Lorena's Food Senses

I might have mentioned how Lorena has always had her senses focused in getting food. Here are some examples. They are all from this week. The senses are hearing, seeing, and smelling.



HEARING 1.

We were coming back from the Tulip festival. Abuánis (grandma) was on the Mei's back row and the girls were naturally in their car seats in the middle. Grandma had been munching on some kettle corn. The girls were listening to a story on CD. After a while, Lorena, in her usual roundabout way asked, "Abuánis, what are you doing?". She kept asking, still indirectly, so grandma was able to get away from admitting she'd been having popcorn. She however, had to stop eating. On a completely unrelated side note, I really love kettle corn and is probably the food item I'd missed the most if I moved away from here. (Nota para los que no lo conocen. Son palomitas que hacen en ollas gigantes en ferias y eventos. Mientras las hacen les avientan puños de sal y de azúcar. No quedan carameladas, tienen mucho menos azúcar que eso.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_corn



SIGHT 1.

We were having dinner in the patio. Lorena asked, "What are those rounded white things over there?". We hadn't offered them pickled cocktail onions. Neither of them is big on vinegary/acidic foods (but they are getting better with tolerating/enjoying lime).



SMELLING 1

After dinner, the girls were playing and my mom wanted something sweet, just a little something. I found 2 Girl Scouts Thin Mints, and we each had one. Later, we were watching some printed photos (such a rarity!), and Lorena came to look. I had her stand on a chair, so she'd be level with us. Pretty soon she asked, "what is that smell? when did you eat chocolate? Why wasn't I offered?".



HEARING 2.

The girls had not watched TV at all this week, so they sat down to watch a movie yesterday afternoon. We were talking about who knows what and had said galletas that means both cookies and crackers. She immediately came out to ask,""who is talking about galletas, what galletas are you talking about?.