Spot

The last time we went to the library Ara picked up Spot loves school by Eric Hill and asked to check it out. Since then it has been a bedtime favorite. It's a board book with very minimal words so I usually embellish and ask Ara questions about what she thinks the characters are doing. Spot is a dog, he has three friends; a hippo, crocodile, and a monkey. On one of the pages all the animals are lined up at school with their lunch boxes, and our conversation went like this;

Me: What does Spot have in his lunch box?
Ara: Yogurt balls
Me: What does monkey have?
Ara: A banana.
Me: And hippo?
Ara: Grapes.
Me: What about crocodile?
Ara: STEAK!

I liked that all the kids/animals had healthy snacks (yogurt balls are close enough) and I thought the steak bit was hilarious.

Yucky Lizard

I have been so stressed and cooped up the past couple of days I feel like I am going out of my mind. So I am going to focus on positive things...

My Mom came over the past 2 days to play with Ara so that I could have some rest time (aka answer calls and fight with insurance people). The first day, they went outside to play and when my Mom saw a lizard she screamed so loud Ara ran inside. My Mom has this auto-scream anytime she sees something slithery, I can solidly pinpoint the origin of my irrational fears! Hahahah, I'm kidding, kind of. Well my Mom felt bad about scaring Ara so today she brought a package of fake lizards and bugs and a bug catching kit. I may be repeating the "super loud bug scream" the first time I see one of those in the house. Anyway, Ara loved it. She was the happiest little girl sitting outside arranging bugs and lizards among the flowers. She carried the 8 lizards around with her all day, in her pockets and carefully cupped in her hands. My favorite part is when people come over to talk to the "sweetie" and she holds up a lizard! Loving that reaction! We had the radio on to a local "pop" station and during every song Ara would declare that this song was a lizard song! The world is a wondrous place to her and I am so lucky (yucky) that I get to share her view a little bit.