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[the_rck]

Delia turned five over the weekend. Scott and I are both kind of amazed that she's that old. It doesn't seem possible. Of course, we also only have hazy memories of what life was like before she came along. She's too embedded in our lives for us to have much sense of life without her. I hope we get to keep her for a very long and happy life.

The birthday meant, though, that Scott and I started running on Thursday and still haven't really had a chance to stop. Friday was Delia's 'pre-school' birthday. We brought in snacks for the class, and everybody sang Happy Birthday to her.

The snacks were supposed to be easy. The class was 'Mud Day,' so dirt cups seemed in order. Those aren't too hard to make, just messy and a pain to transport. Except that I failed to notice that the cool whip was in 12 oz. packages rather than 8 oz. packages. All the other ingredients except the milk were in the right amounts straight out of the package, so I just didn't think to look. That meant that I had half again as much cool whip as I did anything else, and that the pudding mixture was very light gray. I added cocoa powder and a little powdered sugar until the mix was the right color.

We garnished the dirt cups with sour, neon gummy worms (all Scott could find) and kind of bizarre looking flowers made from pull and peel red licorice. We froze the dirt cups overnight so that they could sit out on the counter at pre-school for the hour and a half before the kids ate them without risking going bad. That meant that I had to wait to put the garnishes on until they'd thawed. I worked on shelving books in the library while waiting for the dirt cups to thaw a little.

One little girl refused to eat the dirt cup, only eating the garnishes. When her mother asked about it, she said that she didn't want to eat *dirt*. I asked her if she really thought I'd feed her real dirt, she said no, and her mother explained that it was pudding and Oreos. I think she might have eaten it if we had called it 'pudding and Oreos.' Maybe. Still, it made me laugh a little.

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[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I would have been the little girl who refused. ;) I didn't like eating things that didn't look like what I expected or wanted at that age.

[the_rck]

I expect there were other kids who didn't eat the dirt cups for much that reason. I wasn't there to see it. This little girl just happens to be the one I talked to. Some of them, though, remembered the cups from last year and were fairly enthusiastic.