Chef Sophie

Watching Sophie eat lunch is never a boring experience and it actually gets more interesting as she gets older. I should have known something was up when she made it quite clear at a very early age that she did not like Peanut Butter and Jelly and a glass of milk like 99.9% of her peers (excluding those with Peanut and Milk allergies - which seems to be a lot). Sophie has never liked sandwiches and has a result has spent most of her young life eating leftovers. But within the last couple of months she has become the fusion cuisine queen. A couple of weeks ago she was happily dipping her peach slices into her clam chowder. I have to admit I refused to try it but she thought it was quite delicious. She also has put goldfish (the snack kind not the fish kind) on top of pizza in lieu of pepperoni or something more traditional. The other day she was having a fairly normal lunch of chicken soup and a glass of milk. Maybe for any other kid it would be traditional but Sophie had to put a spin on it. She went and got two straws from the cabinet and put one straw in her soup and another in her milk and started drinking them both simultaneously. She liked it so much she drank until they were both gone. Thus the picture on todays blog.

Today she took it one step further and dumped her milk into her chicken soup and said "oh, that's how you do it!" "Do what?" I asked. "Make Clam chowder!" she exclaimed excitedly. I was confused since she had combined milk and chicken soup so I looked in the bowl, and indeed, instead of the creamy yellow color I was expecting to see, the liquid was almost greyish in color, much more like a chowder. "What do you know?" I said. "You did make clam chowder". She smiled and ate while I looked on in total wonder.

But, the story doesn't end there. She then took her straw and drank all the liquid out of the bowl. When the liquid was gone she started stuffing a noodle up the straw to try and drink that too. I was looking on in total awe. The noodle was too long for the power of her suck so her plan wasn't working. Then I noticed her bending the straw like she was trying to break the straw and so I said "You can't break the straw like that." She looked at me like I was the stupidest person on earth and said "I'm not trying to break the straw!" And with that she bent the straw again and the NOODLE broke in half, letting the bottom half slip out of the straw and Sophie easily sucked up the top half. Amazing!

Not a day goes by when these kids don't amaze me!