Maybe We Can Teach Him to Eat Them For Real
Every few days, we’ve been letting Eli have a toy from his Christmas stocking. The latest is a basket of plastic vegetables.
Eli isn’t what I’d call a vegetable eater, beyond fries and ketchup and cheese sandwiches, assuming that ketchup is a vegetable. Given that fact, I thought Eli would play with them for a while and then forget about them.
Was I ever wrong. He drags them around the house, dumping them out of their basket and putting them back in. He shoves them in his mouth and spits them back out with a “pbuh” noise. He washes them, thus removing any plastic pesticides or plastic bugs from them.
However, some vegetables are more equal than others. Eli demanded that the vegetables join him in the bath tonight, making a kind of toddler soup with garnish. When I gave them to him, he handed some back to me. “You take these. You take these.” He divided them into two groups:
“Those vegetables are not funny,” he told me. “These vegetables are very good.” He then popped the red pepper in his mouth like a cigar.
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Comment by Tiffany
That made me laugh extremely hard. So cute. Best thing to see after a long day at work.
Posted on December 17, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Comment by Geof F. Morris
I am still laughing over seeing him chomping down on peppers that I’m sure he never would in reality. :chuckle:
Posted on December 17, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Comment by Misty
He has reiterated the difference between “very good” and “not funny” vegetables this morning. Although, I’m pretty sure some of them switched camps overnight.
Posted on December 18, 2006 at 9:12 am
Comment by Joyous
“Every few days, we’ve been letting Eli have a toy from his Christmas stocking.”
You’re celebrating Hannukah! Very slowly.
Personally, I find eggplants hysterical. But maybe that’s just me.
Posted on December 18, 2006 at 1:23 pm