Tulip Corn

Julia loves picking out flowers at the grocery store to bring home.  Every time she walks through the grocery store door, she announces "My mama and me like flowers!" How can I resist that?  She is my girl.  Usually she wants something pink, but on the most recent trip, she chose a pot of tulips in a purple foil wrapper that were not yet in bloom.  I set the pot on the kitchen counter and she promptly forgot about it.  After a week or so, I called her over and said, "Julia, look at that!" and just pointed to the yellow tulip that was starting to unfold. She studied it quizzically for a long time and then you could almost see her make up her mind about what it was before she announced "Oh, wow!  My fresh corn has come up.  Let's make it for our dinner!"  I dissolved into laughter because it really did look a bit like an ear of corn now that she mentioned it with the green leaves and the yellow folded cone in the middle.  Love those Iowa girl roots coming out, too.