April 6

Wearing her chaps over a dress with leggings! She wanted to (you guessed it) wear a dress so she could dance again. I love that she finds no incongruity whatsoever in this outfit.

Earlier in the day she was "reading" a new poetry book that I brought out of storage and telling me all about it: "There's really good poems in this book, Mama. And it was written by a man named Center Cambridge. And he lives in North South. And there's a poem about a man going to sleep. And there's a train that says "choo, choo!" and a lion and an elephant and all sorts of adimals and there's kids in it too - gors and boys, there's gors and boys in it Mama! ...this is a good poem Mama!"