If it's Tuesday, it must be grandma's farmhouse!
We have this routine going and so sure enough, after the usual morning preoccupations -- the morning walk to let out the cheepers...
...followed by breakfast...
... I ready the house for my little visitor.
Ed looks at little Snowdrop.
Does it have teeth yet?
No teeth and she's not an it, she's a girl.
What, do you want to give her labels? And have her earn 80 cents to the dollar? Don't you want to keep the she or he out of it?
She's a girl. Want to hold her?
Maybe later.
Maybe now?
Little Snowdrop stretches her hand, Ed stretches his, supporting her tiny fist. I notice that his hand is longer than her entire arm.
She's in pink.
She wears all colors. For now. Until she has her own opinion. I dressed my baby in oshkosh b'gosh overalls, until she was old enough to tell me she preferred skirts.
Do you think girls care more than boys about how they look? This from a man who cares not a single bit about how he looks. For the camera or otherwise.
We speculate a little about appearance, and choice, and socialization -- topics not normally part of Ed's repertoire.
It is the beginning of a good visit.
(Though Isie boy retains his doubts. I coax him to check her out. He does. Reluctantly. Then disappears.)
No time to cook tonight. I play with Snowdrop and ask Ed to pick up some take-out Thai.
When he returns, he looks around. No Snowdrop. Where is she? -- he asks. Do I detect a tiny expression of regret when I tell him she went home?
We have this routine going and so sure enough, after the usual morning preoccupations -- the morning walk to let out the cheepers...
...followed by breakfast...
... I ready the house for my little visitor.
Ed looks at little Snowdrop.
Does it have teeth yet?
No teeth and she's not an it, she's a girl.
What, do you want to give her labels? And have her earn 80 cents to the dollar? Don't you want to keep the she or he out of it?
She's a girl. Want to hold her?
Maybe later.
Maybe now?
Little Snowdrop stretches her hand, Ed stretches his, supporting her tiny fist. I notice that his hand is longer than her entire arm.
She's in pink.
She wears all colors. For now. Until she has her own opinion. I dressed my baby in oshkosh b'gosh overalls, until she was old enough to tell me she preferred skirts.
Do you think girls care more than boys about how they look? This from a man who cares not a single bit about how he looks. For the camera or otherwise.
We speculate a little about appearance, and choice, and socialization -- topics not normally part of Ed's repertoire.
It is the beginning of a good visit.
(Though Isie boy retains his doubts. I coax him to check her out. He does. Reluctantly. Then disappears.)
No time to cook tonight. I play with Snowdrop and ask Ed to pick up some take-out Thai.
When he returns, he looks around. No Snowdrop. Where is she? -- he asks. Do I detect a tiny expression of regret when I tell him she went home?
Ah! The seduction of Ed?
ReplyDeleteSlowly but surely.
DeleteOh, absolutely, Ed is smitten.
ReplyDeleteI like the pics that show how teeny she really is, comparatively speaking.
I love pink (not for myself though). I guess I'm going to have to buy our little girl some pinkies!
OshKosh! B'Gosh! My boys were wearing those until they maxed out at, what was it, 4T? No little-man-hipster clothes for my kids! They are little for such a short short time!
She is actually sort of large. It's just that he is SO MUCH larger!. :)
DeleteAh, we were the oshkosh b'gosh generation of parents! Do you remember -- those buckles made them not the easiest pair of pants to work with when the babes were still not quite upright. Still, we persevered!
charming, totally!
ReplyDeleteyou just wear your (soon to be) grandparent eyes!
DeleteOshkosh overalls to girl stuff... exactly the story with my girl too. Girls wanna be girls... especially when their friends comment on the overalls. I once had a student who cried when she had to wear a dress for her First Communion when she was 8... now as a HS girl she's very stylish!
ReplyDeleteFunny how quickly our girls take those reins right out of our hands!
DeleteAw! So sweet! Yes, I think Ed's going to be falling hard for little Snowdrop.
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh about 'don't you want to keep the he or she out of it?' question. Maybe it's just me but I wouldn't want to. I've always enjoyed and taken pride in being a girl/woman - even though I'm not a pink and lace girly-girl. I am woman, and I'm darn proud of who I am, where I am, and how I got here! :D
The expression "tongue in cheek" may have been invented to describe the way Ed and I often talk to each other.
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