Waiting for the pet rock to hatch ...

The toddler has a pet rock. She calls it an egg and she is waiting for it to hatch. She is convinced it will hatch into something. She doesn't know what yet, she just keeps telling me the baby is curling up inside the egg and it will hatch soon.

She got up this morning and saw it on the kitchen counter. "Oh man! It still hasn't hatched yet!"

Then she thought for a moment and said, "I think it needs a cage, so that when it hatches it won't run away."

Daddy thought maybe a Tupperware bowl would make a nice cage. "Oh! Yes, give me all the square ones" she says. "And all the lids."

"But what can I use for it's bed?"

"And it will need something to eat when it hatches."

So here we have our new pet. In its cage. With a peanut butter cookie for a snack. She's still working on the bed.