Abbie's World

We spent part of tonight outside, enjoying the last vestiges of warmish summer evenings. The boys were running around in search of potentially dangerous things to ingest. Abbie was playing her favorite game, Shove a Brother, perhaps baited by the boys’ joyously unobstructed movement. Over my objections, she pushed Tory to the ground. He wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry at first, but quickly settled on “cry.” Abbie bent down to his level, and innocently asked his tear-streaked face, “What’s wrong, Tory?”

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We read “The Cat in the Hat” tonight. This is still one of her favorites, perhaps setting a personal record for Most Consecutive Nights Choosing the Same Bedtime Book. One of the pages reads “And then something went bump. How that bump made us jump.” Abbie has started acting out this page in recent days, jumping several times upon hearing “jump.” Tonight she wanted to act it out in greater detail, and decided we needed a “bump” before the “jump.” She walked to her closet, established position against the door, and gave it a solid head butt. I have to admit that the sound of two hollow objects colliding makes an effective “bump.”