Beanie is a force of nature.

I stayed home on Friday because both she and PF were sick. Except her being sick? You wouldn't notice unless you realized her nose was leaking and her cheeks are rubbed raw from tissues. She can blow her own nose, but sometimes misses on the wipe-away. That's only truly exciting when you are eating eggs or something gloppy.


On Saturday I took her to Museum Day. We stopped into a big warehouse coffee place that's pretty new, and she LOVED how it echoes her ridiculously high pitched squeaks. It ain't opera, it's painful. But it's full of joy. How can you say "No!" ???
We say "Use your inside voice." I have no idea if she gets it, but she does seem to be overwhelmed with her own efforts in the car, so we are usually safe there. The coffeeplace? Echoed with Beaniness. I totally want to go back for their muffins too.

I also took her to The Discovery Museum. She loved it. I lost her about a million times because she raced around, doubled back, tripped up old people, and sat in little corners (like a miniature log cabin that I looked inside of 3X before I finally actually saw her grinning back at me by the little stove.) She's scary. I was thrilled for the plexiglass encased balconies, lemme tell ya. She tried to launch herself at stairwells and mannikins and cannon and museum case displays, but I managed to keep tabs on her for the most part. I thought she'd go to sleep.

Nope. So we headed to Hamburger Mary's. Where she ate only fries and stuck her hands in my salad a million times. She tried the burger, but I think my tyke is going to end up vegetarian or chickenarian. She just is not a fan of the Red, Red, Meat. I heart it mightily. Hamburger Mary's plumb tuckered her out.

She passed out in the car and we cut our Museum explorations short. That was fine, I was ex.haus.ted.

But the best part? Our friend who came with us and her son got to hear some of the Beanie Babble. Like her saying "cookie" and whining for a "sy-nack", or chanting "Ashes Ashes" and pointing out dogs and saying "eyes....fouf" for her eyes and mouth and the Wa wa wa Wheee she says like Borat. She has been running around yelling "e-i-e-i-oh" too, mostly because I like to sing that one. But Ashes Ashes....she grins and spins in circles until she falls down if you even MENTION rosies or posies. Hilarious.


We have also started time-outs.

Time outs are fun right now. She appears to really like them. Maybe we need to find The Uncomfy Chair. We've been using her little painted chair set and just moving it into the hallway for her to sit on for 30 seconds or more if she gets off the chair. She's got it down. She will sit for a minute or more and will ignore you and wave you away when you say "time out is over". Then, after awhile, she will peek around the wall at you to see if you are still there, and if you are? She runs back to sit on her chair. You basically have to lure her out with Ring Around The Rosie, and then she comes tearing out wanting to dance.

She's a kook.