Two Potatoes and a Lemon

Savannah loves cooking dinner for us in her little kitchen. She delivers it complete with plates, silverware, “tea,” and a sing-songy “Dinner’s ready!” The food is always HOT and must be described as such and blown on so that it’s cool enough to eat. For the longest time, as in weeks and weeks, she cooked the same food every day – two potatoes and a lemon. Yes, you read that right. Please don’t ask me why, out of a entire tub of a wide variety of plastic food, she choose those three items, especially since she hates potatoes. The inner workings of the mind of a two-year-old is a sheer mystery.

Thankfully, my parents gave her a plastic dessert set for Christmas, so lately we’ve been “eating” lots of birthday cake. Amazingly, my birthday seems to happen a lot more frequently than it used to…