play with your food now and then

There's something so incredibly heartwarming about sharing a bowl of trail mix with your 22-month old. I loved watching him pick his favorites out of the mixture. I think the variety of textures and color attracted him. He caught on after a few times of me telling him, that the M&Ms were too hard for him to eat. So instead, he'd pick around them and eat dried apricots, pineapple and the occasional raisin.
It was amusing that he steered clear of peanuts, as if he knew they were also a no-no.
A few minutes later, he went to pick out another M&M, but just to point out to me that it was green. He proceeded to hand me every green candy piece. Good idea, Drake. So we sat at our tall kitchen table, his feet dangling above the floor by a mile, and sorted M&M's by color out of our trail mix bowl.
And I wouldn't have rather done anything else in this world at 2pm on my day off work.