Today I was reading Can You Dance Like a Peacock? with Phoebe and she got really excited about the flamingo page.
"Can we get some flamingos at the store?" she asked.
"I...don't know...that you can really get flamingos at the store...?" I said.
"You can!"
"Where?"
"Just at the store! They have them! But not usually pink flamingos."
"Yeah, see...I didn't think they had pink flamingos at the store."
"They have yellow flamingos. Can we get those?"
"Yellow flamingos?"
"Yes! I love them!"
"These are a...food?"
"Yes! Yellow flamingos—you know!"
"I...do not know. Can you tell me more about them?"
"Yellow flamingos are so yummy! And they have that big seed inside—you know! You give it to me so I can chew on it! It's so yummy!"
"Are you talking about...just...plain...mangoes?"
"Flamingos—yes! Yellow flamingos! I love them!"
"We can probably get some mangoes at the store sometime, yes."
Flamingos are only 'pink' when they've eaten enough brine shrimp, as their color is diet-dependent. So a yellow/white/gray flamingo is perfectly acceptable... although we certainly don't see them often. Ha ha.
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