Thoughts on Monk and my day, before I clean dishes and take a nap...

[conuly]

Well, I already thought Monk was aspie - but his mom. Wow. "I'll be wearing an orange blouse". That just screams "I don't expect people to recognize me", doesn't it? And we all know what that means.

Both Ana and I missed our naps. Sniffle. And we... well, I had fun. Ana got a bump on her head by running into a wall or a window, and she got to get carried around with an icepack, which she didn't appreciate. We bought her some stilts, which I'm madly in love with.

Historic Richmondtown is... interesting. It'd be a lot better without the road running right through it...

Oh, and I'm not supposed to tell anyone, but we went upstairs where we weren't supposed to because somebody who worked there took us up. Eeee. I couldn't resist the chance to do what I wasn't supposed to do.

And we visited around, and we ate, and I'm really selling this visit short... it was fun, but I'm vague and fuzzy from a need to sleep :(

And we didn't have cake for my mom's birthday yet. She'll probably have it at Jenn's.

Oh! And I forgot. Ana really likes trucks and cars and motorcycles right now, so I thought it'd be good to get her some boy clothes (with trucks and cars and planes on them instead of butterflies and flowers) and put her in those, see if people get confused. And, of course, she needs more toy vehicles, because she goes crazy over the few she has right now. So this is an open bit of begging - if anybody has any patterened boy clothes (or just non-girly clothes) for children up until - say, three, let her grow into them - I'd gladly pass them to Jenn. Or toys for kids under three, that works as well. New baby's in November, remember.

Though we can also buy stuff, and will no matter what, I do hate to see perfectly good clothes sit in an attic.

Comments

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Yeah...and confuse people like me who can't tell little boys from little girls. *grumbles about the incident a few weeks ago*

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

My mother swears by this: "And what is YOUR name?" said to the child, with a glance for the parent to fill in the answer. Almost always gives you the gender (either through the name itself or through the "Her name is..." part. In this way, you avoid using "his" or "her" since you're speaking TO the kiddo. :-)

Though seriously, I have no idea why a parent would get upset if you get it wrong. Bewildered perhaps, if the kid in question was, say, all in pink with bows in her hair, but upset? Toddlers are pretty androgynous.

[conuly]

What, with their diapers on? Nobody expects you to. And those who do expect you to are stupid.

Now, if you can't tell them apart with their diapers off, that's a different issue altogether :)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Thanks. Yeah, the little boy in question had very "girly" eyes and was wearing something not-very-"boyish."