The Governor has hand-foot-mouth disease. Which is contagious, but only to toddlers, because us older types have developed a resistance to the Coxsackie virus, which is its cause. He has been miserable for the past 36 hours, because the virus causes sores to erupt in the mouth and they are fairly painful and eating is quite a feat for him.
So I'm going to tell Conan when he comes home from volleyball tonight that The Governor ate a whole cup of pudding, he will be totally stunned and impressed. Imagine! An entire CUP of pudding. And he thought his cup of Jello was so great.
Anyway, unbeknownst to me, The Governor got into the box of animal crackers that was sitting on the kitchen table and apparently ate one--so that means we are getting there. Once the sores heal, the kid will be ravenous.
Incidentally, hand-foot-mouth disease is different from foot-and-mouth disease, which is plagues livestock and is kinda deadly, or something like that.