The restauranteur and the penguin

Graham has been coming up with very elaborate restaurant fantasies in the tub the past few nights. Last night, he made up a restaurant called Tripesmites and served a house specialty cocktail that contained coconut and pineapple. It was bathwater, served in a little green bucket with a three-horned whistle for a straw. I was encouraged to "drink" it and tell him what I thought. I told him it was exquisite! delicious! et cetera, and then he was very proud. He told me they also served mac n cheese and french fries with ketchup. A toddler's dream restaurant.

Tonight in the tub again, we were dining at Two Feets (or was it "tous fixe"?), where the menus were "in french, Mom" Okay...but it was a dubiously french restaurant that only served iced tea -- pronounced "aaahhs-tee" by my little Texan boy!

Today finally arrived for Paige. Today was the sneak preview showing of the new animated film Happy Feet. Our little penguin girl was absolutely beside herself for this event. She wore her Halloween penguin costume, with penguin stickers on it, took her penguin finger puppet and toy, and sat spellbound through the entire ~90min show munching on popcorn as her eyes took in the big screen. Graham, the tender heart, had a bit of a hard time with the scary scenes, especially when the sea lion tries to eat the penguin. But we all left happy and dancing like the star of the show.