Banana Split in Winter

I look after Stella on Wednesdays and Thursdays. When I turned up at her Kindergarten just after noon, her teacher told me that Stella would like to make me a Banana Split for lunch. I thought how wonderful that this child is thinking of me when she has just been spending a great morning with her peers and teachers.

Throughout the whole journey home, Stella was telling me the steps to making the banana split snack. This is what I taught her before Christmas and she has been having it and serving it to friends throughout Summer. I think she reminded me at least 3 times that she will be in charge of slicing up the banana. Stella is not very confident in splitting the banana into two, lengthwise. So, in her version of the Banana Split Ice-cream dessert, the banana is actually sliced. If the Ice-cream is not too hard, she is quite capable of serving up the whole thing by herself. She doen't know how to use an ice-cream scooper yet. So instead, she uses the standard dinner spoon. Of course it doesn't look professional like its from a proper ice-cream shop but she is only 4 years and 2 months old.

The funny thing is that I wasn't offered my ice-cream when we got home. She was almost asleep. So I let her have the nap first. This turn out to be great because I got the chance to thaw the ice-cream a little before she went about making me a big banana split with chocolate topping.