Cheers

It's dinner time.

Tahlia has some V-8 Fusion. There is a red line of liquid on her chin from what I like to call the hole in her lip where the juice has flown out of her mouth and into her Bjorn bib. She mostly drinks water, but recently, after a particularly difficult bout of constipation, she has taken to drinking the V-8. The constipation was caused by too great a quantity of frozen corn and hard peas. The hard peas are also frozen, thus hard. Many may wonder how we know that these vegetables caused the constipation, and the answer is simple; we saw it. Prior to throwing the poop residing in her Bjorn potty into the big potty, I glanced to see a solid inch of corn and peas preceded by something other than the yellow and green vegetables and followed also by something not yellow and green. As you can imagine, it was difficult to pass.

This all connects to the V-8 as we told her that it helps her to poop. So far, we've been right.

So there she sits drinking her V-8. Mommy has some too.

Suddenly, Tahlia turns to Mommy and says, "Mama, let's do cheers."

She holds up her cup, and I watch as plastic lid-less cup and highball glass clink together. Mommy says cheers. Tahlia smiles, pleased with herself.