Important List Stuff
I am a list person. I start every day with a fresh To Do list and then my lists grow lists and everything exists somewhere on a list. There are lists for the places we need to be, lists for the things I need to buy, and lists for the things that need to happen far in the future.
If I combine the lists, sometimes they make decisions easy. Will there be destruction? Is there a chance that things might catch fire? Is chaos likely? THEN MILA NEEDS TO GO THERE.
That's how we ended up at a Monster Truck thing this past weekend. Alexis has lived that adventure before and liked it, despite being completely out of her element, but Mila had not. AND HOOBOY IS THAT HER ELEMENT.
Mila spent most of the show sitting in my lap, eyes locked on the action below. It was all very serious business, so there was no smiling or laughing, but I think that may be because she was focused on learning. She learned how to flip a truck over just by driving up a hill. She learned how to smash a truck up just the right amount so that it both sparks a fire and remains driveable. That's key, really. It's no fun setting something on fire unless you can drive around with fire. Because fire.
Mila learned a lot that evening.
And so did I.
I learned that it's really super important not to block Mila's view of fire and big trucks. Because if you do? If you happen to prevent her from being able to see what she wants to see?
She will destroy you with just one look.
I'm putting that at the top of my list. Never again will I anger Tiny Human quite that much.
I hope.
Monday, February 13, 2017