1. After I tell her that when she stands with one hand on her hip, scrunches up her eyes, and sticks out her tongue at me it hurts my feelings and makes me not want to play with her, she bursts into tears and tells me she loves me so much, she wasn’t doing it to me.

2. Pratfalls crack her up.

3. The new pen set, fifty different colors, sends her into paroxysms of joy.

4. She leans into me when we read stories.

5. She likes to sit on my lap.

6. If I bring the supplies, she willingly assembles her own picnic lunch—tofu spread on crackers with pickles and cheese.

7. She is ever eager to wash the sink and scrubbing the outdoor glass table is a special treat.

8. She is pretty sure a magic fairy didn’t take her wishing doll, the girl one in the green dress that she put under her pillow, but she isn’t completely certain.

9. She likes the Short Sisters and can sing all the words to COFFEE (not for children is this Turkish brew; hurts the brain and the nervous system too.)

10. In the prolonged tale of the unicorn, the Pegasus, the princess, the fairy, the gold, and the rainbow, she named the queen Debby.