Family Fragments

♠ Maia is 7 years old.

♠ Cats are in, bunnies are out.

♠ Her favourite activity is reading chapter books. She finishes them so quickly (and retains the story) that it's never cost-effective to purchase books. It's fun hearing her pronounce words she's only read in books, like "abyss" and "grotto". One of her current favourite series is Dragon Masters, but I also got her into Peggy Parish's classic Bill, Liza, and Jed mysteries that I read as a kid.

♠ After watching or reading anything, she will make crafts or games about the story. Her bedroom is often a spider web of scarves and pipe cleaners tied together for some obscure purpose.

♠ Her favorite dinner is my baked chicken wings with Italian seasonings. Runner-up is probably a hot dog.

♠ She has a high emotional intelligence and starts almost every sentence with "I feel like..."

♠ Maia plays 0 - 1 hours of video games daily, currently alternating between Animal Crossing, Pokemon Shield, Stardew Valley, and Dragon Quest IX on the DS.

♠ When dancing, she is always dancing like no one is watching.

♠ Ian is 3.

♠ His favourite game and TV show is Hot Wheels. A common dialogue pattern in the kids' show is someone saying, "I chooooose.... the <car name>!". He incorporates this template into conversations all day long, from Hot Wheels to weather conditions. "I choooose the PARTLY SUNNY!".

♠ Ian also likes puzzle balls, self-contained marble mazes that require hand-eye coordination or else your marble will fall off. He has gotten good enough to get over 1/4th of the way through the puzzle by the rules, and has also figured out how to make the marble jump near the end and finish it.

♠ Ian's favourite color is purple, and he carries his raccoon and clownfish stuffed animals all over.

♠ He's not particularly excited about any one food other than yogurt, but he'll eat tons of anything (except fish or eggs) while distracted.

♠ Ian is reading. Over the weekend, he watched me play Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door and yelled, unprompted, "You struck first!" when those words appeared on the screen.

♠ Rebecca and I sometimes say that Ian is a 7-year-old trapped in a 3-year-old body.

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