Amelia - coffee shop aficionado

Amelia woke up hungry at six a.m. this morning and asked for some raisins. After a bowl of cereal with raisins, she was fine. She stayed up until nearly her normal nap time and after two hours of sleep woke up hungry again. Her first request of the afternoon was for jelly beans. Now, jelly beans are not a staple in our house. In fact the only time we have had jelly beans available was after Easter. Once I convinced Amelia that there simply were no jelly beans available she asked for her second choice: pound cake.

There for a while I was stopping at Starbuck's with Amelia and picking up tea and pound cake on my way to get Michael from work. I think she became very accustomed to the pound cake and now asks for it every time we go through the drive through at Starbuck's (and sometimes when we go through other drive throughs at places like Steak and Shake).

I was craving a coffee drink and needed to pick something up at Borders so I thought, "Why not?" Amelia and I got our shoes on and went out for pound cake.

When we reached Borders Amelia wandered up and down the aisles while I tried to find her a new "My Little Pony" DVD. As we were walking through the center of the store, Amelia heard the sound of an espresso machine. She visibly perked her ears and took off in the direction of the Seattle's Best cafe. When I caught up to her she was looking at the pastries saying, "Pound cake, pound cake." At one point she even looked at the girl behind the cash register exclaiming, "Pound cake."

Luckily, they had lemon pound cake. So Amelia and I sat in the cafe and she had cake and water while I had a cold coffee drink. It was nice - almost like having lunch with a girlfriend. Though I do wonder if two is too young to be into the coffee scene.

Lisa