Re. Getting grey road spatter all up her back, from seat base of neck, while riding through the tunnels on the way to school on a rainy Friday morning.

"I don’t care!" AR calls with a big smile as I comment on the grey spatter all over her back, "I don’t want to be all shi-neee like the other girls in my class who ride in a cars and wear sequin shoes."

"Wow!" I comment "They weare sequin shoes?"

"Kira does. She has sequin shoes."

When we arrive at school, Annarose tries to see the spatter, her trophy from the morning’s soggy ride. She is a little disappointed that it isn’t bigger.