A million years ago back when it was April, Aurora and Dad
planted seeds in our back yard. So
carefully did she place each one into the dirt as her farther showed her. Between every two or three seeds
she wiped her “sticky hands” on a towel; she was going through a clean stage. As the last seed was planted she
declared “all done” and coerced Dad into a couple rounds of Ring Around the Gnome.
How excited she
was when after months of being told she could only pet the plants and could not
pull them up Dad finally gave her to go ahead to yoink up the fluffy green tops
to reveal – a carrot!
How excited I was when she then began voluntarily eating
said carrots which you and I know to be a vegetable, a food group much scorned
by my itty bitty.
She also fed the carrots to her various toys
and used the tops to play with the cat.
