Curiously Strong
October 20th, 2009Sunday night we had a laid-back visit from Sarah-Novelist and Russ. After dinner out, we hung at No. 6 for a bit, and Violet, aka Petty-Thief, soon began disassembling Sarah’s purse. Sarah’s a good sport, so she let Vibble play with everything she pulled out, including a tin of Altoids. Soon enough the tin was open. What’s that you say? Take it away from her? Do you want to keep that arm? Because the Wolfling will bite it right off. And besides, have you ever been within ten feet of an Altoid? STRONG. I think we were all looking forward to the reaction when she got a lick of that crazy concentrated super-mint. You go through a lot with a toddler, and you deserve your fun, you know?
No one was expecting her to be able to tolerate the mints (I certainly can’t—SO STRONG), let alone munch away on three at a time. Grown men can’t do that! By her second fistful of Altoids, we started to snap out of our stunned amazement. But the night was not over …
We bid Sarah and Russ goodbye, and then tried to put Vibble to sleep—for several hours. There’s not much sugar in Altoids, unless you eat like ten and weigh 23 pounds. Finally she did go to sleep, but she woke up later with a stomach ache (from an unrelated cause, we think). So it’s 3 a.m. or something, and she’s whining and crying in our bed, and I hear this weird slurping sound, so I turned on a light, and here this kid is in my bed sucking on an Altoid. Where did she get it? I can only assume she had hidden it in her PJs somewhere, saving it for that middle-of-the-night Crazy Mint craving.
Shlllrrrrp Shlllrrrp.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
This made me laugh and laugh and laugh. I love Altoids. Violet and I have something in common!
October 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Aw, now I know what to get her for her birthday!
October 21st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
She is definitely going to have her own Food Network show–extreme tastes. But then this is the kid who eats curry, Ethiopian food, Chinese food.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
She is definitely going to have her own Food Network show–extreme tastes. But then this is the kid who eats curry, Ethiopian food, Chinese food.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
She is certainly better than I am. I can not stomach Altoid Mints.
She needs her Grandad there cooking for her. Some Etoufe’ (she may actually like it with Crawfish), Jambalaya, Gumbo and Dirty Rice. I figure she will eat anything called Dirty.
But I will bet the acid in the mints are what kept her up at night. She may be tough, but that is still a tiny tummy.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Yeah, about that…so sorry.