We went to The Village Pub to celebrate Uncle Jason’s birthday tonight and it turned out to be a fancier restaurant than we had expected. Luckily, Janie has had 2 1/2 years of training and really pulled through for us tonight. She sat quietly in her highchair the whole time and we all had a very enjoyable meal together. It started out with profiteroles that came out at the beginning of dinner. Janie really liked them – probably because they had cheese inside. She even got an extra one because Ama did not want hers.
Janie also got her very own dish – mushroom consomme, which had lots of tiny mushrooms and three dumplings floating around.
She scooped the broth very carefully and made sure there weren’t any mushrooms on the spoon. She’s a purist when it comes to broth.
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The spoon had to make a long journey to her mouth and she even tried to guard the broth with her other hand. Mommy later fished out all the mushrooms and she ate the all one-by-one. The dumplings were yummy too!
Once she was finished with her soup, she said she was “all done”. To keep herself entertained, Mommy handed her a stack of flash cards. We didn’t think she would be so excited but she WAS and spent the next 30 minutes playing with them.
She even got the whole family involved! It looked like a Tiger Mom’s version of poker.
We ordered a chocolate souffle for dessert and Janie helped sing “Happy Birthday”. This is a busy birthday season for our family!
Meanwhile, the waitress brought out a scoop of vanilla ice cream for our little diner.
As you can see, she slurped the bowl clean. This is one lucky girl…2 scoops of ice cream in one day!