Once Upon a Monday

A lot of Rosemary's friends have been creating daily alter-egos - e.g. "I'm bear today." She hasn't done much of that but the other day she woke up and immediately got dressed to be "Fairy Tale." Wings, tiara, and (although not shown in this picture) rose-tinted sunglasses. She hasn't ventured much into her dress up clothes lately, so this kind of came out of the blue.

Some people like the Arts and Leisure section, some go straight for the crossword, but Fairy Tale prefers the Sunday Business section.

Drawing on it, that is, with her multicolored pen. We went to dimsum in Chinatown on Sunday, on the top of the Chinese mall under the Manhattan Bridge. There was a Hello Kitty store on the first level and we did not get past it without a souvenir. Let it be said that next time we go to dimsum we will go elsewhere to avoid this store because once we said she could have something inexpensive she spent 30 minutes agonizing about what to get, picking out one NOT inexpensive item after another, and generally making Jason and I feel simultaneously like total suckers and really mean parents. Thank heavens we finally found one of those jumbo sized ball point pens with 10 different colors of ink, which did the trick ($2.49).

Fairy Tale had a ball helping me bake some blueberry banana bread. She (Rosemary, not just Fairy Tale) loves doing stuff in the kitchen and loves helping set the table, bring stuff over to the table (sooooo carefully), etc. I am writing this down now so I can look back wistfully later.

Here's what we are in to generally these day: Pinkalicious (the book), anything relating to doctors (but especially shots, she gives them and mercilessly cackles, dentists too, thunder storms (still love/fear) and weather in general, tracing her name and other letters, trying to do some letters freehand, rhyming, making up silly words. The other day she told me I was "goosted" which she defined as "getting silly."