This is how I woke up this morning.

Ellie: Mom, pretend you are me and you’re driving to see the penguins and it takes a really long time to get there and you ask how much longer a lot and when you get there you have to unbuckle your seat belt and don’t see me at first but I’m a penguin and I don’t move very fast because I’m carrying an egg between my feet and you try to talk to me but you have to talk softly so you don’t scare me and you try to feed me and want to hold the egg but you can’t and you really want to and you tell your mom you want to and she tells you that you can’t because the egg is fragile but you still want to hold it.

I’m so going to have to teach her how to make coffee first.