βMom, I want to see animals.β
Daniella: I want to go home to Enugu, mom when is the airport ready?
Me: they will make an announcement and we leave. I also need to go home.
Daniella: Mom, I need a vacation trip and I want to see animals too. Can we go and see animals?
Me: Mama, I am cooking an animal nu, come and see it. I have goat in the pot right here and youβre asking to go far to see an animal? That will cost us money going to Bronx zoo.
Daniella: noooooo, goat is meat and not an animal. I want to see animals. I want to see Zebra, monkey, and real animals, we saw at the farm and zoo.
Me: you mean that kind of school trip I joined in? That one we paid for?
Daniella: yes mom.
Me: nwata, I wonβt pay penny for you to see animals ooo. I have paid twice. That money in our local currency will set up an animal farm for us.
Daniella: mom, this is summer and we are not going anywhere, youβre always cooking and writing and reading, and doing Facebook live. Letβs go and see an animal. Daniella wants to see animals.
Me: Daniella we will go on you tube and see the animals and that wonβt cost me a dime. Youβre constantly on animal channel and you still want to see them?
Daniella: this my mom is something else. You tube doesnβt have real animals. We go to the farm or zoo ok?
Me: ok letβs strike a deal. Once the flights resume and we go back home, thereβs an animal market called new artisan market thatβs a short walk from our house in Enugu, we go there and you see live animals. That one wonβt cost me a dime.
Daniella: what type of animals are there? Do they have zebra, elephant and kangaroo?

Me: (rolls my eyes) they have ram, Eghu, (goat) lamb, cow of male and female stock. They also have dogs loitering about.
Daniella: mom, I want to see real animals! Those ones are meat, not animals.
Me: meat. Did you say meat? Ok letβs continue this discussion when I am done cooking ok? Mana note that dog isnβt meat here oo, itβs a pet oo.
Daniella: ok mom. Can I have baby carrots please?
Me: yes go ahead and also go downstairs and be sure your babies are good and please change their diapers and bathe them. (anything to keep her away from this animal zoo visit proposal).
Each child we birth and raise is different. I have raised two before Daniella and sheβs the one that wonβt take no for an answer and I see a lawyer in her but sheβs told me she would want to be a nurse and an ambulance driver!! There goes my Attorney!!
Me too, I want to see animals and not meatππππ
Zika nne, youβre already here for your baby girl, Danny.
ππ π€£. You have your match in that daughter of yours Goz!!
Bubu wants to see real animals biko, not the ones dancing atilogwu inside Maama’s pit of Onugbu soup. πππ€£.
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Wow!!!
I want to see real animals and not meatππππππ.
Mummy pls take Danny to the zoo to see real animals.
ππππ Animals are not meat o.
Yesooooo. I agree with my PA to see real animals lion kangaroo etc Hahaaaa not goat and chicken. No wayππππ
Real animal is different from meat biko.
There is now a different between animal and meat. But then, this makes a lot of sense sha. How can you even say goat is animal?
Lol, Animals are not meatππ.
I trust my Danny baby, she will never take no for answerπ and that’s junior Macopolo, the upcoming indabosky ππ
I am not disappointed at all.
Danny is a just a mini you,she always spells out what she wants from get go.
Pls come home π‘ and see real animals.
Awesome read, made me laugh and admire the innocence of children. Please let’s find a zoo in Enugu. Thank you
She is specific on the type of animals she want to see not meat.
There are animals and there are meat. Goat and ram are certainly meat, not animals. Distinction correctly made by Danny.