At the doctor's with Sharon, the other day:
Doctor: So, what do you want for Christmas?
Lucy: Chapstick. My lips are very dry.
(Doctor, to himself: "Christ almighty, get the kid some chapstick already!")
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She's a keeper.
One of a kind, for sure. I actually put her down on my lap to make a Christmas list some time ago. It was a tradition of mine, growing up, and one of the fondest of my dad - sitting on his lap with the "Sears Wish Book" in hand, making out a Christmas list. Problem was - Lucy didn't really have any thing she really wanted. She mostly just likes to hang out with us. After some prodding, her list became filled with things like, "A thing that hangs from the ceiling that you can hang on and spin around."
Understanding in some small part that frenzy that takes over parents who spend untold gobs of money on their kids, I was beginning to yearn for a few tangible things I could package with a bow that would set her eyes alight on Christmas morning. I ended up literally making a pass through Target to point out some options and see if they excited her. Of course, at that point, she ended up seeing some other things that we would not have normally considered, that she suddenly really wanted to have, like: a princess dress and shoes, a skateboard, and these weird shoe-spring things called "moon shoes" that don't look safe at all and are supposed to allow kids to jump like they're on the moon.
Yeah, get those for her. Jonah likes to go to the asile in Target that has the toy kitchen set. In that same asile there are those fancy German animals that cost $5 bucks or more each. He takes those animals from the display and puts them in the oven on the toy kitchen set.
Last time I caught him cooking an elephant, moose, and mountain gorilla in the oven. He likes to fry the whale and horses. He once pretended to eat a dinosaur raw.
Funny thing is he would not even try to eat anything new, but LOVES playing with pretend food at preschool. Bind blowing for me anyway.
Two things:
Lucy seems to live entirely in the moment, with essentially no sense that there is tomorrow (based entirely on like three anecdotes). I don't know if that's common for children her age as a part of regular brain development, but it seems like it would be.
Those 'moon shoe' things are older than we are. There was a pair of those thinks floating around my house as a child that had been around since the 60's. They consisted of two metal plates connected by some heavy duty springs. Strap one side to the bottom of each foot and off you go. Except they were terrifying and absolutely sure to destroy your ankles. Even worse, because of their era, they were really heavy and the springs were rusty and made horrible creaking noises. This was also true of the skateboards my family had, with solid metal wheels that rolled reluctantly and loudly wherever they went. At some point they created nylon wheels and skateboarding became popular.
I probably relate anecdotes that are more likely to reinforce that perception. It's like the 5 blind men & the elephant. Depending on which stories I pass along, you could think she is:
- A child prodigy at (take your pick).
- Naive.
- Sweet & snuggly.
- Cold & calculating.
- DE-ranged.
etc etc
Which is why I mentioned the anecdotes.
I still assume that the notions of future and past are things that develop in the human brain over early childhood, though probably sooner than now in Lucy terms.
SHe's a good little girl and I am sure she will have a 'magical christmas'
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