Maureen

Yep. Anna was outside today with the croquet mallets which I let her use to play her hammerhead shark game (more on that later). She seemed like she was really beating the hell out of one of the sharks, so I stepped out and she had one of my cigarette packs on the ground and she was just pounding the shit out of it, saying "Stupid cigarettes!"

I've been doing the patch thing for over a month now and still smoke about 5 cigs a day (outside, never inside, so shut up). I think she's picked up on my struggle....

So, the Hammerhead sharks. We were watching Flipper the nice dolphin movie. I thought, perfectly appropriate for a 4 year old of her intelligence. Well, I didn't know there was a scene where an evil looking hammerhead shark breaches the water and devours a seagull. Since that moment she has been obsessed with Hammerhead sharks. It has been over a month. I can not tell you the stack of library books we have on the subject. She will no longer read any fluffy duffy goody two shoes books, she wants facts. She has at least strayed into squids, rays, crabs and other kinds of sharks, but man, for a while, it was just googling "hammerhead shark" to keep her happy.

By the way, we really don't play croquet, we just hit the balls--wickets are for sissies.