not your average princess

This girl is one SERIOUS dirt magnet. If she's not drugding through puddles, she's sticking her fingers up Shay's nose. If she's not rubbing oatmeal into her belly button, she's chewing on crunchy bugs. When it's time for bath (which often happens several times a day) there is mud under her nails, between her toes, and creased into her neck.

She also denies that it is EVER her fault :)

BUT, she sleeps good, she eats good, and she brings us SO MUCH JOY. She is talking up a storm, learning new words constantly, and understanding and speaking an equal amount of Creole and English. "Pita!" she waves when we leave someone, meaning "(see you) later!" and is learning lots of names, now adding "Gertha", "Abel" and "Micheline" to her vocabulary.

Every evening, after bath and story time, she climbs off my lap, walks over to her crib, and says, "UP"...and in the morning, we hear her calling, "OUT! OUT!" We've been working hard on "please"...

Despite all her love of dirt and "guckie" things, she is still our princess, adoring herself in my apron, and loves wearing mom's shoes and chapstick.

But the best? "Kiss". She puckers up her lips and gives good kisses, complete with a big "smack".