And what in the world? A monkey in the world!

"So..."

"... And what in the world is this?"

"This is a monkey in the world!"


Lilo, reading to me (turning pages of Julian dreams bk)

"Am I going to be a baby again?"

Lilo, earnest, sitting in her blue chair: "Am I going to be a baby again?"

("a-ginn?")

all day here

my daddy is all day here today. he doesn't go to work. today is saturday. not wednesday.


can we go in it? - Yes.
and we will say, this Chattanooga for us!


I say- I say- I say- I say I'm feeling, I say, I'm feeling delicate; grown up, pick me up!

Hold me!
I said, aunt maro hold me, quick!

they have a lot of steps at lake burton

that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it
that's how we do it


LILO going down the steps w her mama at lake burton

Mom is where we start from

Winnicott: 'Home is where we ...

made with Smilebox (wouldn't have put 'Rectngl Collage in the name if knew wld show like this, as if paperclipped, in email image), which gives the code to post in Blogger. I took out the html for the logo & 'customize a digital collage' prompt
for Mother's Day, May 9th, tomorrow

smiling at

peekaboo LILO grin tree
child happiness

open eyes ---this is what I look like because I believe in you!
little fist held ~ eagerness, anticipation, delight ~ a tension

I love to see her postures, undesigned

and actually looking like a caricature, or what would do to signal an emotion, make it large, like on stage.
delight really looks like that? interest really has you leaning forward. or looking up at an airplane, mouth shaped oooh ahh pursed circle.

The Hand That First Held Mine p83: She moves the rattle from side to side and the coloured beads ricochet around inside their clear globes. The effect on the baby is instantaneous and remarkable. His limbs stiffen, his eyes spring wide, his lips part in a perfect round O. It is as if he studied a manual on how to be a human being, with attention to the chaper, 'Demonstrating Surprise.'

sorter studied (Brer Rabbit). later, actually. designed. assumed, tried. stances, attitudes, postures.

A Mind At Peace opening page: His first order of business was to hire a nurse. Given that neither Ihsan's wife nor his mother ever stepped away from the sickbed, the children languished in ruin. The elderly servant could easily handle Ahmet but someone had to fully occupy his little sister Sabiha. More than anything she needed an interlocutor. As Mumtaz mused, he smiled inwardly at the various postures of his little niece.

Lilo yellow duck onesy

Lilo ! .. "lit-tle arms" ..

wiggle wiggle wiggle "lit-tle arms" .. "we're gonna put on some cream. and then we're gonna put on a di-aper!"