Shorts are for boys. I like dresses.
And I have worn a dress each day this summer.
It has been my summer of dresses.
Archive for July, 2009
Summer dresses
Posted in Four seasons, Getting dressed, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010 on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toe grip
Posted in Pictures, Swimming, Terrible Threes, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010 on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The swim coach tosses a toy to the bottom of the pool. She wants me to get it.
“Hold your breath. Go under and grab it,” she says.
I lean forward and reach.
When the water tickles my cheek, I scoop up the toy with my toes. I pass the toy from my toes to my hand. [...]
When I grow smaller
Posted in Big kid, Talking, Teething, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, chores, logic on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find a big ring with beads that slide all around it.
What’s this? I ask Mom.
“It’s a teething ring,” Mom says. “You chewed on it when you were a baby.”
I will play with it again, I say, when I grow smaller.
And I place it back in the toy pile. For later.
Shooting flowers
Posted in Four seasons, Pictures, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, logic, tagged gardening, watering on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has not rained in a while. The plants need some water.
So I fill up my squirt gun.
And shoot the flowers.
A tear free shampoo
Posted in Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, logic, sense of humor, tagged bath time on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to wash my hair.
Water and soap drip into my eyes. And it hurts.
Mom makes me wash my hair anyway.
So I come up with a plan for a truly tear free shampoo during bath time.
Goggles. My purple goggles.
It keeps the sting out.
New park in town. But it’s for the dogs.
Posted in Dogs, Talking, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, logic on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our town has a new park. One just for dogs.
Mom and I pack the big dog—the sociable one—in the back of the car. And drive to the new park.
We stop at a very big yard. With a fence all around it.
Mom lets the big dog run all over the yard.
Where’s the park? I ask Mom.
“This [...]
Space alien on a stick
Posted in Pictures, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, tagged parade on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Towns have parades. Parades have candy. I like parades.
So Mom and Dad and I head to a town just south of us for its annual parade.
I am used to parades with themes based on food or seasons of the year. But this town has a cool theme. A space-age theme. It’s all about little green [...]
