ask a mexican

Benji and I went to go see the writer of "Ask a Mexican" in Berkeley last year when I was super pregnant. This is one of his newest columns in the OC Weekly. I wanted to share.

Why do Mexican parents insist on wrapping their newborn babies in a dozen cobijas in 90-degree heat?
El Chamuco

Dear Demon: Everything is wrapped for Mexicans. Our tamales. Our food inside a tortilla. Ourselves around someone else as we prepare for a cramped trunk ride across the border. Babies get the burrito treatment to protect them from the elements, to transform into a shape better-suited for lugging around, and to ensure the proper crisp their skin needs to achieve that wonderful Mexican mocha-brown.

You can laugh or get mad... whatever you like. We haven't been the best about remembering Soluna's blanket, especially in the summertime. As Benji commented, this may account for her fair skin. heh.