Emil laughed as Joey bounced around the fresh produce section, looking for the items on his list. They’d just gotten into Woodruff and were getting the groceries. He’d gotten Lotte’s permission to get a toy for Joey if he was good, but only after they’d found everything on the list.
“Emil, look, are these good tomatoes?” Joey called, and Emil went to examine the selection.
“What does your list say?” he asked, even though he knew.
“It has a picture of many little tomatoes, I think. Baby tomatoes?” He frowned as he turned the list toward Emil.
“Yeah, and those are a different shape too. Look, here’s the different shapes of tomatoes you normally see, okay.” He demonstrated the difference between the shapes and then the sizes, and finally Joey picked a box of Roma.
They had about half of
