livvy's routine, starting around 6pm, is to beg to be fed, and then when her food is out, to just bother whoever put the food out. meowing, climbing on them, meowing more, purring, etc... all to the exclusion of any attention being paid to the food that was just served.
she also does this any time there's a center of attention that isn't her.
i was sitting next to my daughter this morning while she was eating breakfast and talking to her. cue livvy, meowing and climbing on me until i held her in my lap.
then of course my daughter began petting the cat. that's what she wanted.
my daughter asked how we could pull off the cat's whiskers. i suggested that we don't pull off the cat's whiskers. i know what would happen if she tried that.
Since I live alone, with my cat, he's come to believe that when I'm talking, it's talking to him, despite phone calls, or visiting outside with neighbors, or having friends over... It's like he feels betrayed when I speak to anyone other than him!
we do have pipe cleaners. we even use them for their intended purpose (a few of her cups have built-in straws that are difficult to clean any other way)
i don't know if the desire to pluck the cat's whiskers was costume related or something else.
@leslietownes Hah! I remember a story about my niece (sister's daughter) at about three, at a gathering with her father's extended family. After sitting on Aunt Olga (aunt to my niece's grandpa), she came back to her Mom and whispered (Aunt Olga has whiskers!)
The Mean Square might have an idea about make up to make her face look scary when she roars!
Well not about make up, but anything approximating his grumpy face would work. I'd leave the make up part to your wife, though.
Maybe a mouth insert with fangs, so when she roars, she looks the part. (But I think her attempt with her own face and roar to look scary will be precious to capture!
we sometimes roar at each other. when she gets too scared and i stop because i don't want to overwhelm her, she usually tells me to roar again. or pauses and then does a really fierce roar.
they do have some party at school. re the rest, i dunno. we live in a neighborhood that has almost no children in it, so we'd have to go somewhere. we'll probably skip that aspect.
our daughter basically doesn't know that candy exists, no need for her to learn now. :)
she looks wild in all of her school pics because she's never had a haircut. all of her classmates appear to have had them. we don't think it's necessary, with her unvaccinated (and a lot of others too)
