Wednesday morning we were heading off to meet Meaghan and see Timmy in Fl. for 5 days. Since Christmas one of Annie's favorite pass times is to push her mini shopping cart all around the house collecting anything that isn't nailed down and throwing it in her cart. She repeats this with purses she drags, usually, from my closet.
Annie Kate had her panda back pack all set to go to Fl. As Tim handed it to her she pretended the straps were too big, dropped it on the floor and started crying: " No work, It no work!" She then proceeded to go to my closet to retrieve the red, Paten Leather Coach purse she had been "borrowing" lately. Dora the Explorer, sunglasses and a "juicy box" were hastily thrown in the purse and we were off to the airport.
When we arrived at the FL rental car I was struggling to secure Annie's car seat in the van.
Annie climbed into the front seat and appeared as if she might attempt to drive the car away herself,
so the very nice Hertz man asked her if she wanted to see all the airplanes. As I was buckling and tugging on the car seat I heard him say: " You need to hold my hand, you must have a hand in that sweater somewhere!"
In that split second my mind was trying to figure out do I tell him, actually she doesn't have that hand or do I just keep quiet? With the car seat now in place the man returned to try and place a non compliant Annie in the seat. To distract her, he asks," what is your name?" For the first time she replies: "Annie" instead of Xin Tian The man then asks her how many planes did we see? They start counting together but he is showing her how to count to ten in sign language...which only requires one hand...and she followed his lead.
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