Lady Picasso
What do you know, I can color! Every once in the while Daddy puts crayons in my hands and hopes I’ll start scribbling away. I never understood what he meant until one night at Marie Callender’s. After seating us, the hostess just up and assumed I was an avid colorist and plopped a coloring book and three crayons in front of me. Daddy and Mommy figured the paper would distract me for a few microseconds while they settled in.
To their surprise I was more intrigued by the crayons than the paper. Daddy showed me how crayons make marks on paper. I figured, yeah, I can do that. So I was busy dragging the crayons all over the paper for much longer than a microsecond. I only tried to eat them once or twice.
Mommy and Daddy are excited there’s a new distraction for me so they don’t have to eat their own food in a mad rush.
On top of all the crayon excitement I even got to try some new food: Cornbread! It agrees with me and I ate it up.
PS. Daddy drew the smiley faces. I’m not that figurative yet. I’m going through my abstract phase.
Dining, Hobbies | Comments (3)Widget and the game of Hats
If you know me, I like hats. Auntie Karen visited and played the game of Hats with me. The rules are simple: You put as many hats on my head as you can, before I take them off. Unkie Jon watched, but he’s not very good at the game.
Some of my hats are new, but a lot of my hats are hand-me-downs from Ah-Ma’s nice neighbor Shirley. She’s a Grandma, too, but her grandkids are big now.
Unkie Jon and Auntie Karen babysat me Saturday night so Mommy and Daddy could go to a party. I’m sure the party was boring without me.
Someday I’ll be invited to more parties than I can attend and I’ll have to chose between new and popular acquaintances and long-time childhood friends who’ve loyally stood by me. It will be a tough choice, but a lady’s life is full of tough choices. I’ll stop by my old friend’s parties early, then skip out and arrive fashionably late to the popular shindigs. With any luck I’ll be able to juggle my popularity without putting undo strain on my old relationships in case I need help finishing my Science Fair Project that I’ve been too busy to do since I was helping plan the Box Social.
