Lunch with Love
Not for the squeamish
Graphic material follows
We eat in the garden as the 'outside' campaign continues before the Fall puts the campaign on the back burner until next year. I present him with his ‘Burrito,’ a tortilla folded and positively engulfed in Nutella, more of a chocolate crepe if truth be told. The price hike from $2:79 to $4:89 for the only type of bread he will eat, makes diet expansion a priority. He examines it closely but makes no attempt to eat it whatsoever. As usual, I adopt my ‘not interested nor anxious’ expression. Whilst he makes rooster noises at the end of the table, I encourage the others to eat their more conventional versions.
“You didn’t put cheese in it didya Mom?” asks the intolerant one.
“Not in yours dear.”
“Mom?”
“Yes dear?”
“If ya kiss more dan one girl……….. d’ya get poisoned?”
“Um…..no I don't think so…….but…..er……nevermind, we'll talk about that later. Now eat up your Burrito.”
I make a mental note to follow up on any number of possibilities from blind alleys and cul-de-sacs, to faithfulness and fickleness.
“I……don like……dah………guaca yuk.”
“Guacomole! It's very good for you. Just remember…..green is good.”
I contemplate the age old difficulty, his inability to say the word 'green,' although he has no difficulty whatsoever with any other hue from Emerald, all the way through to Myrtle and British Racing.
“Mom?”
“Yes dear?”
“Whats zis?”
“Dill and Basil. All fresh, highly nutritious.”
“Mom?”
“Yes dear?”
“Praying Mantises.”
“What about them?”
“Are dey……..vegetarians?”
“Mainly, although they're not averse to the odd bite of cannibalism here and there.”
“What’s for dessert?”
“Er…..I’ve not thought that far ahead yet.”
“Do I have to eat all ofit Mom?”
“Yes, every scrap.”
“Can I still have dessert if I don’t?”
“I’m afraid not.”
“Doesn’t matter anyways. I expect desserts summat disgusting too.”
“Actually…….we’ll be having………” I troll through my mental image of the fridge contents. I have decided to have it tattooed on the inside of my cranium…….. “er……strawberries.”
“Cream? Do we get to have cream too?”
“Possibly.”
“Can I check if we’ve got any?”
“When your plate is empty.”
My ‘image’ is hazy. I can’t quite get the cream into focus.”
“I am a good sharer.”
“Indeed you are.”
“I'm gonna share …….my Burrito……..with love.”
“Ah. That's so delightful. Very thoughtful but I think maybe you had better eat it yourself, build you up a bit.”
“But she is having……only………..a teeny tiny appetite.”
“Um……who has a teeny tiny appetite?”
“Love.”
“Er………?”
“I am give my pet a name.”
“A name? Which pet?”
“Look! ….. Here she is. ……. Mom,…… meet Love.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
Brilliant! Sharing is good right
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 am
Aack! Not good with bugs. Not at all.
Glad he is though, what a lovely sharer, even if it is with a creepy scary gigantic bug.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 am
Well the bug campaign is going quite well! I think they have won that one!
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 am
He is absolutely adorable!
Let us know the follow up questions and answer to whether kissing a girl is poisonous or not….
Love you,
Suzy
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 am
Our kids must be drinking the same water. My Rocky is completely obsessed with praying mantises lately, watching and rewatching YouTube videos of the fickle little creatures mating. The female, he tells me with delight, often bites the head of the male mid-coitus, and then continues to mate with him. No wonder our lads fear the girls, with images like this in their heads.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Oops. I meant head “off”, not “of”. So off-put by the insects “effing” that I forgot an “eff”.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 am
Does Love have a setup in the house as well? She sure seems to have taken a liking to him! Love that last photo!
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
You should have known there was a motive for the ‘Praying Mantis’ question.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
so sweet and disgusting all in one. I don’t mind a bug or two, but I draw the line on them touching my face. Apparently, facial defenses are down at your house.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
That is so cool! So does Love love Nutella?
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
WOW!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Oh my gosh…I think we have his clone living in our house…your son’s clone, I mean.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I love praying mantises. Mantids are carnivorous, by the way. They eat all sorts of nasty insects, like mosquitos, aphids, flies, beetles, moths… people actually release them to control pest insects. And they are beautiful! Love is simply wonderful! A gorgeous specimen.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
That’s fabulous!
October 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
LOVE? OMG, I love love!
October 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
what a special little bloke he is!
October 5th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
awwww–and sharing with Love : )
October 6th, 2008 at 6:21 am
did love like the nutella burrito?
what great picture too!
October 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Praying Mantis.. so damn cool.
We have had had one outside our front steps/doorway for the past week. I noticed it looked all bloated and then the next day I noticed an egg sack at the top of my doorway. Now the temp dropped and I am wondering if that is *not good*
The kids have enjoyed the praying mantis and its bright GREEN (alex’s favorite color) and watching it eat moths and various buggies that like our porch light. I tried to take pics of it the other day to blog about but the pics didn’t come out well at all.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am
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