Arwen's Weblog

I’m not sure what’s happened to our faerie princess. She still binges on affection, but it’s harder to coax out of her. It’s now harder to distract her from her temper or general grouchiness.

Making up songs is my best diversion, especially for her “nappy pappy”. The songs usually involve her being in my belly at one time. That gets her attention, ‘cause isn’t that a strange concept to a child? I used to be where? I used to be so tiny you couldn’t see me?

Her 1/2 point (at 2 1/2) has also seen her get a lot louder. We love hearing her say her new words and watch her understand abstract ideas and express them the way babies do. Today walking across the Trader Joe’s parking lot with all 3 of them, I reminded them to look for cars. “Stay alert,” I said. Halfway across, Arwen saw a car, plenty of yards away that it didn’t matter, backing out of its parking spot. She yells about as loud as she possibly can, “Alert! Alert! Car. Alert!” So she’s not the faerie princess we thought she was, but I’m happier to see her genius. And they are geniuses at this age. They’re learning far more and faster than I possibly could at 31.