Category Archives: food

Please Don’t Ask About My Mini Watermelon

Please don’t ask me about my mini watermelon. It’s kind of personal, you know?

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Using your head

We were sitting down to a tasty hot-dog dinner a few nights ago, and Magoo was having a difficult time with the mustard. He simply could not squeeze it hard enough to get it to squirt. “Let me help you, … Continue reading

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Food for Wanda

Wanda doesn’t so much like to nurse any more. If the room is dark and silent and she is extremely tired but not deliriously tired, she will maybe possibly nurse. She is more likely to nurse if we are lying … Continue reading

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What’s In a Name?

Magoo came home from a birthday party last week and told me they’d eaten cheese-flavored cake. After a brief retch as I imagined a block of cheddar covered in frosting, I figured out what he was talking about. Why does … Continue reading

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Swabbing the Neck

Although she’s been known to ingest her fair share of playing cards in her day, Wanda has discerning tastes when it comes to real food. She likes her rice cereal done just so and only sometimes. She enjoys fruits and … Continue reading

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Starting Solids… Again

Why is it that I have total solid food amnesia? “The one thing so far that’s really thrown me for a loop is starting the little bub-jub on solid foods. I cannot for the life of me remember what I’m … Continue reading

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