Leilani has been in a really bad mood for the last week and a half now. Her nose is runny, we don’t know if that’s a sign of teething or a beginning cold. She is also still bringing Lavender to Kiko’s grave and singing him the healing song.
Anyway… she has liked temporary tatoos ever since her cousin Lilith gave her a ducky 4 months ago, we used them in early potty training, as rewards, and – like this time – as bribes: Yesterday when she was crying and whining about everything I walked up to her with 2 Thomas the train tatoos (one was Percy actually) and sugested if she promised to be good, I’d put one on each of her forearms. This made her smile and promise right away. I told her if she continued to whine I’d wash them off [I later told Sonja that taking back wasn’t a good behavior model].
Well, I forgot, and she continued to whine. Today I put sunscreen on her, including the forearms (between 2 whining episodes) and this made Thomas and Percy fade – oil takes the tatoos off. A little later she complained again, using her worst voice, and clinged to me – I saw that one of the tatoos was completely gone and the other one almost. I told her “See, you are so whiney, that the tatoos are fading” Leilani looked at me with an expression that reminded me very much of Andy and said “Sunscreen!”. Of course Andy heard it, and I think it made him very happy…