KDUNK

Dear Lili:

Here is a list of things you like/don’t like:

LIKE

car keys – sticking them in tiny holes all over the apartment, sticking a finger in each nostril as well as crayons (i don’t like), popsicles, lollipops, pacifier, Snowy your stuffed animal dog – from Tin Tin, hats, every night before bed you want me to replay the day literally from moment you got up until you went to bed and if i forget one item your scream ‘PARK!!!’ or ‘UMBRELLA’ and then i have to say something like, ‘ok sorry – yes – we carried an umbrella, play talking on the cell phone, you love plastic cups – stacking them – carrying them around – putting things in them, pouring water from cup to cup, climbing – on everything in the universe especially things that wobble and are totally dangerous, going through the recycling, standing in front of an open fridge and saying, “Hmmnn…” as if you are deciding what to eat, seeing pals in the park that you know – you get so excited it’s like a college reunion even though we see these people mostly every day, pizza, smoothies, quiche, fruit of all kinds except mango, dancing, music, like taking the little hidden key near our doorway and handing it to me each and every time we go in the door, like to rip off the stick on doorbell we put up by our mailboxes, car rides, train rides, bus rides, etc., hiding behind curtains, putting on shoes, love playing with blankets and pillows, water play or any kind, sunglasses, bubbles, carrying around a piece of cloth of some sort – dress or washcloth, play dough, feeding the fish – standing on kitchen chair and dropping food in bowl accept you always want to give more

DON’T LIKE

Hands dirty – if tiny grain of sand on your finger you say, “Dirty. Wash it.” Don’t like food unless it is cut into invisible morsels and say, “Cut it! Cut it!”, the transition from play to bed time (who can blame you really), veggies but will eat spinach, HATE meat – STILL! in any form, hidden or not hidden, etc., hate beans but will eat white fish if mixed in with rice, sleeping or cuddling in our bed – HATE IT ALWAYS HAVE, blowing on things that are ‘hot’, when I take your umbrella away and put it back in the stand, being in the stroller too long, the vaccuum – you are afraid of very few things but literally run and cling to my leg when you see it come out of closet and god forbid – don’t worry though – that doesn’t happen often.

xo