This, this, and the other this

Dylan has learned that "this" can substitute for any word she doesn't know or can't say. Hence a weekend of sort of existential conversations.

"This! This! Thisthisthisthisthis!"

"Dylan, what is this?"

"THIS! Me me this."

"Okay, your this. All the this is yours."

She's also started making a valiant effort to say her own name, beyond the DILL that's she's been doing for a long time. It comes out as DIHmuttermutter so I didn't figure out what she was saying until she did it at a picture of herself this morning.

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We did the full kid-in-summer stuff again this weekend. Saturday we went to an air show, so it was nice to finally show Dylan what Daddy does at work all day. It was a lot more than just death defying plane stunts (where more = massive military recruitment effort), although they did tend to dominate the experience. In fact, the goal of just about every plane seemed to be to get us absolutely convinced that it was going to plummet into the earth any second, but no! He's (I'm pretty sure these were men we're talking about here) gone up again! That careening must have been on purpose! Irritatingly, they wouldn't put the schedule online for security purposes. Nor could you bring your own food, also for security reasons, which did indeed avoid the danger of paying a reasonable price for your lunch. We went and poked around a couple of HUGE cargo planes they had lying around, although that led to some confusion as to when the up up sky part was going to happen, now that we were on a plane and everything. Also, I joined the army, as long as I was there.

Today we went to Seabreeze. I can't believe I hadn't been there the whole time we've lived here, but that's all behind us now. What you don't realize until you get the general public in a bathing suit is that everyone in the world has a tattoo. Or maybe that's just what we epidemiologists call selection bias (sorry, sorry too much science immersion lately). It was really crowded and we had to quickly remove Dylan from two of the three rides she asked to go on (due to: freaking out), but the third one, cars going around a track, was awesome and she was so happy and proud. She did laps around, but not quite in, the water play area for a good long time and every time she inadvertently got wet she got this ridiculous shocked expression on her face and would pause and look for me to make sure I had seen what just happened.