An Appetite for Life
Hey, have we mentioned that Ben likes to eat? Of course he does. He'll try almost anything. Spicy food of any kind is right out, but eggs, cereal, fruits, most meats (including fish), some vegetables (yes, that's spinach he's eating with Kari), and ice cream. All of the major food groups. His "comfort" food of choice seems to be noodles (pasta, rice noodles, chicken noodle soup, etc.). While rice is the staple of Southern China, noodles are big in the North where he's from.
And oh yeah, he flipped out the day last week that some kid showed up at our front door with a cardboard box containing a pizza. He loves pizza. Since that magical day, he's been playing "pizza guy," a game where he knocks on the door and hands you an invisible pizza in exchange for real money (a nickel or so usually works).
See? In addition to our language and culture, he's picking up the whole capitalism thing, too.
Comments
Actually Ken, this is perfectly natural as captialism arrived from the east with Marco Polo in the same bag that noodles and (better keep an eye on him) gunpowder! A bit of history for ya.
Posted by: Seth | March 23, 2006 5:28 AM
Is he eating all your Blueberry Morning?
Posted by: Doug | March 23, 2006 8:55 AM
nobody does noodles like the asians. my kinda kid.
Posted by: jane | March 24, 2006 12:02 AM
Ok what happened. Remember those pizza nights? Amazing how good those pizzas in cardboard boxes start to taste when there is a time factor. Not to mention I need to make 4-6 pizzas from scratch or order 2. I know this sounds cheap but the kids love it. English muffin pizzas or even better tortilla pizza. Glad to hear all is well.
Posted by: Kay | March 24, 2006 7:25 AM
Luckily, I don't think Ben's crazy about the blueberry morning. We have an understanding of what is Ben's cereal and what is Baba's cereal...
And pizza night. We've made our pizza crust from scratch only once so far. That's gonna hafta be Sunday night from now on. Or, in tribute to Douglas Dining Center, maybe we'll do pizza bagels.
Posted by: ken | March 24, 2006 7:34 PM