Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I’ve been thinking how Reid might describe herself if she were on the “Dating Game”. Not that her Dad and I have any intention of letting her date until she is *at least* 30! Here’s what I have come up with:
* My name is Reid “Elizabeff”;
* I like the colour yellow, the number SIX (imagine the enthusiasm) and the letters R and X;
* I don’t own a car but I like to drive other people’s cars when they are parked;
* In my opinion, buses are fascinating. Yellow school buses are my favourite, the little baby buses are the ultimate and I like to think of them as Reidie-buses. Red city buses are pretty good and the great big articulated ones are awe-worthy;
* My daddy is the man in my life right now and with my mama’s help I have stopped tossing off a careless, “I love you” at bedtime and now look at him, smile and say, “I love you” before going back to turning on the lamp or whatever. Daddy sometimes calls me a Stepford child but I don’t know what that means. Mama has only caught a glimpse of my face during this but agrees the change might be disconcerting;
* It’s hard to choose just one book for a favourite, but “Moo, Baa, La La La!” by Sandra Boynton would probably be it but I love so many;
* My favourite songs are “Old Macdonald” – as long as I choose the order of the animals that appear – and a Kindermusik song that goes like this; “Meow, meow, meow, who’s cat art thou? (Pooka says) I am Reidie’s cat. Meow, meow, meow.” Mama changes the sound the animal makes so that we can sing about Max and Zoey and the name so that we can sing about Leo. If Mama says “Clio says” then she is Daddy’s cat.
* My favourite movie is any with Winnie Pooh in it;
* My favourite tv show is “Toopy- Binoo” (Toopy and Binoo); and
* I like taking long walks, sometimes in my stroller, sometimes walking alone but slowly, sometimes being carried and sometimes running in my wiggly sort of way. Usually I do all of these things in a single long walk.