Tori’s Writing Hole

I was going to write about 9/11… seven years ago, the horror, the still gaping hole in our society and the fear, oh the fear…

But then I decided to move on and write about my daughter, perhaps my favorite subject in the world. You know how photogs have favorite subjects? Well, as a writer, nothing can be more fascinating than watching the development of a mini-me.

She’s naughty now, oh so naughty - I guess all that angelic behavior caught up with us and we’re experiencing the torrid three’s. She’s grown, oh how she’s grown in the last few months (perhaps some of her mood change is because of this?) and wears a size 4-5 now.

The best is her mind - her beautiful, twisted mind. Her new favorite game comes at lunch time, when I administer the organic, tiger shaped chewable (crunchy) vitamins. Julia was used to gummies, but these were better for her and on sale, so we got them. However, the eating of the vitamins requires a bit of coaxing, resulting in the twisted game. Julia eats two vitamins, and makes sure that one is labeled “Mommy Kitty” and the other, “Big Girl Kitty”. I must make the Mommy Kitty talk to the Big Girl Kitty about how nice it is to go into Julia’s mouth, be crunched up and end up in her tummy. Then, depending on the day, Mommy or Big Girl kitty “leaps” into Julia’s mouth and is eaten.

Weird enough? There’s more - then, the remaining kitty (remember, these are vitamins) gets sad, because her mommy/daughter has been eaten. So, I have to coax that vitamin into Julia’s mouth by asking “don’t you want to be in Julia’s tummy with your other kitty?”

The whole thing seems quite perverse, the eating, the personification of berry flavored vitamins, but hey, whatever works, right? I’m not turning Julia into a cold blooded kitten eater, am I?

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