food art

Today was a typical cold, rainy November day...perfect for a hot bowl of PHO! We took Makayla to 'I Love Pho' and let her try pho for the first time. Yup, you guessed right, she loved it! I guess that's no surprise since she loves rice and pho noodles is just another form of the same thing. But then again, what doesn't she eat?! (she did try something and didn't want more...lemon pulp...hehe...'no thanks mommy!')

So we went to the restaurant half hour before it closed. Mommy and daddy finished their dinner while Mak slowly but ever so diligently shoved and savored pho noodle pieces into her tiny mouth. Mommy was worried that the restaurant owner would kick us out (as we were the last customers there and even the waiter had his dinner and finished) so she started helping Mak finish her noodles. Due to the urgency to finish and leave, noodles were fed rapidly into the direction of Mak's mouth but didn't always end up in there. Instead, they were stuck around her mouth. This gave Mommy an idea...'hey, a sticky baby face makes a great medium for food art!'

Now the urgency to leave was not so urgent anymore. Instead, the following 'living art' was created and appreciated by a little laughter for the next few minutes. We packed up and left shortly after (while Mak was still trying to grab food that was caught in her plastic bib).

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Mix Media: basil leaves, slightly moistened baby face, hungry baby
2010