Thursday

Anna put on my glasses this morning while we were just waking up and snuggling in bed. She climbs in our bed silently sometime around 5 AM and I always wake up to her stinky morning breath and to the smell of her wet overnight diaper. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's a good thing she's so cute!
She always tries to get me to perk up and jump out of bed in the morning. She really goes about this the wrong way. Anyone who knows me well knows how to deal with me in the morning: quiet, slow voice, no sudden movements, and give me at least a three-feet radius of personal space! But Anna keeps hoping that her morning sunshine will be contagious, and Mama will wake up in a delightful mood just like her. She is so LOUD! If every other noise, person, music, etc. was not considered to be TOO LOUD!!! by Anna, I would get a little concerned about her hearing. Anyways, in the morning, she sticks my Hello Kitty alarm clock in my face and says: WHAT TIME IT IS MAMA!!! So close that I would NEVER be able to discern any of the digits! Then she tries a different tactic: she gets my glasses from the bedside table and tries to put them on my face. She knows this is what I do when I am really serious about waking up and getting out of bed. I think she thinks my glasses are like my power button or something. Like I am just a robot she can activate somehow. But today, she put them on her own face. Then she said, "Whoa! I'm up HIGH!" and started giggling hysterically. Even in my grouchy bear state, I smiled a little. Then she got right up in my face and said, "MAMA! You forgot to brush your teeth!" I told her that I did brush my teeth, just last night! I had not brushed them yet this morning considering I was still trying to be ASLEEP! Then I told her that she had stinky morning breath too! She rolled her eyes at me and said, "It's not morning breath, Mama! It's bedtime breath."
I guess this makes sense. She always calls breakfast bedtime snack, because this is what we eat when we get out of bed! The thing about Anna is that she is always so sure of herself. It is hard to teach her anything, because she is so sure that she is right. You can state a simple fact, like "The sky is blue." And she will look at you with her little face all scrunched up and her nose all wrinkled, and say, "The sky is not blue!" In SUCH an incredulous little voice that you start to think, "Wait a minute, is the sky blue?" That's why I call Anna my little sassafras. Because she is sassy and sweet! She is so expressive when she talks that it makes Dave and I laugh even when she is trying to tell us something serious. But the way she talks with her hands and tosses her head and rolls her eyes around is just plain funny. I told Dave last night at dinner that she reminds me of those bad child actors on Barney. Except for she is just over-acting in real life. Which makes it cute and endearing instead of obnoxious and strangle-inducing. I don't know why people are always ragging on Barney the purple dinosaur. He really is not the problem. His castmates are the ones who are super annoying!
PS I forgot the other thing that Anna said to me this morning. When she finally managed to annoy me enough to get me out of bed, she immediately started critiquing my sleepwear. "Those don't match, Mama! Those pants are flower and all beautiful, and that top (crinkling nose in disgust) is not all beautiful! It's just not." Well, excuse me, but I had failed to sleep in matching pjs! I had some very pretty pajama bottoms on, and an ugly grey tank top that did not go with them. I will add this to my list of what not to do in the morning: don't make snarky comments about my appearance. Actually, just don't ever do this. Unless you want to be on my list. (CHRIS!)