It's hard being not quite three.

We rarely eat out, but today, Lauren, Claire and I met Andy at Akita for lunch. Wow. That's quite a feat. Lauren was thrilled. First of all to be eating at a restaurant, and second to see daddy in the middle of the day. Akita is a sushi place and Lauren loved the little plates and dish for soy sauce. She was thrilled to drink water out of a straw from a real glass. (no kids cups here...not that she'd be expecting that anyway...) Lunch went smoothly. Claire slept most of the way through. THEN...the waitress took away the food AND plates! Horrors... Lauren cried and cried, "I want it back!" We had to explain to her that we only borrow dishes at restaurants, and that we only buy the food that they come on. Luckily, I had a bag of goldfish in the diaper bag. The helped, but only a little. Poor thing talked about it for hours afterwards... "the lady took my dishes.."

There is so much to learn about how the world works.