April 17th, 2003

Yesterday we had Matthew over to play with Sophia. This is one of the few times we’ve had someone over to our house for her to play with and it’s clear we need to do this more often. Sophia acted pretty bratty and would cry every time Matthew would take any one of her toys, whether she was interested in it or not. I know that she’s a little too young to do the sharing thing, but it’s also clear we have to give her more opportunities to share, or she’ll never learn. She seems fine at daycare, and at other people’s houses, so we were a bit surprised by her last night, but I guess in all those other places she understands that the toys don’t belong to her. Hopefully Matthew will be able to come over more in the future, and maybe some other children as well, as they had a great time overall and Sophia clearly needs the practice sharing her toys.

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I know this isn’t the spirit of the thing, but I’ll be really pleased when I can have chocolate again (that’s this Sunday, for those who are latecomers). Yesterday I stood in front of the vending machine and almost pushed the buttons for the 3 Musketeers, thinking nothing of it. Then, before actual execution of the crime I caught myself and started mentally berating myself: Geeeez girl, what are you doing? Think! It’s chocolate. Can you imagine how hard it would have been to not eat it if you were holding it in your hand? The tipoff should have been the fact that a 3 Musketeers looked good to me. I have nothing against 3 Musketeers and I find them perfectly tasty, but given a full chocolate array of choices, many many other candy bars top the list. Toblerone, for one. Milky Way Darks. Kit-Kats. Butterfingers. Mmmmmmmmm, chocolate.

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