Margo's first Birthday

Margo had her first birthday this month (the 21st). The first birthday is probably the hardest to by gifts for since she doesn't know what's going on, much less appreciate her gift. So, she got clothes and books. She also got a cookie jar which she finally got the hang of putting the plastic cookies into, so she's been enjoying that.

I feel bad, but it hasn't been until recently that I've really began to appreciate Margo. I've always loved her, but it's only lately that she interacts and tries to wrestle that I've grown more attached to her. Before that she basically just cried a lot and pooped. I'm sure I would of felt this way a while ago, but Audrey tends to dwarf everything around her with her personality. That includes Margo's birthday, where she would run from one family member to the other wanting attention, and Margo would wander off to a corner to play by herself. I felt bad and made a point to stick close to her. It was her birthday after all.

So, Margo can make the "milk" sign with her hand now. I still need to get it on tape. She also meows like a kitten and makes "aaah" sounds after chugging down some milk.

Audrey on the other hand has started a relationship with an imaginary friend called "Tiny Tyrone". That would be Tyrone from the Backyardigans. This knowledge happened on one of the most horrifying days of my life.

I came home from work with the kids and let Audrey watch Max and Ruby which is a really, really safe show. But, Audrey managed to extract something sadistic from it by pretending to be "super bunny" like on the show. But, as she ran around the house yelling, "I'm Super Bunny!" she weilded a plastic knife from her little kitchen set. When I came into the room she yelled, "I'm going to cut you!"
"Wait, what?!" I asked.
"I'm going to cut you- I'm super bunny!"
"why do you want to cut me?"
"Because I don't like you!" she said cheerfully, and proceeded to slice me across my cheeks and throat. It was insane. I watched the episode later, and didn't see any reference to 'cutting' anything.

Later that evening she informed me that she had a friend, Tiny Tyrone. The same from the show, but he's really tiny. For some reason he's always crawling around on the ceiling and she needs to get him down. The only thing I've ever heard about imaginary friends comes from a vincent price audio book I heard as a kid, and that invisible friend told the kid to kill people. I figured it was Tiny Tyrone that put the knife in my kids hand.

Later that evening, when we were putting her down for bed, she got fussy and Erin decided that we wouldn't read a book to her because she wasn't listening. That sent Audrey off, as expected- what wasn't expected was that she would start running around in a circle in her room yelling, "Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!" I slept lightly that night.

The next day I figured that I should try to play it safe and make amends to what ever I did to piss off Tiny Tyrone, so I helped Audrey make a small home for him out of a Sleepy-Time Tea box. Including wallpaper, a rug and a kitchen drawn on one wall. I cut out a window and Audrey cut out pictures from a magazine to glue on the walls. Erin origamied a bed and drew a pillow on it. Hopefully that will appease him.