Maddie & Micah took a school field trip to a farm yesterday. It was quite a significant emotional event for Maddie. She brought back a tiny potato (perhaps 1 inch in diameter) and the smallest carrot that I have ever seen. She was over the moon with her new acquisitions.
She named her potato Kartoffel and drew a face on it. She slept with Kartoffel last night after crying herself to sleep because she realized that her time with Kartoffel is limited. Today, she carried it to school in her pocket.
Footnotes:
(1) I should mention that the field trip to a farm is a quintessentially German school thing to do. The kids have also been to bakeries, the local chocolate factory, etc.
(2) Kartoffel is German for... you guessed it.
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And one of Dom's few German vocabulary words that he probaby picked up from Monty Python or whatnot is...kartopfelkopf. What an insult!
I don't know... the boys carried a two foot zucchini all over the western United States. It's dessicated shell is still sitting on a table outside.
She could also try planting it with the hope of many Kartopfels in her future.
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