Me no yike ke-tin

Emer doesn't like skeletons. When I mention the museum at Oxford, she says this, often. Over and over, even.

And I just checked out Little House In The Big Woods which I have always loved madly and it's all dead meat and shooting animals for food. Which I approve of, and all, I'm just not sure how difficult it will be to manage this with Linnea. There's too much of it to skip, really, the first instance is on page 4, so I'd have to introduce the characters, skip a chunk of the book, and then move on, skipping bits here and there. Linnea's not much into skipping - she tends to know what page we're on.

I got the vegetarian bug early. Then replaced it with the bloodthirsty bit, then went vegetarian again, and now I'm a happy animals eater. Linnea periodically expresses concern about meat-eating animals, animals being made of meat, people being animals, people being made of meat, and people eating meat. So either I could use the books to work through this stuff or I could upset her madly.

Eep. Help.

Grownups are dumb

The other day there was too much poo in the world. I cleaned it all up and said to Linnea, "Can I have a hug?"

"No."

"Aw, give me a hug."

"No!" (laughing).

"Pleeeeease give me a hug or I will EXPLODE!" (I'm strict about not using emotional blackmail to get hugs, but I'm allowed to use silliness).

She laughed, gave me a hug, then very seriously said "There you go. Now you're ok. You know, you won't explode, because your skeleton is made of bones and it will hold you together."