Yesterday Iris and I had a great visit to Pike Place Market. Our main goal was to get some mussels for dinner and check out the new bun bakery, and we were successful. Mostly. Usually we buy from Pure Food Fish, but I figured mussels are mussels, so we bought from Pike Place Fish, the fish-throwing […]
Last night I was off tutoring, and I left Laurie and Iris with plenty of carnitas. Laurie told Iris she was going to heat some up. Iris: And some brussels sprouts. Laurie: No, just pork and tortillas tonight. Iris: And brussels sprouts! In a few years when Iris decides […]
There’s an oft-repeated canard about feeding kids that says you may need to offer a child a new food five or ten or fifteen times before they like it. I’d dismissed this as untestable and, well, a canard, but maybe I was wrong. As I’ve mentioned, Laurie and I love brussels sprouts, and we always keep […]
Today Laurie and I packed Iris off to the park with my dad and did our taxes. When we were done, I called to check in: Iris: Iris eating Dorothys. And macaroni! “Dorothys” is what she calls Goldfish crackers, because Elmo’s fish is named Dorothy. The macaroni, it turned out, was from a Guy Savoy […]
Iris has these dinosaur decals that stick to the sides of the tub. She was sticking the pterodactyl and the triceratops together. Iris: Iris making a sandwich. She looks at it. Iris: That sandwich too sudsy to eat.