endless variations… over and over and over again!
If you have to read a book 4 times a day then any Mo Williems book is an essential addition to the book basket.
Thu, September 20, 2007 at 12:33 Mama I’m Cinderella!
Mama you are Ermitrude*
Mama, Aba is Prince Roderick
* Ermitrude = name of one of the ugly sisters in her Cinderella book.
Sat, September 15, 2007 at 22:33 You are such a girl.
It’s always dresses, you get excited about a new outfit, insist on wearing it immediately and you ask for your favourites repeatedly.
You wear your fairy outfits almost every day. Sometimes you sleep in one.
You love shoe shopping and you know what you like, and what you don’t. It’s instant, and you don’t change your mind.
You love to get your hair cut, love the fussing and the mirrors and the lollipop at the end. When we dry your hair after a bath you like to play “hairdresser” and we talk about the fact that you are going out that evening, for ice-cream, with your Aba.
Sometimes you call out “help me Fireman Sam”.
Your favourite book is this version of Cinderella, and you often refer to your sandals as your “glass slippers”.
You dance.
You pick flowers and like me to thread them through your hair.
This Friday on the Kew common we watched a bridal party come out of a church and you watched in awe, turning to me to say “mama, I want to get married”
I don’t know where you get it from.
You enchant me.
Thu, September 6, 2007 at 22:59 Playing a rushing game of chase around the house Chi shrieks
“Mama - you didn’t caught me!”
Thu, August 16, 2007 at 23:24 Me: Where does your Omi* live ChiChini?
She: Chorleywood!
Me: Yeah - that’s right! And your Sabta**?
She: Uhmmm - uhmmm, in the ‘puter***!
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* Omi - German for Grandma - aka paternal grandmother number 2
** Sabta - Hebrew for Grandma - aka paternal grandmother number 1
*** ‘puter - computer - medium for many many transatlantic skype conversations
Fri, July 20, 2007 at 08:51 Last night while E, E, Chi and me ate pizza late after a long day out:
Chi: loook a motor-bike! (pointing to tv screen)
Chi: I want to go on a motor-bike… Aba I want to go on a Motor-bike!
Aba: NO!
Chi: Ok
