Teaching fiscal responsibility

Today Steve & Nina spent a long time throwing pennies into a fountain, and she kept insisting "More throw money! More throw pennies!" We had to get extra change. What a great life lesson - toss your cash in the water!

She's very sassy - this morning we were all talking about the giant fish tank in the lobby of Steve's office (which Nina likes to watch), until she looked at us solemnly and announced "All done fish talk." She basically told us to shut up. She is really getting bossy, I have to say - I was glancing at a magazine while she pretended to eat dinner, and she pushed it out of my hand, saying "No read book, Mama." Feisty!

Here is what I offered her for dinner:
mac & cheese
grapes
mandarin oranges
broccoli
peas
corn niblets
cheese toast
mini pizza bagel

Here is what she actually ate:
6 raisins
2 pretzels

How long can a human survive on such a diet? Please advise.

I promised news about other topics - Steve is enjoying his job. He is a copywriter at a small agency here, and since they have only a few writers, he gets to work on a diversity of projects (including lizard food!), and write for various media (print, radio, online, reptiles, etc). Seems like it's a nice change for him from doing solely interactive stuff for one or two clients.

Just this week, I finally sent off my North Carolina medical license application, so hopefully sometime this decade I'll be able to seek some work here. Of course the medical board website is plastered with warnings not to expect the approval procedure to take less than 4-6 months! So I may have a spell of enforced unemployment coming up, which I don't mind so much. Nina and I are having a good time running around town.

I'm pretty tired, and the house is pretty messy, so I'd better go. AND I have an episode of Sunset Tan to catch up on.

PS Congratulations to my friend Alexa - mother of two, as of yesterday, when her son Ben was born! Yay!!