An Interview

I decided to interview Audrey this morning, so I sat her down on the couch and I sat a couple of feet away in the chair with a notepad and pen.

Mama: What did you do yesterday?
Audrey: play

M: What are you going to do today?
A: I'm having a mommy-Audrey day. I'm going to get down and you're going to rescue me. I need you to do that game, ok? (as she is already climbing over the back of the couch)

M: What is your favorite color?
A: Pink.
M: why?
A: cuz i like pink, cuz it's my favorite paint. lets tell my other favorite colors of paint. hmm, i like purple, i like red, i like blue, i like orange and red and yellow and i like green.

M: Are there any colors you don't like?
A: No.

M: What is your favorite toy?
A: Hmm, lets see - my microphone. Let me tell some other toys. I love a scarf (one from Gigi that is pink eyelash yarn - she wears it all the time around the house as do all her dolls and toys); let me play on the piano and make music and tell things I love. Ok?

M: What is your favorite thing to do?
A: Hmm, to do playing.
M: what kind of playing?
A: hmm, toys.

First skinned knees

On Monday 8 September 2008, poor Audrey got her first skinned knees. And boy was she miserable. She wanted to walk with me to the mailbox, which is about 4 houses up the sidewalk, but she didn't have any shoes on. Our sidewalks are really quite clean, so I said that was fine as long as she was careful. And she was. Then on our way back to the house, she wanted to run down the hill, so I told her that running down the hill was not a good idea with bare feet because she could really stub her toes if she wasn't careful. She said she would be careful and off she went. Again, she was really careful, until she was at our house, when she turned around and was saying, See Mommy, I was careful, and wham down she went. Two skinned knees, a stubbed toe and a skinned top of foot later...

Poor Audrey was beside herself. She cried for probably an hour (I wish I was exaggerating) and the rest of the evening she was close to tears. She wouldn't walk on her legs because she didn't want to straighten her knees and I had a hard time evening washing them off because she wouldn't take her hands off of them.

Several days and a few nice scabs later, things were going well at Gymboree yesterday. She was trying to actually go across the monkey bars, but then thought better of it and dropped back onto the ladder. She landed on bottom rung of the ladder. Right, on the bottom of her foot and has been limping ever since. After her fall, I offered to take her home and she would hear none of it, she wanted to play. She tried crawling, but that hurt her skinned knees, so she is doing this funny little limp to get around and also asking us to carry her a lot.

No binky for me.

Last night for the first time, Audrey slept without her binky!! It all started because she has a little rash on the lower side of her mouth going onto her chin. Well, she has had it for a week or so, and I think the binky is partially to blame. So I showed it to Audrey in the mirror after her bath and told her that we needed her to sleep without her binky so that it could heal. She agreed to that and went right to bed without it. Of course, we still gave her the "flipping nose binky", but at least she wasn't sucking on a binky. She slept all night without incident.

I am so glad she is such a reasonable kid. I mean, she just agreed to sleep sans binky, because she could see that there was a good reason for me asking. And that was that, no fuss, no fight, no crying, just talking and hugging.