Monday, November 9, 2009

Sophie

I feel like I've been posting a lot of Emma stuff lately, so here's a funny Sophie story from today and some recent video moments of our mercurial almost-two-year-old...

A heavily perfumed woman dressed in a shiny leopard-print jogging suit sat next to us at Jiffy Lube. Her face was caked with makeup - sloppy red lipstick, bright orange rouge, ice blue eyeshadow, mascara-clumped fake lashes...the whole nine yards. Sophie, true to form, immediately climbed into my lap at the sight of a stranger. The woman got right into Sophie's face and started shouting, "Hey! Little girl! Don't be afraid of me, I won't hurt you." Every time Sophie leaned away, the woman leered ever closer. Finally, Soph buried her face in my chest and begged, "No clown Mommy, no clown."