Macaroni Messages

Macaroni Messages.... or not.

This weekend we celebrated my Mickey's nieces' birthdays.   The two girls, although 7 years apart in age, are only a week or so separated by birth date.  So, the family celebrates them together.  Mickey's sister Christine made a lot of seafood and spaghetti and clams. Considering that the little kids tend to prefer their spaghetti with butter, that was on the menu as well.

 Little Caroline had a bowl of buttered 'ronis and  a spoon and was enjoying her dinner.  At about the halfway point through her dish, she stopped and pointed out to me that on the side of the bowl some of the cut up spaghetti had formed what looked like the letters "C", "R" and "O".  I told her that I thought her macaroni was trying to tell her something. At first she was wracking her little four year old brain for answers. Her grandmother and I looked at the macaroni message and noticed that the letters formed part of her name, even in the right order.

Caroline took her spoon, stirred up all the spaghetti, including the "letters" on the side of the bowl and made sure they were completely erased and that the pasta was once again in random patterns in her bowl.  Then, she looked up at me and said, "It's not saying anything now."