Several months ago we realized that Julia liked coffee. I think she picked up a coffee cup that had a few drops of coffee left in it and that is how it all began. We started letting her have little sips of our coffee after it had cooled off to lukewarm. She quickly learned that the beeping coffee maker meant that the coffee was ready. She would no longer wait until our coffee cooled off and would beg, climb, whine, cry, whatever it took to get coffee.
We finally decided that while it is not the best drink of choice, a little coffee is not going to hurt Julia any. My biggest concern was the caffeine. But we finally gave in... Now when we have coffee at home on the weekends, Julia gets some coffee of her very own in her sippy cup. I fill the sippy cup 1/4 of the way with coffee, add some cream and sugar (the only way she likes it, just like mommy), and add about another 1/4 of cold water. This way it is watered down and she does not get as much caffeine, and the cold water cools it off to where she does not have to wait for it. She gets the biggest smile on her face when you finally hand her the sippy cup of coffee. She is so happy and I think she secretly thinks that she is a big person now.
Then this morning I saw what Julia was going to become in about 3-4 years. I had stopped on my way to work (after dropping Julia off at daycare) for gas and coffee. I was getting my coffee when a mother and a little boy, probably about 5, came in. The mother got a cup of coffee and the little boy also got a cup and wanted his mother to fill it up. The mother said to the boy "Not today. Remember, you can only get coffee on the days you don't go to school."!!!!! I am going to assume that the boy was probably in kindergarten (which is part-time here), or maybe late pre-school. I had to hold back the laughter since I can TOTALLY see Julia doing that in 3-4 years!! I had to call up Jerrod to tell him what I just saw. He laughed and agreed, that will be Julia in a few years!!
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