5 questions meme

[laurajv]

cereta asked me 5 questions! If you want me to ask you 5 questions, let me know in comments.


1. Toddlers: threat or menace? Alternately, how do you get your kid to go the fuck to sleep?

I obviously have some kind of problem where I think toddlers are basically small bouncy balls of fun. If I had to choose, I would say "menace"!

I'm lucky enough to have a kid who mostly sleeps, and can put himself to sleep pretty readily. I am not stupid enough to ascribe this to fantastic parenting on my part. I do think that "The No Cry Sleep Solution" helped us a LOT.

2. What is your #1 name choice for a girl?

I cannot answer this one, for my husband and I have an agreement not to discuss name selections outside the marriage when there is an active pregnancy. Ask me again after this kid is born: if she's a she, she'll be wearing the name; if he's a he, I'll cough up what he would've been if he were a she.

3. Why should I consider belly dancing?

Core strength and a generally body-positive environment. Also, it's fun, and helps develop a sense of rhythm if you don't have one (yes, that's a learnable skill).

4. What story of your own do you most often re-read?

I'm not really sure. Over the past decade, probably either Metempsychosis (Highlander) or Inclination (Sentinel x Star Trek). Recently, The House That Was (Sherlock).

5. What kid's book does the small one make you read over and over and over?

I am a defective reader, according to him. I am not NEARLY up to Dad's standards, and sometimes when Dad is on a business trip, he will go without a story rather than put up with my reading. His most common requests, therefore, are books with minimal actual reading: Jez Alborough's "HUG", or books with pictures of different animals/trucks/kinds of trains etc.

He makes his father re-read books like "Oh, The Places You'll Go" and "Earth to Clunk" endlessly, though. He loves long stories...just not when I'm reading them.