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While killing some time before dinner this afternoon, I let the kids hang out over by a water fountain.  We were waiting for Jason to arrive from work, and we had just finished running a few errands.  The kids LOVED watching the fountain and when the water shot up high, Aidan would raise his arms above his head and squeal and cackle with delight.  They were all so excited!  They asked me for pennies to throw in the fountain, and as luck would have it, I had filled their little coin holders up with pennies from Jason's console on the way home from DC/Baltimore.  So I handed each of them their respective coin purses filled with 12 pennies apiece, and I gave them the choice of throwing all their pennies in now or saving some for later.  Emory took hers in fistfuls and launched them into the water while Aidan threw his in one at a time.  Alanna threw in a couple and asked me to put hers away for another time.  After dinner, we spent a few more minutes at the fountain.  Emory and Alanna asked for their pennies, and Emory was out of luck.  She took it in stride though.  Alanna took her little purse and tossed a penny into the water.  Then she ran to me and said "I wished to be a mermaid!"  When I asked her why, she said she wanted to swim under the water.  We talked briefly about the possibility of swimming lessons, and then she went to throw in another penny.  She returned and reported that she had wished for goggles.   Then she asked me to put the rest of her pennies away again.  I guess I'll be researching swimming lessons!