We headed to Cracker Barrel for dinner a few nights ago. It's always a little challenging to corral Ellie through the little store in the front of the restaurant to get to our table, and then keep her focused on eating. So our way of bribing her is that if she is a good girl and eats her dinner, then she can pick out one special thing in the store before we go home.
Of course she was a good girl, so her choice from the store was a dinosaur egg. When we got home I was reading the directions a little more closely and realized that it said it had to sit submerged in water for 36-48 hours before it would hatch....WHAT?!!!! 36-48 hours is an eternity for a 2 year old who is ready to play with her new treasure right away. Luckily she was in a patient mood that day, so we put it in the bowl of water and waited....and waited....and waited.
About 10 minutes into the waiting, I asked her, "Don't you want to get down from the stool? It's going to be a long time before the dinosaur hatches from the egg." Our sweet, little nurturer responded with, "No. I have to stay here. I gotta watch my egg or if it hatches it won't have a mommy."
She did eventually get down from the counter since the dinosaur was making such slow progress. By the next day, when the dino had just begun to break through the shell, Ellie's patience had just about come to an end, so Daddy helped it along the rest of the way. While it was a cool toy and a neat process to watch, I think we'll choose a different toy the next time we visit Cracker Barrel....probably a toy with immediate play potential.
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