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alexandra_thornA while back, the kid discovered _Phoebe and Her Unicorn_ (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2012/04/29) at the library, and later on we began checking them out. Marigold and Phoebe quickly became characters in our regular make believe games, and when I was playing Marigold, I particularly relished the opportunity to strike a pose (with one front hoof lifted) and say:
This kind of became a thing outside of make believes too, and it was kind of driving the kid crazy for a while, but when we returned to Phoebe and Her Unicorn more recently, she has embraced it and has started doing it herself.
One day I asked the kid what she wanted for lunch, and she tossed her head and answered,
"I'll see what I can do," I said.
"Wait... what do you mean?" asked the kid.
So, here's what I did:
And of course, now *this* was a thing, so a few days later...
My spouse said I had to photograph that one, but I think that was mostly because he'd imagined that I'd somehow made it out of a single piece of bread. He was a bit less enthusiastic about the weirdly shaped pieces of bread I'd left in his bread bag...
Later:
And most recently:
Note the oregano sparkles. Also, because my partner's reaction to the previous bread unicorn was obviously a *challenge*, this one actually is from a single slice of bread.
Meanwhile, we've developed a whole mythology around the various stages of eating one of these things.
For example, when nothing but the horn is left, it is Lord Splendid Humility (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2013/02/23). Horn + ear equals Lord Spendid Humility failing to properly conceal his magnificence.
When just the head is present, it is Marigold in a box that is larger on the inside than the outside (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2019/12/25). And the front half of a unicorn, then, is obviously a unicorn stepping through an interdimensional portal (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2020/03/16).
I have also learned from the kid that a unicorn without legs is a narwhal, although this lesson came not from food but from this toy: https://www.michaels.com/unicorn-wooden-3d-puzzle-by-creatology/10602147.html.
And now you know.
This kind of became a thing outside of make believes too, and it was kind of driving the kid crazy for a while, but when we returned to Phoebe and Her Unicorn more recently, she has embraced it and has started doing it herself.
One day I asked the kid what she wanted for lunch, and she tossed her head and answered,
"I'll see what I can do," I said.
"Wait... what do you mean?" asked the kid.
So, here's what I did:
And of course, now *this* was a thing, so a few days later...
My spouse said I had to photograph that one, but I think that was mostly because he'd imagined that I'd somehow made it out of a single piece of bread. He was a bit less enthusiastic about the weirdly shaped pieces of bread I'd left in his bread bag...
Later:
And most recently:
Note the oregano sparkles. Also, because my partner's reaction to the previous bread unicorn was obviously a *challenge*, this one actually is from a single slice of bread.
Meanwhile, we've developed a whole mythology around the various stages of eating one of these things.
For example, when nothing but the horn is left, it is Lord Splendid Humility (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2013/02/23). Horn + ear equals Lord Spendid Humility failing to properly conceal his magnificence.
When just the head is present, it is Marigold in a box that is larger on the inside than the outside (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2019/12/25). And the front half of a unicorn, then, is obviously a unicorn stepping through an interdimensional portal (https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2020/03/16).
I have also learned from the kid that a unicorn without legs is a narwhal, although this lesson came not from food but from this toy: https://www.michaels.com/unicorn-wooden-3d-puzzle-by-creatology/10602147.html.
And now you know.