Rachel and Food
First of all, Happy Thanksgiving!
I am happy to have such a sensitive wife and precocious child with a discerning palate.
Here is proof.
I am told that in Rachel's classroom, they were asking each child his or her favorite foods.
"Cookies" said one.
"Juice" said another.
"Crackers" replied the next.
"Cereal" was the next answer.
Then came Rachel's turn.
Without hesitation, she said, "Chicken alfredo."
Her teacher and teacher's assistant still are laughing about it weeks later.
Just to reinforce the point about the discerning palate, the other day my wife took Rachel in for a followup doctor's appointment.
It turns out she is over her former ailment, but now has a bad cold.
During the course of the exam, she looks at Dr. Smith and says, "I go get some grouper from Athen's Pizza."
"She eats grouper?" asked the doctor.
"She loves grouper!" replied my wife.
Don't get the wrong idea though. If you mention chocolate around my little girl, she'll flash you a big grin.
If you offer her M & M's, make sure you include the blue ones.
And for goodness sakes, if she and mommy bring you a chocolate/vanilla swirl with Oreos on it from TCBY, the least you can do is eat it right away. The other night, I moved mine to the freezer and Rachel was practically apoplectic.
"Can I have your Oreos, daddy?"
"You eat your yogurt now?"
"I want your Oreos."
"Now, daddy? Now?"
The chocolate obsession is genetic, from both sides of the family.
Rachel is also a bread fiend. Bread, croutons, rolls,you name it.
One afternoon, we were at a restaurant and she had an array of 8 or 9 croutons in front of her. She reached for one of mine.
"Rachel, why do you need my croutons when you have 8 or 9 of your own?"
"He wants to be with his friends," was the reply.
Hard to argue with that logic!
1 Comments:
I was really impressed with her food choices... until you mentioned the blue M&Ms. Infidel. ;-)
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