Wednesday, 20 May 2009

• figuring it all out...

  Having kids and watching them figure out the world around them is such a HOOT!  Last night, we took the girls to El Torito Grill for dinner for our "family night out".   We decided to valet park the car since it was cheaper than the hourly rate.  As the the valet drove away to park our car Tiana asks, "He's borrowing our car, Mommy?"  HAHAHA!!!

  It's especially funny to see Tiana try to master restaurant etiquette -- sometimes sweet and appropriate, sometimes just a little off... 

  We were nearing the end of our meal when I asked T,

  Me: "Tiana would you like another tortilla?" 

  T: "Oh, no thank you.  You go ahead and enjoy it, Mommy.  I'm all done, thank you though!" -- SWEET

   

  As we were finishing, the manager came over to ask how everything was.  He was dressed just like the food servers except his name tag said "Manager".  Of course, Tiana can't read the name tag...

  Tiana says: "It was really good, thank you." 

  ...and proceeds to hand her finished plate to him.  After pretending to admire her leftover mess, he set the plate back down on the table.  I'm sure T was thinking "no, silly, you're supposed to clear the plates off the table now!"  Uh...nevermind that he's the ****manager**** -- A LITTLE OFF 

  Then, when we were getting up to leave, the busboy was clearing off the table next to us.  Tiana says to him, "It was delicious, thank you!"  And when she got no response (he was pretty focused on his task and indifferent to customer service issues), she said it louder, "IT WAS DELICIOUS, THANK YOU!" ... "THANK YOU!!!" (Like, "Isn't he supposed to say 'you're welcome", or "thank YOU", or something??) -- SWEET ...AND A LITTLE OFF.

  And of course, we have our Aliyah, who waves and says "AHHhhhhhHHHhhhhhh!" ("hi") to everyone and everything in sight.  Then screams really loudly in impatient protest when the Cheerios run out.

  Eating out was never this much fun before kids!!!

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  Aliyah is astounding us all with how fast she's learning and how communicative she is. 

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