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Tag Archives: nutrition
Classic Caterpickles: “Why can’t cats drink milk?”
I need a day to catch up on some things. You know what that means… Time for a Classic Caterpickle. For a girl obsessed with cats, The Four-Year-Old is oddly indifferent to the Disney movie The Aristocats. I suspect this … Continue reading
Questions I Am Not Qualified to Answer: Entry #45091
After seeing me toss the remains of her bag of freeze-dried fruit on the ground for the birds, The Five-Year-Old reached for a discarded slice of apple. Mommyo, urgently: “Don’t eat that!” The Five-Year-Old, curiously: “Why?” Mommyo, definitively: “You’ll get … Continue reading
Reason #463 to stop eating fast food
As if we really needed another one. The Five-Year-Old, on hearing that another fast food run wasn’t on the docket until at least June: “Mommyo, not eating fast food makes me uncomfortable.” Mommyo: “Why?” The Five-Year-Old: “Because I’m losing my … Continue reading
This week’s menu, courtesy of The Five-Year-Old
The Five-Year-Old, helpfully as her mother works on the family’s dinner plans for the week. “That’s what we eat in Kitty World. Dead fish or injured fish. Or baby turkeys.”
“When cats eat mice, do they eat the bones?”
Remember when I said I had a backlog of Mulberry-related incidents to work through? This is what I meant. The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, would Mulberry eat mice?” Mommyo: “Yes.” The Four-Year-Old: “Why?” Mommyo: “Because she’s a cat. Cats eat mice.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Ask the iPhone, Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged bones, cats, mice, Mulberry, nutrition
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I can’t believe I just said that
Overheard in the Caterpickles Transport Pod (while parked in a parking lot): Mommyo: “The Four-Year-Old, don’t eat the whole bag of M&Ms or you won’t have room for your hot dog.” Mommyo immediately begins banging her head against the steering … Continue reading
“What does gy-normously hungry mean?”
Mommyo, as she prepared to dish out The Four-Year-Old’s oatmeal: “The Four-Year-Old, are you a little hungry, very hungry, or so enormously hungry you could eat a tiger?” The Four-Year-Old, with great enthusiasm: “Gy-normously hungry, Mommyo. I could eat something … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Eating, food, Funny stuff my daughter says, nutrition
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Breakfast at Caterpickles II
Rainy winter mornings when The Four-Year-Old wakes up early and there are guests in the house simply scream for complicated breakfasts. This is especially fun when The Four-Year-Old is in a measuring and stirring sort of mood. On this particular … Continue reading
In which my daughter puts her dinosaur vocabulary to good use
The Four-Year-Old, watching her mother carve up a roast chicken: “Please can I not eat the chicken, Mommyo?” Mommyo, who is proud of how the chicken came out and who kind of wants to hear her daughter exclaim over its … Continue reading
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