March Modness

Another month has passed and Those Notable, Quotable Reiner Girls remain cute, sassy, and quite quotable. So here goes.

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Hayden is learning to read at a fairly rapid pace and she has developed a newfound affection for Betty and Veronica comics. Choosing a favorite between the two is not a problem for our Hayden. She instinctively sides with the brunette who has all the money and clothes: Veronica.

To ensure that Hayden is instilled with the proper values, we have involved her more actively in deciding to what charity we should give the money in our tzedakah box. We talked about it and Hayden decided we should give the money to the homeless, reasoning "We should give them enough money so they could stay at the Plaza, like Eloise."

I think we'll need a bigger tzedakah box.

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Marley has also shown a particularly charitable nature lately. She made the following observation to Beth:

"Daddy hasn't lost his baby fat yet."

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Hayden's sympathy for others is not limited only to humans, mammals, animals, or even other life forms. Her teacher shared the following story with us.

Hayden's teacher, Nancy (no Mr. or Ms. in our hippie school), put a variety of shapes in front of a group of children and asked them to put the triangles in one pile and leave the other shapes in the other pile. All of the other children did this except for Hayden. Then Nancy asked the group what all of the triangles had in common, getting expected answers like "they all have three sides" or "they all have three corners."

Finally, Nancy asked Hayden why she didn't separate out her triangles from the other shapes. Hayden sat silently for a moment and then started to cry. Through her tears, she told Nancy "It's not fair to the other shapes that they don't have three sides."

This is classic Hayden. She's loving and compassionate, yet stubborn enough to think she can rewrite the ancient laws of geometry.

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We were visiting our Cohen cousins and Dylan and Marley were playing with a bunch of stuffed animals. Marley put several plush animals into a play tent and then walked up to me and said:

"Those are A-Listers, daddy."

I'll be looking for them on the red carpet on E! any day now.

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Speaking of fashion critiques, Hayden simply does not hold back. Not only is poor Beth not allowed by our girls to sing or dance in their presence, she can't escape a review of her wardrobe either.

One morning, Hayden told Beth that she was dressed like the nanny from Eloise at the Plaza and that she "needed to get a new look."

Forget what I said about Hayden being charitable all the time.