Shine

Dharma believes her eyes can shine.  She opens her eyes really wide, raises her eyebrows, and aims them at things, people, whatever.  She believes her shining eyes have the power to ward off monsters and light the night.

Tonight there was a spider on the ceiling.  I yelled for Rob to get it.  When he got up to get a stool to stand on, Dharma shined her eyes at it and made sure it stayed where it was.

Thanks, Dharma.  And your shiny eyes.

Pow! Pow Pow!

It's been a long time since the last post.  It's not that nothing has happened, I just haven't gotten a chance to blog it.  So tonight I bring you a single photo.

Dharma, shooting Mandalay, with a deer antler.  She already took down Danny and Mazy has avoided injury by pretending to be asleep on the couch:

First day of school

Dharma's first day of school was today.  I knew we would not have a problem with her staying there since she has been looking forward to it for weeks.  She was very excited to get there, meet her new teacher and tell her all about everything.  She was also looking forward to making new friends.  It just happened that there was another new girl today so the teacher introduced them right away to eachother.

Dharma looked around and took it all in.  When she saw the playground through the back window she said, "Look mom, they put that park here just for me."  When she saw the stool in front of the sink so the kids could wash their hands she commented, "Mom, there is a stool there just for me so I can reach the sink."  The teacher put her name above the coat hook on the end and Dharma told me "My hook is first, before anyone else's." 

Confidence is not something she lacks.

My mom came with to drop Dharma off and to see the routine since she will be the one doing this starting next week.  We stayed for a few minutes to make sure everything was okay.  Dharma said something to her teacher, who did not hear her and asked her to repeat it.  So she repeated to the teacher, loud enough for me to hear her from across the room this time, "I just farted."  All I could do was smile and shake my head.

When I picked her up I asked the teacher how she did and she said Dharma is much more outgoing than Mackenzie was (she must have talked back), she has no problem making new friends (she talks a lot), she is very creative (she must not have followed the instructions during fingerpainting time) and that she is looking forward to seeing her again Thursday (please take this child and leave now).

Dharma said her favorite thing today was snack time because they had little graham crackers and her new friend gave her some of hers.  Her least favorite thing was playing with blocks because one of the boys would not listen to her and kept stacking them up wrong.  I feel sorry for that little boy, he obviously does not have as much foresight as the girl who was handing over her graham crackers.

Another food related post

Dharma and I did not do a whole lot today, and yet I am exhausted.  She exhausts me.  She has not stopped talking since the time she got out of bed at 7am.  She has also eaten her weight in food.  For breakfast she had 2 toaster strudels and an orange.  Then there was the half of a dog treat she ate while she was crawling around the floor insisting she was a puppy.  A little while later she wanted a snack so she got a Gogurt.  At lunch she had a 4" Subway Cold Cut Combo sandwich, of which she ate all the meat and toppings and more than half the bread.  Then she wanted another snack and had a piece of string cheese.  Right before dinner she had 2 Special K cereal bars.  At dinner she had 3/4 of a hot dog, some green beans and relish (which she ate with a spoon).  Since dinner she has had another orange, a cordial cherry, a gingerbread cookie and a piece of saltwater taffy that she got for her toy train and when the train wouldn't eat it, she decided to eat it herself. 

FOUR!

This afternoon I was going to take Dharma to play mini-golf.  It was closed so we played at the park in the mall instead.  She quickly made two little friends.  The three girls chased eachother and had a mock sleepover.  Then, the older brother of one of the girls (he must have been 4, maybe even 4 and a half) came by and pushed his sister down.  So Dharma, being the good friend that she is, turned and pushed him down.

conspiring with her new friends

Dharma said she was going to take post on top of the apple so she could "watch out for bad guys."

We stopped in a store on the way out and Dharma told the lady in the store all about how I told her she could play mini golf and now it was closed and how distraught she was over this.  She conned the lady into giving her a sucker, which she had hanging out of her mouth while riding the pink motorcycle.

Tonight after Rob got home and we had dinner, we all went back to play that round of mini golf.  Dharma did not quite get the hang of how to hold the club.

Eventually she gave up, abandoned our game and found ways to entertain herself by pretending to poop in the hole on the green:

Pretending the club was a horse:

Trying to figure out how the course worked and if she could get her arm stuck in the holes (she can):

And climbing on the decorations:

There was some creepy bear picture on one of the holes.  You can't really see in the picture but there were dents and holes all over that wall in the shape of golf balls from people trying to hit the bear.

Other than pushing a little boy down, swindling candy out of a store clerk and messing around with everything in sight at the mini golf place, Dharma was pretty well behaved today.

Doh!

You may remember Dharma telling the neighbor about the penis pictures I had (which for anyone who missed that post was actually a book we got from the library to discuss birds and bees with our older daughter).  So a few days ago she had to go potty while Rob was in there taking a shower.  She was just suppose to use the washroom, wash her hands, and then come back out.  At some point she decided to peek in the shower and ask Rob why he had a piece of poo hanging off him.  The only part of this I heard was him yelling "Get out of here!"

Tonight Dharma is playing with Play-Doh.  She has been at this a long time.  I went to see what she was making and she had an assortment of things that looked like little blue plugs.  When I asked her what they were she told me they were...yep, you guessed it...penises.

The girl has learned a new word and is using it as much as she can.