Arnie the Robo-spudnut

One of our favorite children's books is Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller (as you know i love food and many of my favorite childrens books are also about food- like the all time greatest Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) For the last week or so smart son (age 5) has wanted to make doughnuts- "just like Arnie" (with working eyes, arms and legs) I told him I didn't think we had those "parts" he said we could make bendable robotic ones!!! I told hm maybe his engineer dad could but I didn't take any robotics classes in grad school and he'd have to settle for non- animated, non- robodonuts. So last night after our family night lesson on our family value of excellence (which was very well recieved- love those days) we made spudnuts (potato doughnuts)- Smart son was more than skeptical about potatoes in doughnuts- but spudnuts were a tradition in my family-- and a tribute to my idaho pioneering paternal grandparetns, great grandparents-- and in the end he loved them and now loves saying "Do you know another word for potato is spud?"