Mom and I crawl under my bed covers. I turn on the flashlight.
Mom opens a book. She reads the first page.
About a monster.
Then I flip up a tab. And shine my light on the beast that now stands on the tip top of the page.
I see his shadow on the ceiling.
Ewwww. Scary, I giggle.
“Now [...]
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Flashlight fun
Posted in 3 years 5 months, Big kid, Reading, Year Four: 2009-2010, following directions, tagged bravery on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Basement adventure
Posted in 3 years 5 months, Big kid, Dad, Miss Independent, Talking, Year Four: 2009-2010, tagged bravery on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where’s Dad, I wonder. In his work shop, I think.
I open the door to the basement and head down the stairs. I can’t open the door to the garage. So I turn right.
And walk through basement. In the dark. Past shadows and shapes. Of things.
A big box hums. Loudly. I am scared. I run past [...]
Big kid
Posted in 3 years 5 months, Big kid, Talking, Year Four: 2009-2010 on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can do things by myself, I say to Mom.
You know dat?
Boy babies
Posted in Big kid, Pictures, Three years three months, Year Four: 2009-2010, friends, vacation on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I meet the new baby in the family. He is a boy baby. Just two weeks old. And very small. Too small to play with.
I was never that small. Was I?
But there is another boy at the house. He is two years old. He is bigger. Almost as big as me.
He is big enough for [...]
My shopping list
Posted in Big kid, Pictures, Three years 2 months, Year Four: 2009-2010, chores, shopping, writing on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like to go to the store with Mom to buy food and other things for the house.
Mom makes a list and asks Dad if there is anything else she needs to add.
Then she asks me if there is anything I want.
I’m ready.
I hand her my shopping list.
It has everything I need.
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.
Really big kids
Posted in 2 years old, 33 months, Big kid, Year Three: 2008-09 on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At day care, I get bumped up to three-year-old room for the day.
My best friend Marley pokes her head around the door.
“Come on, Audrey,” she says. “We’re really big kids today.”
