Chocolate Day! (or as most people call it, Wednesday).

Do your chores. Churn that butter. And maybe, just maybe, you can have chocolate!

Even though Nana could not make it down, even though she did not like it when I told her she couldn't have ice cream for breakfast and even though we forgot to bring a "friend" (a doll, or a stuffed animal, or a gray and black rubber mouse named Brownie) on our trips out of the house today, Annelise was awesome and earned back her chocolate from yesterday.

Damn I'm sweet! NOW GIVE ME SOME CHOCOLATE!

So we're at the "Pop Store", I get my Big Gulp and we go to the candy aisle and BAM! $1.09 for a regular Kit-Kat bar! One-fricking-oh-nine! No more "Pop Store" candy. Plan ahead and have the reward trip coincide with a trip to Wal*Mart.

Live and learn, from a 4 year old, I guess.

No Chocolate for You!

Sucks to be Annelise. Pitch a fit and lose your treats.

Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm! Mmmm! Thems chocolates sure would have been good! But you just had to pitch a fit at the library and lose your little girl Slurpee/doughnut/chocolates didn't you? Oh well, live, and hopefully learn.

Yes. It's true. Bad kids get no chocolate. Now straighten up and fly right or you'll get nothing and like it!

Candyland the Game is Such a Tease

Played Candyland with Annelise today. They give you a two turn penalty if you land on licorice. A penalty! In real life if you land on licorice (and by licorice I mean Red Vines. None of that Twizzler crap) you win. Period! What in the hell are we teaching kids?! To fear the Awesome Red Bounty? The only reason you miss a turn would be that you are too busy eatting licorice, and the game did not come with any candy (tease!), so screw you Candyland and your whacked misconceptions of "good" and "evil" candy!

Besides the playing a stupid game we also went to the "Pop Store", 7-11, where she found a penny in the parking lot and wanted to use it to buy some chocolate. She would have never known that the "Pop Store" had chocolate if the apes that shop there had lined up along the registers towards the back instead of back into the candy isle (when you line up perpendicular to the check out people have to walk through the line, which is bad, while lining up parallel causes no such issues). Well, she was OK with no chocolate. It's Monday and that's not a treat day. I told her she could choose that as her treat on Tuesday and she was quite happy, but confused that a penny just would not cut it as payment.

A Proper Line. See, No Chocolates to Tempt Little Ones.

We also took a nap, watched some Sponge Bob, ate some fruit and cheese and mailed some pictures to Grandma.

Annelise is 4 Today. So That's Only 364 of These to Go

My little girl turned 4 today. For the next year I will document my life as her father. She is awesome as a daughter. Let me at least come close to that as her dad.

I guess being a parent is also like being a robot. Pretty sweet!