My Seussical Life for 2004 October 19 (entry 1)

(11) Tue Oct 19 2004 20:05 Charmer: Atticus said, as he sat down at the dinner table, "Wow, Mom, look at this neat soup you made." He sampled it and then continued, "Mmmmm, this is so delicious!" And it was lentil soup! How lucky am I?

Comments:

Posted by Frances at Tue Oct 19 2004 18:15

I hope you stay this lucky when he is twelve!

Posted by Susie at Tue Oct 19 2004 20:04

John's niece (the one who knows all the big words) is famous in our family for saying "Mom, can I have more broccoli?" We will be lucky if our kids take after me in the veggie dept.

Posted by Alyson at Wed Oct 20 2004 13:54

And John accuses you of being a pickey eater. Very curious.

Posted by Kristen at Wed Oct 20 2004 14:46

When I was in KS I asked Atticus what his favorite food was and he said broccoli. When we went shopping he also had to have that dyecot sp? in his cart to buy. He even knew it was a dyecot, and I had no idea what it was. After sampleing it though he said it made his throat itchy was it? So cute.

Posted by Susie at Wed Oct 20 2004 14:49

John just prefers his veggies cooked. I like them any way.

Posted by Alyson at Wed Oct 20 2004 17:51

Daikon. He loves the idea of diakon (a Japanese radish), but not the reality.

Posted by Frances at Wed Oct 20 2004 20:16

Roy used to be the same way. For some reason he loved the idea of daikon, so he grew them to give to a friend who would eat them. He grew a lot of things that weren't really practical just because he liked the sound of them or something. Like peanuts.

Posted by Alyson at Thu Oct 21 2004 11:06

Peanuts?!? Wow. Did you ever eat them?

Posted by Susie at Thu Oct 21 2004 14:53

Remember how we used to grow loofah? I was thinking about that the other day. How weird!

Posted by Frances at Thu Oct 21 2004 18:09

Peanuts: Yes. We never got very many. I made 1/4 cup of the freshest, most wonderful peanut butter once though.

Loofas: Leonard grew them one year to make Christmas gifts for the aunts. Was that ever a weird vine!

Posted by Alyson at Fri Oct 22 2004 05:48

Never heard of loofa, but looked it up on google. Guess I have seen them in Bath and Body Works types of stores. Didn't know those "sponges" could be grown in a garden. Cool.