Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Food Fun

I'm in a phase of life where I find myself loving the experience of food. I love to squeeze it and throw it, smear it and shovel it, see what it feels like in my ear and on my head, and sometimes I like to eat it.

Earlier today I gave myself peanut butter lipstick - mom loves that game. She makes me toast (or sometimes it's just bread, as I'm not always patient enough to wait for the toaster to pop) and slathers peanut butter all over it - my favorite! She cuts it into pieces and hands me two - always two at a time. I don't like to have a free hand when I'm supposed to be eating. Dad always gives me three pieces at first: one for me to shove in my mouth right away (whole), and one for each hand to hold. Up until a few days ago I would eat this treat somewhat normally, but lately I've found out how fun and sticky peanut butter is. One of my favorite things to do with it now is to wipe the peanut buttery side of the toast all over my mouth and then suck the peanut butter off my lips. Sometimes I set the toast on my tray peanut butter side up and then "dip" other things in it, like crackers or dried fruit. Unfortunately my dad had brought the camera to work to take some pictures of tile he'd installed, so mom couldn't capture that one to share with you.

The picture included here is from dinner tonight. I really liked the buttered biscuits, and they were fun to smear on my face and head too. I got very buttery. Dad said I should watch out b/c mom already wants to gobble me up, so by smearing butter all over I just got tastier. The real fun tonight was with the macaroni noodle salad though. I liked sucking the flavor off the noodles & then spitting them back out. The best part about the noodles was holding a few in each hand and squeezing really hard, as you can see above. Mom & dad both laughed, but they didn't try it themselves.

Do you realize what you're missing, folks? Noodle squeezing is a good game!
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1 comment:

Tyler Connoley said...

My favorite thing when I was your age was licorice. I would smear it all over my face.

Squeezing pasta is fun. I speak from experience. And when you're older, you can have the same kind of fun mixing meatloaf with your hands.