While she did an impressive job coloring, the task at which she did not perform impressively today was that of eating her dinner. As you can see in the following videos, my attempts to encourage her to eat were completely dismissed. It was only the threat of an early bedtime, an hour after dinner was put on the table before her, that finally convinced her it might be worth choking down some food. Mmm. Cold sausage and peas.
Julia did a stellar job on her dinner, and earned herself not one but TWO desserts. Unlike her sister, she wisely figured out that eating while the food is hot is way more fulfilling than eating after it has been sitting out for an hour. But that's not surprising, coming from a future archaeologist. Below, she pontificates on the benefits and drawbacks of underground exploration:
JULIA: (in the midst of watching "Dora the Explorer") Mama, I'd really like to know what it's like underground. I would like it to be the kind of underground that's not dangerous that doesn't have things that hurt you when you fall and parts of your body hit it, or whack it. Like, if there were rocks, and you trip over them, then you could get cut or maybe bleeding, or..... nails, except underground doesn't have nails. Let's see, let's see, let's see... maybe cement? I would like to discover dinosaur bones that someone never found before. I would like to see if, like, the dirt is, like, the kind of dirt that can grow vegetables in it, like if I see parts of the kind of vegetables that grow underground, like carrots, or seeds, or weeds. But, Mama, I have to ask you something. Do pumpkins grow underground?
While she was disappointed that pumpkins do not, in fact, grown underground, that did not deter her from her exploratory plans. After all, there are still all those carrots and seeds and weeds and dinosaur bones to see.
When did you get new chairs??
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