Mar
11
Growing up
Today Emma was using a mechanical pencil for the first time in her life. She called it a shooter and called the lead needles. She put a ponytail on her wrist, scooted it up to her elbow; she found her biggest vein and proceeded to pretend inject herself with what she called “magic pencil potion.” And then later I noticed, as I read her a story about dancing teddy bears learning about sharing, that she had given herself a huge hickey on her forearm from sucking skin.
For a six year old, these behaviors seemed comically curious.
