Up yours

If she could tell me, "Up Yours", I think she would.

Still, on the way out the door this morning she told me, "I Love You!" and "Happy Birthday!"

What a little Thug Muffin.

She is home with Paul today because Tues afternoons she is with him. Thurs afternoons she is with me. But this morning Paul had an open schedule this morning and so wanted to keep her with him again all day. I wanted her to go to school this morning because she has music and story time today, but then the weather turned crappy so I figured fine. Although this will do nothing to help her routine/schedule, which is now only a scaffolding of what it used to be.

She sat captivated last night through about 20 DVR play-backs of a brief Sleeping Beauty music video ("If I know You") that popped up on the Disney channel (again, thank you DVR). I was amazed that she was amazed. She's never seen a Disney movie cartoon. Here is this Sleeping Beauty chick singing to a bunch of forest animals about her dreamy prince that she's met in a dream, and my daughter, who knows NOTHING about princesses and fairy tales and all that stuff, is mesmorized. The voice of the woman is obviously that of a 40's-50's era sound, but it's timelsss to Anna's ears. Disney knows it can make Baby crack- an addiction for even 19 month-olds. It blows my mind and defies my theory that little girls only like girlie things, like Princesses, because they're taught to. Hopefully the draw to these movies for such little ones is that they're embedded with subliminal messages that say, "Don't tell your mommy and daddy 'Up Yours'". Maybe that's really what she's attracted to?

After the first 10 runs of the video, she got up and asked me to dance. That was fun and sweet!! Then: "Up Yours" when I told her it was bath time.