Madeline and the Coffee Beans

[porphyry]

I know I've written before about Madeline's unusual capacity for empathy given she's only five years old, but I didn't think it would extend to coffee beans too.

Lately, she's been on a Mommy kick. She doesn't want to go anywhere without me. "Wherever you are, I want to go," she says.

When I grocery shop, I just like to go in, get what I need and leave. I don't like shopping too much. But since I now have a sidekick everywhere I go, Madeline makes shopping slower but also, I must admit, more fun.

She especially likes to stand in the cart and help grind coffee beans. Last time we went shopping, she poured in the beans, set the grinder to finest grind, and started the machine.

Madeline peered over the top of the grinder, watching the beans slowly get lower.

"They're getting all cut up!" she commented.

"You can't brew a bean, Madeline," I said.

She watched for a bit more, and then said, "Help us! Help us!" Thus expressing her sympathy for the beans.

She's also taken to walking rather funny sometimes.

"Why are you doing that, Madeline?" I asked her.

"That's you, Mama," she replied. "You waddle like a penguin, so I am too."

"That's nice, Madeline," I said, wondering if this really weren't mockery.

"Oh, my back! My back!" she said.

Comments

[claidheamhmor]

Awww, so cute!

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

After half a minute here starts a funny lecture on penguins. (This is part of an old comedy radio show. The contestants tell lies and include five items of truth that the other ones try to spot for points.)

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me, as if your daughter was very conscientious about you not only as her mother but that of a new family member. They do look like little (coffee) beans for starters, sort of, don´t they? On those before-on-earth pictures, I mean;) Very sweet of her, anyway.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

She is sweet.

By the way, I personally enjoyed the montage of Tom Petty clips you put up, much to Malkhos's chagrin.

I have always thought Tom Petty was underrated.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

She certainly seems to be an unusal, outwardly still small person, just like your son.
Haha,
that I find funny! "Can´t have them all" as the saying goes and Mr. malkhos taste, goes I believe, more in the classic or possibly early jazz etc. direction, if I am not entirely wrongly informed.

Our father found it interesting to listen to much of my sister´s early, excellent to this day, pop, rock and experimental record collection and started liking the humour of Sparks Eno and Kraftwerk, he also liked The Penguin Café Orchestra for instance though his own education was purely classic and his favourites were Beethoven, Mozart, et al.

Personally, I love not keeping to one genre when it comes to liking music though I guess it is like with taste in other ways; one does prefer certain things to others. But there is so much good music out there and often, as with Petty, it is incredibly underrated, indeed. Maybe because it doesn´t immediately fit into one single genre, like the ten kids (they really were teens, most of them) I heard play a tremendous mixture of soul, funk, hip hop, jazz and whatnot. Spreading such joy at playing and singing. Tom Petty has, of course, never flirted with success for its own sake as most do today and still he landed one or the other so-called "hit".