Friday, May 11, 2007

A Booty Call

I don't know about everyone else, but my experience is that all boys like it. It's firm, round, very accessible, and whets an appetite for something more. You notice it's plump shapliness from across the room. When holding it, all a boy wants to do is sink his little teeth into it and go chomp. Enjoying it together is a bonding experience. Yes, nothing quite beats a nice, sweet piece of Veggie Booty.

If you thought something else was going to be written here, then you need to find a different blog.

Helios and Hesperos are huge fans of Robert's American Gourmet Veggie Booty. This is a (somewhat) healthy snack of rice and corn puffs blended with spinach, kale, cabbage, and carrot. They're naturally tinged green and uncomfortably bring to the forefront an immediate reaction that is reminiscent of how Sam's victim felt in the epic, tell-all biography, Green Eggs and Ham. But, like Sam's victim learned, snacking on something green isn't necessarily all that bad and neither are these (although who wants spinach/corn breath?). They're a favorite snack for the kidlets, and always illicit a rivulet of drool and clamoring for "green popcorn" whenever they're seen.

These pictures show them hunkering together to share a little bit of the "green gold" which they greedily hoard to themselves. Helios is a relatively delicate eater who joyfully pops one in at a time in rapid-fire sequence. Hesperos isn't nearly as dexterous or playful yet -- at only nine months, his eating practices are strictly utilitarian -- so he ham-fists 3-4 pieces into his mouth simultaneously. After feasting, Hesperos toppled over like a Weeble (actually, Weebles wobble but they don't fall down, but just go with me on this anyway) and proceeded to drop Veggie Booty on his belly and giggle as it fell. Helios, on the other hand, decided to flirt with the camera and drape himself in chain links (that he hasn't been interested in since he was 16 months...until Hesperos started chasing after them).


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