Simmi is just the sweetest little cutie pie and she always keeps us smiling and cracking up laughing. She is this delicate little flower, uniquely scented with a thrill for life, curiosity, tenacity and pith. Do you remember when you were a child eating cinnamon toast? I do, and that is what Simone reminds me of…cinnamon toast. Now, some people may not like cinnamon toast, but let me tell you what I found so delicious about it as a child….
Cinnamon toast is made by first toasting your favorite bread, adding a fairly large amount of really yummy butter and finally sprinkling on sugar and cinnamon. Next cut it in half or quarters if you’d like put it in your mouth and enjoy! As a child, I can recall the pure satisfaction of eating something so crunchy, buttery, sweet and spicy. This is Simone…cinnamon toast at its finest.
As I watched her playing with Noah, I cocked my head to the side and thought to myself, “If she were an object…what would she be? How would I describe her?” And as I sat wondering, that’s when it hit me that she is cinnamon toast!
So why is she cinnamon toast to me? Well, lets start with the bread…
Bread before its toasted is soft and warm. When I was young, for some peculiar reason, I liked to hold a fresh
slice of bread up to my cheek. Next, I loved to smell it. It’s a simple pleasure I had as a child. Well, Simmi is like a slice of fresh bread and I love it when she presses her cheek up against mine. While she is close I can smell her sweetness and love, and I close my eyes and take it all in. Those moments don’t last but a few seconds…just like devouring cinnamon toast!
The bread when toasted becomes crunchy with a texture that complements the butter, sugar and cinnamon. That crunchiness I liken to her ability to change her mood in a split second and all the sudden she is saying “No” just for the hell of it. Or when we are playing with her, it is her way or the highway! Like I said…crunchy! It’s amazing how bread can go from being soft and warm, to crunchy with a unique flavor. It’s the same bread isn’t it? LOL
Next thing I liken Simmi to is the butter…
There is a saying in the cooking world, “You can never have enough butter!” This is true of Simone as well. We can never have enough of her. Butter is slick and slippery, melts when the heat is turned up, and can alter your own appearance if you eat too much of it! Simmi is all of those things. If she is doing something naughty or that I don’t approve of, I will deepen my voice a little to alert her to the fact that “I said NO”, and what does she do? She tries to change the subject by jabbering on about the “dah” (dog) that we don’t even have. So I will bring the conversation back and say “Mama said NO” but she will interrupt again, jabbering on even stronger. She’s trying to change the subject so that I will not speak to her in a tone that will make her uncomfortable. She’s slick and slippery…like butter. Have you ever gotten butter on your hands? It doesn’t come off easily though does it? It takes a fair amount of soap to remove that slippery feeling from your 
hands or face…the same is true of Simone. Sometimes Simmi is so good at being slick, I’m left shaking my head thinking, “what the heck just happened?” How the heck did she just get away with that? I can tell you how…Poppie and Noah! My husband and my son are both wayyyyyyyyy bigger than Simmi, and yet they follow her around and do exactly what she wants! She loves them dearly, but the both of them have a very hard time saying no to her! Just like butter! Who can resist yummy butter? Butter melts when the heat is turned up, and when I tell Simmi I want her to do something and she doesn’t want to, she melts. She literally falls on the floor and will lay there. When the heat is turned really high on butter, it will start to bubble and finally scald and burn…same with Simmi. As she becomes angry at my requests, she will start to say “no seep” (no sleep) or “no eat” over and over and over again. Its like she is bubbling up and about to burn. Scalded butter doesn’t taste so good when it turns a yucky brown color, and when Simmi begins to scald with her high pitch screaming, all you can do is cringe and try to remove her from the situation.
When cool butter is applied to toasted bread, it melts but doesn’t scald. You can see the butter melt into the bread, and you know the sugar and cinnamon will absorb right in, making the cinnamon toast oh so good.
Next is the sugar….
Simmi is like pure unadulterated sugar. There isn’t a real mean bone in her body. Of course she has her 
moments where she can be snippy and will object to anything you may have to say, but she isn’t intentionally mean. She doesn’t hit out of anger, although she has swiped at me, Dom or Noah once or twice. Right now she is going through a phase where out of the blue she will just say “no hit!” yet no one is hitting her. We don’t spank or hit her ever. BUT, none the less, there she is saying “NO HIT!” I figured it out the other day why she keeps saying it. The other day I got into her crib to change her and she was standing up with her feet firmly planted between the slats of the crib. I told her “Mama needs to change you, come.” She says no, and stands her ground. I get up and begin to pry her off the crib, and I lay her down. At that point, she is saying no, no, no! So I tell her I have to change her. Then she says “NO HIT!” I look at her odd and wonder as usual why this child is saying “no hit” when no one hits her…then it dawned on me that she wasn’t telling me not to hit her, but she was saying out loud what she was thinking…”no hit mama”. I believe that she has an impulse to hit us, but she will correct herself and say “no hit!”
I love her smile, her laugh is infectious, and her personality is addicting. She is pure entertainment. Sweetness itself.
And finally Simmi is the cinnamon…
Cinnamon has a unique flavor that can turn the ordinary into extraordinary! What would toast with butter and sugar be like without the cinnamon? BORING! Cinnamon has this mellow flavor that infiltrates every nook and cranny of a piece of toast. A little cinnamon goes a long way! Our lives would be a little boring I think if Simone wasn’t here. She adds that hint of spice to our lives, that leave us satisfied and very content.
Like I said…cinnamon toast! Yum!
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