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sitting in the dim guestroom at 7 am listening to some 3-year-old howling from the hallway and thinking to myself that #1 this is going to be One Of Those Mornings and #2 man being an aunt is unglamorous but you know, I get to leave, and even though she spent yesterday mostly kicking me and yelling at me and using me as a jungle gym, when I go away and come back she always gets really excited to see me again.
Oh the howling has given way to emphatic listings of How It’s Going To Be Today. That’s progress. Maybe I can show my face.
(Yesterday she was playing, and designated me the Snake Detective, and then was listing off all the things that the Snake Sister (there’s a snake toy named Snake that she had hidden and I was supposed to find, and I think she had decided she herself was the Snake Sister but I’m not sure) liked to eat, and it was this long list of basically every noun she could think of– bees, and grass, and vegetables, and shoes, and sheep, and fish, and oranges, and hair, and sandwiches, and Pete Seeger, and trees, and–
She has a poster of Pete Seeger that someone gave her, and so he has sort of just become part of her world cosmology, and features in a lot of the lists she makes.
sitting in the dim guestroom at 7 am listening to some 3-year-old howling from the hallway and thinking to myself that #1 this is going to be One Of Those Mornings and #2 man being an aunt is unglamorous but you know, I get to leave, and even though she spent yesterday mostly kicking me and yelling at me and using me as a jungle gym, when I go away and come back she always gets really excited to see me again.
Oh the howling has given way to emphatic listings of How It’s Going To Be Today. That’s progress. Maybe I can show my face.
(Yesterday she was playing, and designated me the Snake Detective, and then was listing off all the things that the Snake Sister (there’s a snake toy named Snake that she had hidden and I was supposed to find, and I think she had decided she herself was the Snake Sister but I’m not sure) liked to eat, and it was this long list of basically every noun she could think of– bees, and grass, and vegetables, and shoes, and sheep, and fish, and oranges, and hair, and sandwiches, and Pete Seeger, and trees, and–
She has a poster of Pete Seeger that someone gave her, and so he has sort of just become part of her world cosmology, and features in a lot of the lists she makes.
