french fries and ketchup

Elijah likes french fries (who doesn't?), but have recently discovered that he likes them with ketchup, too. Or, should I say, he likes ketchup.

Ryan, aunt Chelsea, Elijah and I went out to eat a couple of days ago. After Elijah ate his chicken and vegetables, we let him have his fries. He happily ate them for a few minutes before he noticed a small cup of ketchup sitting right there on the plate. He took his fork, dipped it into the ketchup, and tasted it. We didn't want him to eat the ketchup straight, so Daddy showed him how to dip fries into it. Elijah took to it right away. He'd dip the fry into the cup with ketchup, and then slowly and carefully suck the ketchup off of it. Then dip the same fry again. Suck the ketchup off. And again, over and over, the same fry, until it was soggy like a wet noodle, at which point we'd give him another fry and continue trying to teach him to bite the dipped end off. But our efforts didn't amount to much.