Ten Things to Love about Vivi

In no particular order.


1. When playing tea party, she likes to serve her plastic muffins inside the teacups. This is very forward-thinking. In 2024, everyone will be eating their coffeeshop pastries like this.

2. As she perfects the use of spoons and forks, she insists on taking the utensil from your hand, putting it all the way down on her highchair tray, then lifting it to her mouth.

3. She loves, to a degree that far surpasses her sister at the same age, to play peek-a-boo, especially with otherwise commonplace objects: peeking over the back of the sofa is always a good one, as is peering unexpectedly through one of the holes in their slide/climbing toy. The laughter!

4. She loves to stand next to her sister on the bathroom step stool and do a creditable job of brushing her own teeth.

5. She makes a very funny, very toothy kinda grin/grimace when you ask her to make a "shark face."

6. On walks, she likes to trail behind Julia and me and take little sneaky nibbles of the snow.

7. She is absolutely unmindful of having snow on her face, down her puffball pink snowsuit, all over her mittens, on her hat brim - wherever.

8. She marks any and all sightings of cats (real, in books, on TV, drawn on paper) with an ear-piercing shriek of delight.

9. She will still give one of her patented "mmmmm-UH" kisses to just about anything.

10. Every morning when I go in to get her out of her crib, she does the same routine of insisting that I kiss both her silky and her teddy bear, then pulling her fuzzy overnight socks off. 


And a bonus about Julia:

1. On getting up from her (perfectly normal-length) naps on Saturday and Sunday, she wiped her hand over her brow and exclaimed, "My, that was quite a nap!"

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.