Beam me up Mommy!!

This cracks me up every time.

I was never much of a Star Trek fan, but I do know what "Beam me up Scotty" refers to.

Lauren has a great vocabulary and can pronounce most words pretty well. Still, some words don't always come out very clearly. So when she has her arms outstretched asking to be picked up she'll say, "Bring me up Mommy!", which sounds an awful lot like, "Beam me up Mommy!".

Excuse me waiter, there's a fly in my blouse

So I'm riding home and suddenly an insect of some sort flies down my blouse and starts buzzing around.

Zut alors! 

This is not a good situation to be in while both hands are on the handle bars trying to negotiate traffic. I do manage to waft my blouse with one hand and the insect finally frees itself. Phew...  accident averted. 

Conversation about dinner

My daughter is a very fussy eater. She can eat her weight in pasta and cereal, but will ignore food she's not interested in, which is just about everything other than pasta and cereal and some very select meats and one kind of vegetable. No big surprise from someone her age, but I still persist in trying to get her to eat new foods. Here's a conversation we had recently about what we should have for dinner.


Me: Lauren, would you like rice or couscous?

Lauren: Sausage!

Me: OK, with your sausage, would you like rice or couscous?

Lauren: Cucumber!

Me: OK, with your sausage and cucumber would you like rice or couscous?

Pause ... smile ...

Lauren: I don't know!

A few minutes later...

Me: Lauren, would you like pasta with your sausage and cucumber?

Lauren: Ummm, yup!

Well played little girl, well played.

My favourite food

Well, this is a first. From the mouth of a toddler that doesn't care much about eating unless it's pasta or cereal, while eating lunch today came the words, "Mmmmmm... my favourite food!" followed by "I love to eat!" Of course she was eating meatballs, which I suppose is one of her favourite things to eat aside from pasta and cereal.

I took a chance on something new and bought some chicken noodle soup while out grocery shopping. I thought it might help with her cough and sniffles. Later at dinner I just served up a little bit and low and behold she took a bite and liked it - Eureka!! I have a suspicion that she eats noodle soup at daycare because she was pretty keen when I mentioned earlier that we were having it for dinner.

True to form, however, she spat out the celery and picked out the lumps of chicken and carrot. Ah well...

Dear Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature,

Don't think that I can't see those rain clouds hovering up there in the sky. Please blow them away.

The sky was beautiful this morning (thank you) and I did not hear the weatherman mention anything about rain for this afternoon, so I did not pack an umbrella and I am wearing pants that will turn transparent when wet. My blouse will likely turn transparent too. Transparent is really not a good look for me.

Feel free to bring on the rain anytime after 5:30 pm. My sunflowers would love it.

Thanks much,
Caroline

Stink strikes again. Thank goodness for Albert's

It must be Thursday. I mentioned in a previous post about the stink on St. Clair Av W. Well sure enough as I rode to work this AM, the whiff was in the air.

What I didn't mention last time is that there is relief from the stink in the form of the delicious smells wafting from Albert's Real Jamaica Foods on St.Clair @ Vaughan Rd.

Albert's has been serving up West Indian delights in this location for well over 10 years, and more recently has been soothing my nostrils with wonderful smells of soup, curried chicken, roti and patties. Even at 7:30am in 30 degree heat I want to eat it all up. Unfortunately I'm always in too much of a hurry for a pit stop - and the doors don't open until 11am.

I think I'll pop in for bite this weekend and say thanks for saving my nose once again.

Cookies!

My daughter makes the best imaginary chocolate cookies, cake and tea EVER! I think she's going to be a master baker when she grows up.