November 27, 2011

  • Nail Polish And Little Girls

     

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    Why is it little girls just love having nail polish on?  Chewlee will pick out a color after she's worn me down and I tell her I'll put some on her but she has to be good so it dries nice.  I let her choose from the light pinks I have.  Two of the colors actually only look like her nails are shining because they are so light but it makes her happy.

    It's not just Chewlee.  Our neighbors have the cutest little girl who will proudly show me her nails when her mother puts some on her.  She wiggles her fingers so much that you almost can't see the color.  They also seem to get more feminine.  They know that nail polish is something that their mothers and BIG girls wear so they are doubly happy when THEY get some.  In their minds, it puts them in the same category as BIG girls.

    Chewlee starts off wanting nail polish on her fingers.  The next thing I know, the shoes and socks are off and I have a foot in my lap so her toes match her fingers.     Then she doesn't want to cover them up with shoes and socks.  Who can see that she has nail polish on them if she covers them up.

    Chewlee has this toy cell phone that's really cute.  It will call her from time-to-time when she puts it ON.  I found to shut the damn thing OFF I have to hit the ON button again and shut the top.  It goes off after about 30 seconds.  You can tell because the light around the antenna section goes out.  She has an amazing variety of people that *call* her.  She will answer her phone and say, *Hello?  Oh hello xxxxxxxx!* and then go on to talk about her day and she asks what they are doing.  Yesterday she came into my room and told me to turn down my television because she was on the phone.    Today, eery time someone called me, she HAD to be on her phone at the same time and she would sit on the floor next to me blathering until I tapped her on her head and told her to go talk in the other room or in HER room because she would talk louder and louder until you couldn't hear.  Typical little kid stuff.  They always want to be the center of attention.

    Her conversations with her mother on HER phone are really hilarious at times.  She will run up to me with her hand over the phone like she doesn't want the person she's talking to to hear and say things like, *Mommy wants to know if you want to go to the zoo with us when your feet are better.*  or *Mommy wants to know if you need anything from the store today*.  Just too funny.  I play along with her because she is so sincere.  You would think from listening to her talk that she actually has someone she's talking to.  I saw one of Tara's sons do a double take when she was walking around with the toy cell phone one day.  That's how real her conversations sound.

    It has rained here all day today to Baron's chagrin.  He hates rain as much as he does snow so he wouldn't go out to pee until he couldn't hold it any more.  He barely got down the stairs before he had his leg lifted.  As soon as he was done, he whipped around and wanted in.  We keep a towel close by so we can towel him off when he comes in and wipe his paws. too.  He makes large footprints on my floor with those clodhopper feet of his.

    The Beast will probably go to the Brother's on Wednesday and I told him that I was going to clean the floors while he's gone because then I can do it a little at a time and not worry about Baron dragging stuff in the house from between his paws.  Oh, have you seen the ad on television for the new knock-off of the Rhumba machine?  You can use those wet or dry clothes on it and it whips around your floors and cleans or sweeps for you?  I told the Beast I really liked that and discovered that he had already looked it up on the Internet after seeing the ad.  He found out you can buy it at Walmart for about $200.  I just smiled and said, *What a dynamite Christmas present that would make for someone, wouldn't it?*  I hope he takes the hint.  I almost knocked him over the head with that one, don't you think? 

    Love you all.  Have a great week, ya hear?  Go easy on the Christmas shopping.  Don't do too much at one time.    Oh, do you want my Wish List?  I'll be happy to post it for you if you want.