“Daddy! Daddy!” come the cries of excitement from the front of the house. “Daddy, you have to see this!”
The zinnias are sprouting. “Unless they’re weeds,” she says stoically as we head back to the front yard.
“It’s entirely possible,” I mumble to myself. But they’re coming up just in the center of the pot, almost certainly zinnias. How would I know? I couldn’t recognize them in full bloom let alone when they’re just sprouting.
More squeals from the backyard moments later: “You have to see this!” The snap dragons’ blooms are opening.
“Are they everything you expected?” I ask as I head up the stairs to inspect them.
“Well, no,” she says with her sly grin. “I was hoping they would snap!”
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