I’ve been fascinated lately about the general proclivity for people to use “even” numbers. It’s all so arbitrary — heating up a cup of coffee for 50 seconds. Why 50? Why not 52? I was thinking about this other day while I was heating up Maja’s milk for 44 seconds. Why 44? Because then I just have to push one button twice, and not move my hand around on the number pad. I know it sounds dumb — but really, who says I have to use 40 or 45?
This brings me to another number related topic that I was talking to Richard about the other day — birthdays. I am a “prime number” baby — I was born on a prime # day in a prime # month in a prime # year. Richard, on the other hand, is a totally even numbered baby in day, month & year. Our children, interestingly, are a mix: Maja has 2 evens and 1 prime; Madeleine has 2 primes and 1 dividable odd.
I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on this with regards to personality types?
I’m feeling exceptionally tired today. I think it’s the sudden onset of warm weather (forecasting 28C today) … and the fact that I was roused at 4:30am by a small child in need of her mama and I never got back to sleep.
Anyway, I am happy to say that my order from Ichibankan arrived yesterday! I totally know I don’t NEED any of this stuff… but it’s so damn cute. The little character bentos (monkey, rabbit, bear) are for Maja & (eventually) Madeleine’s snacks.
At this point I will do anything to get Maja to eat. You don’t believe me that she doesn’t eat? Well, let me say that she had 2 bites of her birthday cake and then decided she didn’t want anymore. This is CAKE we’re talking about!!!
For her birthday Maja also got this bento, the Cinnamaroll character from Hello Kitty! This is the only bento thing I could find in Chinatown (in a store that was dedicated to Hello Kitty gear — it was surreal). We packed her morning snack in this yesterday and she loved it. So, today Richard packed her morning snack in the Monkey bento from above and I packed her afternoon snack in Cinnamaroll. Hopefully she eats it!
Stumble It!
