Joni...
I'm not talking about Joni enough, and she's my little girl, so I'll talk about her a bit now. Lets' leave religion to the side of the plate today (it's a big plate). She's becoming more and more like a little girl every day, and she has me in the palm of her hand (and I think she knows). Every morning at about Seven, when she's finished with Beckys' milk, she'll lay on the pillow beside me and (if she's in the mood) will let me have a few minutes more half-sleeping...But not this morning, she (as she always does sooner or later), climbed over my face, and down my side of the bed, and pulling the cover off me (as much as she can) feels around for my hand, which she then pulls on hard in the direction of her bedroom...Saying "Booksssh!Bookshh!"..So I get up, and follow her hand in hand to the bedroom, where I pick her up(her bookshelf us quite high, which is good, because the books would never be on it otherwise!) and she points at the books (always about 10 of them!) she wants "dat!dat!dere!dere...".
Mornings and nights are always when Joni's the nicest, and they've transformed those two events into wonderful things. Tonight Joni (as usual) walked in the bedroom to give Daddy a kiss before going to bed (She's always reluctant, but then she always finally kisses me and she's so warm about it)...Tonight, she had her dolly in her hand ("oh, BAby!oh, BAby!" as she says), and she held up baby for me to give her a kiss too! Another of my favourite Joni'isms is "Oh, NO!Oh, NO!" which she says as if her little world was ending! Becky said she said it the other day, and couldn't stop saying it and crying when her little etch-a-sketch toy's pen broke (we got her another one). That's another Joni'ism: "Dwaw!Dwaw!", when she wants to draw (she says it whenever she spies a pen or a pencil, or like the other day, she pointed to the top of the computer desk (she couldn't see the top though) because she knew I put pens there!). There's hardly a day goes by when her arms or hands haven't got new pen marks all over them, or if not her body, then our bed covers or the sofa covers! She draws so precisely though for her age, she lays on the floor right onto the paper, and scribbles, but then she'll do a few dots across the page here and there, and then sit up like she's finished her little masterpiece!
She's funny. Her stubborn manner is worrying sometimes though (thinking ahead a few years...), she's really getting into the habit of saying "No!!!" when you ask her to do stuff! Becky and me have to try to stop ourselves laughing because at the moment it's more funny than naughty....
Mornings and nights are always when Joni's the nicest, and they've transformed those two events into wonderful things. Tonight Joni (as usual) walked in the bedroom to give Daddy a kiss before going to bed (She's always reluctant, but then she always finally kisses me and she's so warm about it)...Tonight, she had her dolly in her hand ("oh, BAby!oh, BAby!" as she says), and she held up baby for me to give her a kiss too! Another of my favourite Joni'isms is "Oh, NO!Oh, NO!" which she says as if her little world was ending! Becky said she said it the other day, and couldn't stop saying it and crying when her little etch-a-sketch toy's pen broke (we got her another one). That's another Joni'ism: "Dwaw!Dwaw!", when she wants to draw (she says it whenever she spies a pen or a pencil, or like the other day, she pointed to the top of the computer desk (she couldn't see the top though) because she knew I put pens there!). There's hardly a day goes by when her arms or hands haven't got new pen marks all over them, or if not her body, then our bed covers or the sofa covers! She draws so precisely though for her age, she lays on the floor right onto the paper, and scribbles, but then she'll do a few dots across the page here and there, and then sit up like she's finished her little masterpiece!
She's funny. Her stubborn manner is worrying sometimes though (thinking ahead a few years...), she's really getting into the habit of saying "No!!!" when you ask her to do stuff! Becky and me have to try to stop ourselves laughing because at the moment it's more funny than naughty....
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 9:50 PM
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