Out on the front porch
We sit out there most mornings. I drink my coffee, Noah reads and Madison plays on the porch or in the front yard. This morning she wanted to play in the driveway and I reminded her that she would need to put our little orange pylons out at the end. (The rule is that the pylons have to be out whenever a kid is playing so that cars won’t drive in.)
“No!” she screamed. “I want to play on the driveway naked!” (She means on a driveway free of pylons; not that she wants to play on the driveway in her birthday suit.)
She has become the most voracious picky eater I know. She likes almost everything — for the first few bites. All that enthusiasm but no matter how small the portion, she doesn’t eat it all. I may resort to giving her grapes one at a time.
Served with her request (cheese and crackers, banana peeled just so, pretzals in her favorite bowl), she will take a few bites and then look up, smiling politely, “I want something else,” she says. “Something dee-yishus.”
She doesn’t like anything to be fixed, wiped, tucked or straightened.
“I yike snot on my nose!”
“I want tangie [tangled] hair!”
“Don’t fix my shorts!”
She is enthusiastic about everything. She wakes up like this: “I want! I want! I want … SOMESING!”
If she hears us saying, “I think I will go…” or “I’m about to…” or “Do you want…?” she will burst in from wherever she is to say, “I go, too!” “I help!” “I want, too!” She doesn’t want to miss anything. You would think that all of this hunger for life would make getting her to sleep hard and most of the time, you’d be wrong. (Last night was an exception.) She usually will go and get a blanket herself and tell us she needs “rock-rock” now.
“I seepy,” she says. “I want a nap.”
Her favorite blank is one she calls her “ovaltine blanket.” I have no idea why; she must have had hot chocolate while she was sitting with it once.
Right now she and Noah are sitting on the couch. He’s playing his Music Maker and she’s sitting next to him listening nicely and trying to sing along.
All I can say is: aww. I miss those days. I do, I do.
She sounds adorable.
Madison and I have a lot in common. Talking of naked, I saw a naked woman walking down the street the other day, all wet like she was walking from the shower to her bedroom but it was on the street in broad daylight……it was hilarious. She looked so normal about it…..
I love your Noah and Madison stories, and I can see them being really cute together too. Him all big brother and scientific.