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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

My crunchy kid...

We've already established that I am the antithesis of the term "crunchy granola"; Evie, on the other hand, may be a little hippie-mama-in-the-making:

*she's WAAAAYYY into co-sleeping. I'm pretty sure she'd be on board if we decided to sell our bed on craiglist, set up a futon mattress on our bedroom floor and enjoy the family bed until she's sixteen. NOT that there's anything wrong with that...

*the kid FLIPS out if I don't provide "toppy" for her yogurt, strawberries, etc. And by "toppy", I mean wheat germ or ground flaxseed meal. She uses her thumb and her pointer finger to then scrape all the toppy off of the particular food item and eats it plain. Blech. ME, on the other hand? Give me aspartame any day.

*She could go indefinitely without bathing and totally be fine with that. Maybe she's joining the no-poo movement?

*She would possibly also be on board with the idea of breastfeeding until she is sixteen, kinda like this kid. I, however, am not. (NOT that there's anything wrong with that...)

*She loves tie-dye.

*She's very into the concept of "gentle discipline". In fact, if we just indefinitely scrapped the idea of spanking, she'd be a happy girl.

Then again, she also imbibes mass quantities of "bustard" (read=mustard) by the spoonful, could watch PBS Kids till her eyes get red and pussy, and enjoys any kind of brainless, made-in-China toy that goes 'zip' when it moves, and 'pop' when it stops, and "whirrrr" when it stands still. So maybe I'm infecting her with my toxic philosophies after all...



(Sporting her organic cotton tie-dye shirt and smiling for the camera. Just kidding, it's not organic. And those marks on her arm? NOT tribal henna markings, just non-homemade paint.)

5 comments:

mama k said...

too funny.

W loves "sprinkles" on all of his food. (Flax, wheat germ, coconut shreds etc.) But he also loves him some french fries so it all evens out, huh?

Ashlea said...

you two are too cute. and crunchy or not i think evie is pretty much amazing and you're doing an incredible job at being her mom.

ctf said...

i have seen the bustard eating first hand. Squirt some of that on a piece of paper and you'll have both hours of fun and a tasty snack. :)

nanajobx said...

you say your not crunchy but i beg to differ. non-crunchy moms don't buy those kind of sprinkles :)

Gretchen said...

yeah, i agree w/ mom. y'know, the whole cloth-diaper thing.
also, what about pup-pup? does she still love that?