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After reading a book about turtles, MDF asked about what different animals eat. We got around to fish, and she asked if they eat mosquitoes. I told her they did, if they mosquitoes were in a pond big enough to hold fish.

As we drank water before she went to bed, she had an idea.

“Dad. If we take the sand out of my turtle… and put water in it… we could have a pond.”

“That’s a good idea,” I said.

“Then we could have sharks, and…” She never did say what else we would put in the pond, I guess the sharks took up all the room.

Among Other Things

After CEF had a bath tonight she was rubbing her feet on her bouncy seat like she often does, and she either developed a blister, or popped one that was already there. Anyway, once it popped, she would cry every time it touched something. It didn’t help that she when she gets mad, she likes to kick her feet. It was only getting worse.

So after changing her diaper, I put a band-aid over the open blister. It helped some, though if she kicks her feet hard enough it still seems to hurt. MDF was very concerned about the band-aid (as well as the blister), and she kept telling CEF that the band-aid would help the blister feel better.

Tonight I realized that I had forgotten to get dog food. So I took MDF and CEF with me to Food Lion. I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage them both and a bag of dog food, but I ended up putting CEF in a shopping cart — with the seat cover that CDF bought for MDF — and let MDF ride on the front. We made it through the store all right, and the girls got a complement from the cashier who thought they were both cute.

MDF has been riding her tricycle a lot recently. This past weekend we walked to the Library to return some books. MDF rode along with us on her trike. It was the farthest she has ever gone, but she did a great job.

I had to keep telling her to stay beside the edge of the road, but she has been getting better. Tonight she was able to stay at the side of the road by herself as we went down Campbell and Hayes streets. She even knew to get off into the grass when a car came by us.

An adorable thing she does while riding is she rings her little bell as she goes along and then waves to someone (or no one) around — CDF, CEF, or myself most of the time.

Update: the other night CDF and MDF were fooling around and I took some pictures.

Two Girls on a Tricycle

This evening I took MDF and CEF to McDonalds to support a friends school (buy something and part of the proceeds goes to the school). After realizing the school was in Rocky Point but the restaurant was in Burgaw (I’ll not go into that) we eventually arrived.

At first everything was OK. We talked to the Harrells briefly and ordered M&M Fluries. But on the way to the playground outside MDF spotted the “Hamburgler” and that purple guy. They were walking around the store greeting the children, but MDF didn’t want anything to do with them. She started crying and I had to hurry her out.

She tried to play on the playground, but she spotted the costumed people going out to the road and I heard her start wailing somewhere up in the jungle gym. She made it out and had to sit with me for a while and eat some ice cream.

When her friend started boasting about hugging the purple guy, it just made MDF want to go home. So we made our way through the store — she covered her eyes as we passed the “Hamburgler” — and said goodbye to the Harrell family. A couple of people tried to talk to CEF, but that just made her cry. So I hurried them both out of the restaurant and back to the van.

On the way home MDF said she would just laugh at those silly people, but she didn’t want to go back. We could go home and finish our ice cream instead.