One of Thumper’s very favorite activities these days is pretending to cook. He’s got a picnic basket full of toy food. He’s got toy utensils, bowls, plates, cups and saucers, a baking sheet. He’s got these fantastic wooden fruits and vegetables that velcro together so you can “cut” them up. He has a favorite knife already. (All these items have been found at yard sales and Goodwill. How I love the toy section at Goodwill…)
The fact that he loves playing with this stuff isn’t remarkable. What’s kind of odd is the way I feel about it. I can’t get enough of the fake food. I arrange it on plates. I dive after the orange and banana peels as soon as they skitter under the couch. When I straighten the living room up at night, the first thing I do is put the utensils back in their yogurt container “crock.” I can’t say any of his other toys appeal to me in quite the same way. The chain saw? The cars? The doll-sized stroller? Nope.
I tried to do an artful arrangement of all of his toy food for this post, and he promptly scattered it all. Hence the photo you did get. He doesn’t usually throw the stuff around, so maybe it was a matter of me trying to get too deliberate with it. When Mommy is styling your toys for a photo shoot, some of the fun’s bound to be lost, yeah? So I gave up and put the camera down and we had a very nice little party. He served plastic cake and invisible coffee. He makes the best invisible coffee I’ve ever had.
So there’s that. Obsessed with my son’s play food. I don’t remember having any play food as a kid, so maybe it’s feeding some thirty-four-year-old longing. Who knows.
Otherwise, not much to report. Obviously I still haven’t gotten the pattern page or links posted. I’m still waiting on activation of pattern sales over on Ravelry.
More important, the writing is going very, very well. I’m on track to finish the first draft of this current novel within a month, I think. And then we’re back to the long, tortuous process of revising. But this time at least I have some small clue of what I’m doing, having now already revised a novel. (Ten drafts of the last one, actually, but who’s counting?)
I am glad that the writing is going well. Do you find any difference between writing in NY and Oregon? I am not a writer (except for boring briefs) so I don’t know what might influence your writing.
I am glad that the writing is going well. Do you find any difference between writing in NY and Oregon? I am not a writer (except for boring briefs) so I don’t know what might influence your writing.
Boy, did your post remind me of how much I enjoyed my daugthers’ play food when they were younger. I was always drawn to it as well and it was definately my favorite thing to pick up (if there can be such a thing). I still can’t bring myself to get rid of a basket in my younger daugther’s room (who is 13) that is full of plastic and wooden food. How silly. Enjoy Thumper!
Boy, did your post remind me of how much I enjoyed my daugthers’ play food when they were younger. I was always drawn to it as well and it was definately my favorite thing to pick up (if there can be such a thing). I still can’t bring myself to get rid of a basket in my younger daugther’s room (who is 13) that is full of plastic and wooden food. How silly. Enjoy Thumper!
Oh, suddenly I remember that time! My youngest is 8 – I too, loved the fake food and the plastic kitchen utensils and the fake eating and the invisible coffee and in the end we collected empty packages and whatever we could find so we had a complete store. We had so much fun, and the most fun was, in a way, not spending money on it!
Oh, suddenly I remember that time! My youngest is 8 – I too, loved the fake food and the plastic kitchen utensils and the fake eating and the invisible coffee and in the end we collected empty packages and whatever we could find so we had a complete store. We had so much fun, and the most fun was, in a way, not spending money on it!
We still have all of Noah and Hannah’s fake food, and happily for all of us, they still play with it quite frequently. I totally get it, as it’s my favorite stuff of theirs.
We still have all of Noah and Hannah’s fake food, and happily for all of us, they still play with it quite frequently. I totally get it, as it’s my favorite stuff of theirs.
I had those wooden velcro vegetables! I LOVED playing with them too!
good luck with the writing!
I had those wooden velcro vegetables! I LOVED playing with them too!
good luck with the writing!
There’s an odd parental compulsion, noted by others, to keep sets of toys “together” and to search for the one missing piece beyond all reason. What do you suppose that’s all about?
Bad rice. That’s what we say when things are going well, re: the writing, when we don’t dare say it out loud for fear of attracting bad karma. Bad rice to you.
There’s an odd parental compulsion, noted by others, to keep sets of toys “together” and to search for the one missing piece beyond all reason. What do you suppose that’s all about?
Bad rice. That’s what we say when things are going well, re: the writing, when we don’t dare say it out loud for fear of attracting bad karma. Bad rice to you.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite Christmas presents was a Betty Crocker kitchen set. It had a little foot pump that made it look like water was boiling. It was utterly fascinating.
Tell Thumper I’ve got a great recipe for invisible popcorn.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite Christmas presents was a Betty Crocker kitchen set. It had a little foot pump that made it look like water was boiling. It was utterly fascinating.
Tell Thumper I’ve got a great recipe for invisible popcorn.
Keep your eye out for the wood food sets–there’s a pizza one and a sushi one and they are so fun!
We still have our toy food (kids are 7 and 9) and they use it with mudpies and sand in the backyard. The stuff is great.
Keep your eye out for the wood food sets–there’s a pizza one and a sushi one and they are so fun!
We still have our toy food (kids are 7 and 9) and they use it with mudpies and sand in the backyard. The stuff is great.
And do I spy a yarn-eatin’ dog in the background there? Why I believe I do! Helloooo, doggie! LTNS!
And do I spy a yarn-eatin’ dog in the background there? Why I believe I do! Helloooo, doggie! LTNS!
I could use a cup of invisible coffee right now.
I’m so glad to hear the writing’s going well!
I could use a cup of invisible coffee right now.
I’m so glad to hear the writing’s going well!