It's been a long time since I've posted anything with words. It's not because there hasn't been anything to say. It's just that Aydin's antics keep getting funnier and more have-to-be-there-to-believe it every day. Highlights:1. Expressions. Likes to try out different emotions -- and not just the major ones. She goes for the "oh, really?" raised eyebrow, the sardonic "mmm-hmmm" chin-tilt and top-of-the-eye head-on stare, and my personal favorite, the "I can't hear you" eyes closed, chin raised, head turned away move. At dinner tonight she put on this deliberately maniacal-sounding laugh while resolutely refusing to eat any fish sticks. (As though to say, "Oh, mother, fish sticks are so late January." 2. Storytelling. Through dance, words, song... Aydin likes to tell stories. She tells me about the things that happened "yesterday" (yesterday = any day that occurred prior to this one). Big memories: getting scratched by Kitty and "puking" all over her green blanket in the car. She tells me her dreams, too. nOe in particular sticks in my mind because it was a quite involved adventure containing the lemur, King Julian, played by Sacha Baron Cohen in Madagascar. She makes up elaborate dance sequences, one involving putting her hands palm together between her legs and jumping up and down. It's absolutely, positively one of the most bizarre and heavenly-hilarious things I've ever seen. Sometimes after we've kissed her goodnight we hear her talking to herself for up to 45 minutes -- sometimes shouting, even. Her stories can get a little intense and frequently involve someone getting mad or sad and being denied ice cream. 3. Occasional Moments in which Mommy realizes that yes, there is a line she's not willing to cross despite the fact that she loves her daughter more than life itself: "Mommy, I have an itch in my butt hole. Scratch it." 4. Starting to fall for "Big Girl" Propaganda: "Big girls don't whine or scream or cry when they don't get what they want;" "big girls pee-pee in the potty;" "big girls use their magic words," etc. 5. Discussing in detail and in great repetition all the things that used to be scary but are now just normal things to note in life, such as: poop, the Easter bunny ("he's just a person, in a costume, he's not scary, he's just saying hello"), sharks at the aquarium, the pediatrician ("she gives me a purple lollipop, she likes purple lollipops"), the red, feathery cat toy at the pet store where we go to visit the "fishies", the big blue, furry puppet in the play room at Families First ("it's not there anymore! the big, blue birdie is just gone!")... 6. Sudden acts of lovey abandon, like when she turns to me out of nowhere and plants two of the softest, wispiest kisses on either cheek; or today during Miss Lauren's class when she hugged and kissed her friend Axel so sweetly -- all through two stories. For a child who has balked from most forms of human contact, such random acts of physical affection set off fireworks in the hearts of all her little dudes! There is just so much more and so little time to record it all. I can only hope that you all get a chance to spend enough time with Aydin at this age to allow her to show her self.
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