Baby Caviar

Remember when we went to a rock concert and the kids spilled water in my laptop? Well, when I got home, I poured a bunch of rice in a plastic bin and put the laptop in there to dry out. Sort of like a Betty Ford Center for technology. Anyway, the laptop survived, but I never got around to doing anything with that bin of rice.

Until today.

Today, I finally cleaned my room (please don’t sit and try to do the math on how long it’s been since I cleaned my room, we’ll all get depressed) and decided that box of rice had to go. Since it’s been raining for 40 days and 40 nights, I thought I’d be a fun Mommy and let the boys play with the rice before I threw it out. The fellas enjoyed that for about ten minutes, just long enough to fling rice around the playroom. Before the girls woke up from their nap, I very properly swept the floor so the little ones wouldn’t spread the rice to the four corners of the house. But I walked away from the box on the floor and forgot about it…

Until Ian came to report that Ellen had poured a bottle of water into the rice and was stirring it around.

Whoops.

I rounded the corner and Ellen was stirring like a mad woman. Even better, Willa was standing over that box like it was a feeding trough.

And she was making good use of it.

Fistful by fistful, she shoved that slightly moist, uncooked rice into her face. She must have swallowed it whole, since she only has four teeth. And she was happy.

I sat and watched her, laughing, for a few minutes before I removed her from the rice and we started the clean-up. She sharked around, picking up as many grains of rice as she could before Andrew vacuumed them up. Eventually, I had to hold her in my lap so Andrew could clean up without interference. She wasn’t giving up a single grain of That Which She Deemed Edible.

(I apologize that the video is sideways. I always forget that I’m not supposed to turn the camera and then I have no idea how to turn things around on my computer. But I guess it’s fitting… my world is pretty sideways most days, you know?)

At any rate, I had planned on feeding the kids pizza for dinner, but apparently all they need is a diet of uncooked rice and a water bottle. Guess we’re going all Third World around here.

Looks like my days just got a whole lot easier…