Conversations with my daughter, Part VI.

[rivka]

Scene 1: Career counseling.

Alex: watching the crime scene tech. What's her doing?
Me: She's standing on the ladder and putting powder on our window.
Alex: Her making a big mess.
Me: It's okay for her to make a mess, because that's her job.
Michael: Maybe someday you can have a job where you make big messes.
Alex: I have to be bigger.
Michael: Yes, you have to be bigger to get a job.

Scene 2: Alt.poly is part of Alex's cultural heritage.

Alex: I want apple juice and milky.
Me: Which one? Apple juice or milky?
Alex: Apple juice AND milky.
Me: One or the other.
Alex: How about, one AND the other.

Scene 3: Our politics into practice.

Me: opening the mail. A wedding invitation! Who's getting married?
Alex: from Dorian's arms. Alex and Dorian are getting married.
Me: Oh yeah? You're going to marry Dorian? Do you love her?
Alex: Oh, yes. Alex will marry Dorian. the affianced couple hugs.
Dorian: Okay, Alex. I need to leave now.
Alex: cries. Alex goes WITH Dorian. Walk down the street, Dorian hold you.
Dorian: leaves.
Me: consoling the crying toddler. The course of true love never did run smooth.

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

You can definitely tell she's your kid, having learned to embrace the power of "and" as a toddler. :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, appealing to the power of "and" does work well on me. She got both, and drank all of both - so I guess she proved her point!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy reading Conversations with Alex.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Me too. And it's nice to have this at the top of my journal, rather than the story of the robbery.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Alex posts improve the quality of just about anything.

[malibrarian.livejournal.com]

The story of the what? I thought that you didn't get the channel changed quickly enough!

Sarah is also a milk/juice type of girl. I'm trying to encouage the milk as part of the healthy lifestyle. This is not helped by the fact that my stomach can't tolerate milk.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

No, we got robbed (http://rivka.livejournal.com/359668.html). It was a real crime scene tech in our real kitchen. And she did leave a hell of a mess - fingerprint powder all over everything.

Sarah is also a milk/juice type of girl. I'm trying to encouage the milk as part of the healthy lifestyle. This is not helped by the fact that my stomach can't tolerate milk.

Alex seems to put the fact that we don't drink milk in the same category as the fact that she doesn't drink wine or beer. So far, at least. I know that won't last forever.

We try to limit juice consumption to about 4oz a day, mixed with about the same amount of water. It has so much sugar, and she has such a small appetite that even a couple of glasses of juice would represent a significant percentage of her daily calories. On the other hand, she can have all the milk she wants.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I happened on an old Sarah story the other day that this reminds me of. I asked Sarah (then roughly Alex's age) what kind of pop (sicle) she would like, and she said, "Two!"

[redbird]

Yes, embrace the power of "and". I'd have suggested that the alt.poly or general familial way of doing it would be "I'll share some juice with you," but I see she drank all of it.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

She was insanely thirsty this morning - she drank 24oz of fluids in the first hour after she woke up. (10oz water, 10oz diluted apple juice, 4oz milk.) That's rare.

Normally she is all about sharing her food and drink, so much so that it becomes annoying. We like to see her generosity, but she hasn't quite picked up the refinement that one tries to only give things that the other person wants to have. For example, I can't even count the number of times that I've had to stop her from putting strawberries (to which I am allergic) in my mouth. ...Hey, this is sounding more and more like certain threads on alt.poly.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

She's so freaking adorable.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

These stories are utterly adorable! Maybe you could compile them into a little book and give them to her when she gets older?

And: A recipe.

[brooksmoses]

When my brother and I were small -- though probably slightly older than Alex -- my mother would occasionally give us what we called "moot juice" (from a combination of "milk" and "fruit"): a mixture of apple juice, orange juice, and milk. I remember it as being quite tasty, even if my adult self wonders why the orange juice doesn't curdle the milk horribly.

I think she once told me that this was inspired by similar sorts of mixed beverages she had in a hotel in Hawaii in the early 1970s, but that could be complete misremembering on my part....