Tastes.
Different tastes.
Sweet. Good.
Sour. Bah. Bitter. Bah.
Eat? Not Eat?
Mommy!
Mommy good.
Daddy good.
Stranger. Bah.
Make sound. Voice sound. Fun.
Mamamamamamamamamam.
You know, of all the holydays, I like Easter best. Egg hunting! Egg hunting's fun. Especially egg hunting with Uncle Nigel.
He always hits the eggs real good but gives clues as to where they are. You have to solve the clues to find them.
Once all we got was an x-ray of an chocolate egg in the lung of some body. Aunt Lily didn't like that one at all.
"That's just gross." She said. She almost didn't let Sanjay go searching. He's Lily and Uncle Bug's son. He's eight now.
But Bug let him go searching. "But not in the crypt or in autopsy." He added. "That x-ray looks fake anyway. There must be some other clue in there."
But what?
It wasn't until I looked into the file of a case mom and Nige were working on. It was the same x-ray, but with a bullet instead of the egg. So I thought, maybe the eggs are, were a bullet could be? And they were. One under the microscope Nige used for bullet comparison (it had a cover, so we didn't see it), one in an evidence bag between other bagged bullets, labelled 'egg bullet', and one in the tank used to fired comparison bullets in, packed water resist.
That was fun!
Lily says I always loved finding things. She says I loved that baby game where you put your hands in front of your face and pretend you're not there. Pretty stupid game I think, but babies are stupid, so I guess it works. Lily asserts I never got tired of that as a baby.
Finding things is fun. Not so much the accidental way where you just come across something. Though that can be fun, too. What's real fun is to figure out something and then get rewarded by finding a thing. Or a secret. Anything.
Guess that's why I like science. It's about figuring out how things work. And then you know it and can try figure out more difficult things.
And it is quite a lot like what mom and dad do at work. They figure out who killed someone. There's no more powerful figuring out than that.
When I'm grown I'm going to do that too. I just don't know how yet.
There's so many ways. There's cops, detectives, like dad, who question people and try to get them to tell everything. And they are the ones who arrest the bad guys. Then there's medical examiners, like mom, who look at the victim and figure out what happened to them. And not to forget criminalists like Nigel, who collect evidence and figure out what happened based on that. There are lots of different criminalists. Nigel works for the ME's office, that is with mom and the others. But there are also the CSIs. The crime scene investigators. They work more with the police.
All of them are important. And I'll be part of one of these groups.
