To Life and To Love: My Daughter, The Tentacle

Did you know that the plural of octopus is “octopuses”, not “octopi” ?

This was a complete and total shock as well as a serious life disappointment to me as I have always referred to these 2 eyed, 8 arm, venomous, intelligent and highly flexible invertebrates as “octopi.”

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But apparently “octopi” is a culinary dish that is obtained by placing an octopus or octopuses into a pie shell.

And adding an “e” to the end.

Octopie

If you are planning to make this sure-to-be-delightful dinner surprise, be sure to boil the octopus properly before pie-ing otherwise it will be slimy, smelly and inky.

But as you can see, octopie is all about the tentacles.

So I imagine those are the yummiest part of the octopus/es.

And certainly the most talented part of the octopus,

as evidenced by this conversation between my daughter and myself:

Me: How was Little Mermaid rehearsal today?

Daughter: Oh my gosh! You are not going to believe this! I got an extra part because someone dropped out.

Me: No way! That's so awesome!

Daughter: I know! So guess what part I got?

Me: I give up.

Daughter: I get to be a TENTACLE! And we get to shimmy like this (daughter demonstrates excellent fluid-ic tentacular shimmy motion) and we get to wear morph suits!

Me: You're totally going to steal the show!

Daughter: Yep. Pretty much.

I am so proud.

And I'm like officially and Octo-mom or something.

So, in celebration of this super amazing accomplishment I give you these tentacular show stoppers.