Thursday, September 21, 2006

Drinking fountains

I have mentioned that Elisabeth feels constrained to sit on every rock in the park to take a picture. She has a similar obsession with drinking fountains - not to take pictures, but to drink. Of course, she's intent on being able to push the button herself and drink at the same time. This one, with its step, makes that possible.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

graham, is it hygienic to drink from these fountains? shouldn't you be discouraging elizabeth?

Graham said...

Those are good questions. We're trying to walk the line between neurotic parents (which we all too frequently are) and careless parents (which happens occasionally). So we have hygiene rules for how to use the water fountain, and there are some that are off-limits for hygiene reasons. And I almost always carry a water bottle with me so that we have a good alternative to the water fountain - but it doesn't dampen her interest!