Katherine had prunes today - her first fruit - so you might think this is going to be a gross baby food story, but no. She loved the prunes far too much to squander their yumminess on mess-making.
This story is about buying flounder stuffed with crab meat from Trader Joe's. (A 6-ounce serving for $2.99. Such a deal, right?) I explained to Owen that "stuffed" meant that there was one food inside another. In this case, there was crab inside the flounder. First he wanted to see the crab. "Well, we can't see it now. We'll see it once we've cooked it and cut into the fish."
"Crab have claws?" "Yes, but they take off the claws before they stuff the crab in the fish."
"Mommy and baby crab inside." Umm...
"Daddy crab talking. Crab have mouths."
Thankfully, by this point we were ready to check out, which provided a helpful distraction. If he'd kept going, describing how much the crabs were looking forward to their family vacation to North Carolina*, I might have had to put it back.
* North Carolina is Owen's go-to spot these days. When a spaceship blasts off, it's almost always going to North Carolina. When Owen crawls underneath Katherine's crib or a blanket, he will declare himself to be in a cave in North Carolina.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Unappetizing
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great. we left north carolina for jobs in maryland years ago and all this time have been thinking we would retire back there. but in the last decade it seems like everybody i talk to also wants to retire to nc, even people who have never been there. i'm worried it'll be full by the time i want to go. and now i find out that all of nasa is headed there! just great.
david
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