Executive veto power

Today I began assembling the nine components necessary to build my wall storage unit. Proud of my initial success, and just feeling good overall, I felt the time had come for a trip to Coldstone for ice cream.

Walking into the ice cream shop I asked Amelia what kind of ice cream she wanted. Her response was, "Blue." Now, "blue" ice cream is cotton candy flavored. It isn't as bad as it sounds, but it's not what mommy wants when she's being naughty and eating ice cream. I talked her into trying green (mint) ice cream, but both of us agreed it wasn't that great. She wasn't impressed with cake batter ice cream either (mommy loves that one!). Again Amelia said, "Blue...okay, blue." I asked if she wanted chocolate, but it was nothing doing. I decided this would be a good day for Amelia to get her own kiddy cup of ice cream.

We then moved down to the cabinet of mix-ins. I thought Amelia might like sprinkles, but she really had her heart set on the pretty gumdrops. This is where I stepped in and used my veto power. The last thing Amelia needs is to eat a bunch of gum with her cotton candy ice cream. Instead, she chose M&M's (also pretty) to mix into her blue ice cream. I suspect she liked the M&M's better than the ice cream since she kept asking me to fish them out for her.

Diana had a teeny tiny bit of my chocolate ice cream and seemed to like it pretty well. She would not surrender my spoon once she had a taste, in fact, so I had to keep switching spoons out with her. Today was Diana's six month appointment. Tomorrow I will give you the details as far as her measurements go. I'm sure you all realize she's doing great and growing and developing normally.

Until tomorrow,
Lisa