Kayleigh's Page

Here's our daughter Kayleigh. She's in a bad mood because you went to somebody else's page first rather than hers. Don't you think that hers is the most interesting page? What were you thinking?

Kayleigh leads a very difficult life these days. For example, sometimes three days a week the family goes without dessert. Other times, her parents don't think to make her stop playing with her friends before "Arthur" is on, and she misses it for that day. And then sometimes her sister Julianna bugs her when she's trying to do stuff. Luckily, her melodramatic tantrums at times like these keep the family in line and things don't continue to deteriorate to the point where a week would pass without eating pasta for dinner.

For Halloween Kayleigh was a princess -- a mythical princess with her Beanie-Baby unicorn named "Mystic". Kayleigh is very interested in stories of elves and orcs and unicorns and princesses and dragons these days, and she has her Dad tell her them whenever she can (pictures are on her Dad's page). Kayleigh will lose a lot of respect for her father's creativity when she learns that he shamelessly plagiarizes from the works of others when telling them! The one problem is that sometimes in the stories the orcs win. In the end, of course, they never do, but Kayleigh might be forced to go for a couple days without a story after a great orcish victory, and this is almost more than she can stand.

Kayleigh hates school (except when she's there). She loves flowers and plants. She hates when people do or say mean things to other people (like when they tag people out in baseball). She loves to play games after dinner. She hates peppers. She loves when she gets driven to school (she usually has to ride in the bike trailer, and that's a real drag because her dad is all sweaty when he gets there).

Click here to see a story Kayleigh dictated when she was three and a half.

Here are some more pictures (click on the thumbnail to enlarge):

Here is a picture Kayleigh drew in January. She added the text to explain what was happening. Try to read it. A parental translation is provided below.

OK, the writing, in case you are having trouble with some of the letters, says "TheMuceolretegotbNaN'ssoiTsgoigHoMMocegoIgtgetBoNaN's" and "ThePeriTI'sgogKoKo". Kayleigh is working on spaces as I write this (2-10-00), so soon they may become a more popular symbol with her. Anyway, what it says is: "The monkey already got bananas, so it's going home." That refers to the one on the left. Then, referring to the one on the right: "Monkey going to get bananas." The bit below is referring to the parrot (hard to see with the writing). It says "The parrot's going 'caw caw'". We derive great amusement in our house by reading Kayleigh's wonderful writings!

Next is a picture Kayleigh drew in March of '99. It's a spring picture. You can see that the flowers are sprouting out of the ground, even though the trees don't have any leaves on them yet. One of the trees has fallen down, which is typical of the forest that we go through in the morning to get to her school. Up at the top of the picture, you can see us biking by the forest. She is in her bike trailer, which is how she gets to school every day. I am in front, pulling the trailer, but you can only see my legs. This is, I understand, a typical view from the bike trailer. Speaking of which, if you like bike trailers (they're great!) check out the Burley Homepage. Burley trailers are certainly the best.

Here's a picture of Santa from Christmas '98:

Finally, here's a picture Kayleigh drew of some tigers in the summer of '98. To many adults, the tigers look sad, but it is important to realize that, in fact, they look mean. If you don't have a good picture in your head regarding what they look like, ask Kayleigh: "Hey, Kayleigh, how do these tigers look?" Then scroll up to the frowny-faced Kayleigh, as that is about how the conversation would go.

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