CMOA

I really like this place (and so does Naomi). Thursday evenings are the best...from 4-6 it is pay-as-you-wish...plus because it is relatively near rush hour, travel time sticks to just over half an hour (less if you're already at the 96th and Lexington playground). Some part of me recognizes that maybe we should be outside all the time because it is summer, but I really feel like the heat is just life-sucking after much more than an hour or two. Maybe I just need to be running through the fountains more like Naomi. By the way, a word about the last post. A friend remarked today (after Naomi poured water on his kid's head at the park) that Naomi is both a fighter and a lover. It's true. For her, so much of the time the fighting and the loving are really one and the same. It really isn't a question of malice or ill-will, nor is it really of being completely out of control (she'll give anything back to another kid when asked firmly by an adult). It's just...tempting. She loves having water poured over her, so....she pours water on others to initiate a good waterfight. She laughs hysterically when chased, so she steals something from an unsuspecting kid to initiate a chase. What Naomi really is is a not-fully-trained puppy. I do believe there is a time and place for everything...it just remains to fully train her on the right times and places for each way of acting and being. Far be it from me to suggest that mischeiviousness is inherently, unilaterally bad.