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Starting Early
"Dada will you open this for me please?" Johnna said as she brought in bottle of lemonade.
"Sure kiddo." He answered as he took the bottle.
He was just about to open it when he realized what it really was.
"Sweetheart you can't have this." He told her.
"Why, it's lemonade." She said.
"I know, but it's lemonade for big people." (It was hard lemonade, left over from a barbecue Nick and Jackie had recently hosted.)
Johnna frowned, she didn't understand.
"How about daddy puts this away and then I'll pour you a glass of lemonade?"
"But me want to drink out of a cup like that like a big girl." She responded as she nodded towards the glass bottle in his hand.
Nick thought for a moment.
"How about I pour it into one of mommy's cups, those are big people cups." He told her.
"Ok." She said happily.
He grinned at her, this parenting thing wasn't so hard sometimes, it was almost like figuring out a puzzle.
Nick walked to the fridge, stuck the glass bottle of lemonade way back in the drawer so the kids wouldn't find it and then got out one of Jackie's plastic to-go coffee cups out of the cupboard, got the pitcher of lemonade out that Jackie had made and then poured it into the to-go cup.
Then, to make it an official big-people cup he stuck the lid on it and then handed it to Johnna.
She grinned happily at him, thrilled that she could drink it like a big girl would.
As she toddled off into the other room Nick chuckled to himself, kids always wanted to do everything like adults.
TBC
