October 09, 2009
our little artist
How massively I have fallen down on the job here! I haven't updated anything about Linna in a very long time.
The biggest news in Linna's world right now is that she LOVES to draw. She spends hours each day drawing - mostly girls and kitties, and babies. They're recognizable, with sometimes odd accoutrements, like the family portrait today of us all swinging on trapezes, with balls of yarn hanging off our feet. Sometimes the people have kitty ears and whiskers, which makes sense, because sometimes Linna does also.
I can't believe she's in her second year of preschool, but it's so. She's happy at Harmony, especially now that she has butterfly rain boots.
She's utterly charming, and often tells me she loves me.
Also, she doesn't participate in classes, I've learned. She did Do Jump camp over the summer, and really just wasn't interested. Then we did a dance class for preschoolers at Laurelhurst - with MIKA, her favoritest person in the world. Each class, she would dance for a while, maybe the first 20 minutes, and then she was done. She would not go back, no matter what the teacher's blandishments. Actually, I wasn't crazy about how the teacher tried to get her to do it, although I guess I understand - basically, it was attempted bribery. "Linna, come dance with me! Otherwise you won't get a sticker at the end of class." To that, Linna basically said, "OK. Maybe I'll dance next week and get a sticker." To be honest, I was a little bit proud that she couldn't be swayed.
Often we have a particular battle: the I-want-to-wear-a-white-dress-with-pink-flowers battle. She has one little dress - from my childhood - that is white with pink roses on it. It's too small. And it has to be washed at times. But she always wants to wear it, or some other pink flowery dress. I had to get a few more so that we weren't fighting about it so much.
The other night we had dinner at Caldera, a local restaurant. We sat upstairs, and had that whole room to ourselves. After we'd ordered, but before the food came, a woman came up to look around, and Linna chatted with her about this and that. As the woman left, she said, "Have a nice dinner!" and Linna said, "But where is our dinner?"
One final tidbit: she loves to talk about babies and often wants me to tell her a story about when she was born, when Ethan was born, when Dylan was born, and when Mika was born. Then we move on to when my cat had kittens. For a while she insisted she had 50,000 kittens in her tummy, ready to be born.
Posted by ktingey at October 9, 2009 05:23 AM