Mondays with Kouryou-chan
Apr. 20th, 2004 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI love Mondays. It's the one day of the week when Kouryou-chan and I get to be alone, just with one another. After dropping Omaha off at work in downtown, I turned about and headed south for home. Kouryou-chan was already showing signs of being ready to nap and, sure enough, she fell asleep in the car. When we got to the grocery store, I pulled her out and she lolled against my shoulder, not yet willing to wake up. I put her in a cart and rolled her about the store while I picked up the few things we needed: milk, ravioli, an apple for my breakfast. By the time we got back to the car, she was almost awake, but in a very cranky way. Not a happy little girl.
We got home and I cuddled her on the couch for a few minutes until she was awake enough to understand that I would have to put her down and go cook dinner. I assured her that while the sauce simmered and the water heated we would have time for a game or two of Sequence. She threw a bit of a fit when I told her we'd have to play in the living room, where I could see the stove and monitor the food-- I guess she wasn't as awake as I thought. She really wanted to play downstairs instead. One of those illogical processes that go through kid's minds, I guess. I convinced her to bring the board upstairs and we'd play in the living room, and we went through two games pretty quickly. I won one; she won the other, mostly by not paying attention.
We ate together upstairs, with the quiet. It was nice. She talked about school; I mostly listened to her talk about her learning to "draw numbers."
Afterwards, she got a piece of candy out of her candy stash while I had some Girl Scout cookies and we wandered downstairs to watch TV. We watched about forty minutes of My Life as a Teenage Robot (which I've only just discovered, now that Nickelodeon has cancelled it...grrr! What is it with that network? First Zim, now Jenny). The episode where Jenny (the robot) loses her English data drive and can only speak Japanese was hilarious, and I understood a good bit of what she was saying. Kouryou-chan and I paused the video to try and draw Jenny when she had a particularly full-screen pose or face, something we could do easily. Kouryou-chan did a great job on a face-and-torso pic.
She did a very good job of reading Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now, but let me read Fox in Sox to her for the bedtime reading ritual. Then she announced she wanted to sleep in my bed. Omaha and I had to be firm with her and tell her in no uncertain terms that she would sleep in her own. That involved a few tears and at least one tantrum when she tried to sneak in at lights-out and I carried her back to her room, but she relented and slept well. Maybe Friday she can have the privelege-- if she can promise not to pee in it again.
I had the weirdest dream-- the part my laptop needs came in the mail, but instead of being the 600E model with 16,000 colors at 1024x768, it was a 280X model, grayscale red at 640x480. I wonder what it means. I hope I get that laptop fixed soon.
We got home and I cuddled her on the couch for a few minutes until she was awake enough to understand that I would have to put her down and go cook dinner. I assured her that while the sauce simmered and the water heated we would have time for a game or two of Sequence. She threw a bit of a fit when I told her we'd have to play in the living room, where I could see the stove and monitor the food-- I guess she wasn't as awake as I thought. She really wanted to play downstairs instead. One of those illogical processes that go through kid's minds, I guess. I convinced her to bring the board upstairs and we'd play in the living room, and we went through two games pretty quickly. I won one; she won the other, mostly by not paying attention.
We ate together upstairs, with the quiet. It was nice. She talked about school; I mostly listened to her talk about her learning to "draw numbers."
Afterwards, she got a piece of candy out of her candy stash while I had some Girl Scout cookies and we wandered downstairs to watch TV. We watched about forty minutes of My Life as a Teenage Robot (which I've only just discovered, now that Nickelodeon has cancelled it...grrr! What is it with that network? First Zim, now Jenny). The episode where Jenny (the robot) loses her English data drive and can only speak Japanese was hilarious, and I understood a good bit of what she was saying. Kouryou-chan and I paused the video to try and draw Jenny when she had a particularly full-screen pose or face, something we could do easily. Kouryou-chan did a great job on a face-and-torso pic.
She did a very good job of reading Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now, but let me read Fox in Sox to her for the bedtime reading ritual. Then she announced she wanted to sleep in my bed. Omaha and I had to be firm with her and tell her in no uncertain terms that she would sleep in her own. That involved a few tears and at least one tantrum when she tried to sneak in at lights-out and I carried her back to her room, but she relented and slept well. Maybe Friday she can have the privelege-- if she can promise not to pee in it again.
I had the weirdest dream-- the part my laptop needs came in the mail, but instead of being the 600E model with 16,000 colors at 1024x768, it was a 280X model, grayscale red at 640x480. I wonder what it means. I hope I get that laptop fixed soon.
