Laowai

That’s what my kids are consuming this week.

I’ll explain…

We have three doors out onto our patio and I like to have them open in the summer. Especially on cool summer mornings, I like to let the house fill with fresh air. Well Claire has learned to climb the step and go out onto the patio. It’s not dangerous – there aren’t any stairs or places for her to fall. It’s just that she has developed a taste for dirt. Twice now, I’ve looked away for a couple minutes and found her out there shoving handfuls of dirt from a pot into her mouth. Would you like some water to wash that down Love?

Yesterday we went swimming. We always have to buy an ice cream after swimming for a while. They have a big poster with all the ice cream novelties – I let Bea choose what she wants. Yesterday she wanted to try the Coupe au Kirsch. Kirsch means cherry – I know that – looks like a cup of cherry ice cream. So she ate more than half of it before I took a taste. And good God I said -that’s ice cream with cherry liquor! Oh golly – what kind of Mom am I? It never occurred to me that there would be alcohol in there. The people at the ice cream counter must have thought the Coupe au Kirch was for me. Bea seemed fine and after a while my friend and I had a really good laugh.

Here they are dirt and liquor and all.: