iPhone Self-portraits

One feature of my new phone that both children find incredibly entertaining is the ability to take self-portraits.

Bridal Party--Blast from the Past

It is hard to believe this picture was taken almost six years ago.

ETA: No, our wedding anniversary isn't coming up (it's in June) but I was thinking about how awesomely we all coordinated given that I told people to wear whatever they wanted as long as it was a pastel color. It came out better than I could have ever engineered it.

Where's My Slipper?

J: (holding up one blue slipper) I can't find my other slipper anywhere.

S: Oh, it's in R's vanity.

More Stuff R Does

--Call everything "mine!" As in, "this is MY house." "This R's pillow." "That's MY cereal." "That book is MINE!" Occasionally something will be Mommy's or Daddy's (like when she's assigning seats at the dinner table--yes, she really does this, and gets upset if you sit in a seat she hasn't specifically designated as yours) but usually everything is hers.

As of now, this trend is mostly cute, rather than annoying. Most of the stuff she identifies as hers really is hers-- as in, the bowl she's eating from, or the particular toy she's playing with at the time-- and if you tell her something isn't actually hers, she will usually but not always modify her phrasing so that said item is attached to the correct person.

--Insist on wearing flip flops. Grammie and Grampie sent R some adorable Dora the Explorer flip flops in her size and oh my goodness, she loves these shoes. She likes to wear my flip flops around the house, but now that she has Dora's flip flops, she wears those and brings me mine so I can put them on, because didn't you know, life is so much better if you're wearing flip flops. (Thank goodness she didn't inherit J's webbed toe!)

Stuff R Does

--Say her alphabet and sing the alphabet song over and over. Sometimes she likes to go straight from "A, B, C, D, E, F, G" to "Next time won't you sing with me" but other times she sings most of the letters, usually leaving out everything between S and Y.

--Count from one to 13, often starting at three and omitting one and two. Sometimes she goes up to 15, but she never says 14.

--Talk about walruses. At the doctor's office this afternoon (yes, she has a double ear infection & a chest infection) she pointed to an alphabet chart and identified the W and the walrus immediately. This started when we read Barbara Joosse's Mama, Do You Love Me? the other day and she talked about how scary the walrus was. Then the next day she brought up the "scaarry walrus" and J wanted to show her more walruses to maybe alleviate some of her scared-ness, so he went to this Fisher-Price alphabet game that my friend CraftyQueen recommended and showed her the cute little walrus in that game. Now she brings them up at random moments, often to tell us that walruses are scary.

Good Fortune

For dinner J wanted to get takeout from our favorite Asian restaurant in town. After dinner, we opened our fortune cookies. The fortunes in them could not have been more appropriate for us. What do you think?

R: "Smile, it'll make the world a little bit brighter"

J: "It is better to deal with problems before they arise"

S: "Dessert CAN make you happy"