Hot Mess

Our girl becomes a bigger mess every day - and I love her more and more every day.  She is absolutely hilarious and she keeps us rolling all day every day.  Some things I want to always remember:

*Today she was laying in our bed (she had gotten herself under the covers and on the pillow) watching Dora and I heard her yell for me.  I walked around the corner and I said, 'Yes ma'am?' and she said, 'I need a drink!'  I laughed and asked her to ask nicely and when I came back in the room with her drink I asked her if her highness would like anything else and she said, 'Uh huh, I need some grapes.'

*When she is doing something like cleaning up and you ask her to get a specific piece she'll say, 'Oh, I'm sorry!' or 'Oh, I missed!'

*When you ask her to do something she'll say, 'Of course I will!  That sounds like a great idea!'

*While she is in the bath playing, she'll ask one of us to come 'take her a bath'.

*While we were home we saw Mimi, Papa, Jeffro, and Penelope.  Every night when Mimi gets Penelope out of the bathtub she runs into the living room naked and Papa gets her butterbeans (pinches her butt).  Papa wasn't there the other night and so Jason was the stand in.  Since then, he has been getting Caroline's butterbeans.  She will scream and run the other way.  Then she'll turn around and say, 'Daddy, I'm going to get your butterbeans!'

*Target has their own Goldfish called Chickadees.  Caroline calls them Chickaneese.

*Every time that Max or Harley get near her or licks her she says, 'I think they like me!'

*The 'friend' count in her bed right now is up to twenty.  I tried to take a few out the other day to give her some room and she called me out and asked me where every one of them were.  I have to sweep them to the end just to get her into the bed.

*Her baby doll came with a stroller and a car seat.  She hasn't done a whole lot with that car seat since she got it at Christmas.  Now, however, that car seat has to go with us every time.  She puts the baby in the car seat, we seat belt her in, and then Caroline talks to her while we drive.

*Monsters Inc has been all over everything lately with the new movie coming out.  We got her a pack of apple juice boxes that have a picture of Mike Wazowski (the little, green, one-eyed monster).  When you ask her who it is she will tell you it's Mikey Owski!

*The girl is obsessed with some keys.  She loves to use them to try to open any and everything she can find. She also loves a screwdriver and she 'fixes' what she can get it into.

*Her new thing when we go out to eat is that she has to unwrap everyone's straw.  It takes her a couple of minutes on each one, so it is a good time sucker while we hang out and order our food.  She has to place them in the drink of her choice or she gets bent out of shape.  The girl knows what she wants...there is no doubt.

*Her attachment to her bobo and dacie was getting out of control.  She would spend the majority of her waking hours getting herself into her crib so that she could have them.  We decided that they needed to be put away while she was awake and only let her have them when she was sleeping and that has made things much better.  With those guys in the top of her closet, she is actually playing and spending time with other people!

*Bubble Guppies has an episode with a cowgirl who says that she is the 'ropingeset, ridingest cowgirl in all of Bubbletuckey County'.  When she rides her rocking horse at home or the carousel at the mall she will say, 'Yeehaw, I'm the ropingest cowgirl in all of Tuckey County!'

*When we tell her that we are going to go somewhere or do something, she starts to run around in a circle and say, 'Yipee!  I'm so sited!'

*When we ask her what kind of ice cream she wants she will ask for chocolate, pink, and white.  Not sure why chocolate is the only one specifically named.

*When she goes swimming she wears her 'babing soup' and she has to be a mermaid like in Dora.

*The flashlight is her 'spying scope'.

*When she runs around in a circle she says she is 'so busy'.


There is no doubt that our girl bops along to the beat of her own drum.  And I am proud every second to be her mom.