Melanie's Wish

So, today we're watching Dora. Ya know - Spanish speaking Dora who is taking over the known world with her little bilingual self. We get a lot of Dora here, and Melanie speaks about as much Spanish as Dora does. It's pretty fun, actually.

I digress.

Today's episode was about making a wish with "little star." Totally an adventure, like every day is with Dora. But at the end, when they got Little Star back to where they needed to be, Dora asked everyone who "helped" to whisper their wish.

My daughter is totally into Dora. She does whatever Dora says to do - from the dance moves to the jumping to the repeating of the Spanish words. So, she whispered her wish:

"I wish I could eat eggs all day."

I just sat here and pretended I wasn't listening, because being a whispered wish, I wasn't sure I was supposed to hear. Once the show was over though, Melanie says, "Mommy, I made a wish - I wish I could eat eggs all day long!" I asked her, "What kind of eggs?" (I'm thinking at this point the chocolate eggs that are in the bag in the kitchen, because she doesn't get a lot of chocolate, and that would be a huge treat to eat those all day...) She says, "Dippy eggs or scrambled eggs or hard boilbed eggs" (yes, with the extra "b" in there). I said, "I think that's a wish we might be able to make true. Which day do you want to do this?"

You'd think I'd have given her the bag of the chocolate eggs. She is pretty thrilled with this. Don't know what day we're having eggs, but I'm sure it will be an interesting day. Wish fulfillment. Feels pretty good to be able to do that!

Today was gymnastics. I have to tell you, she is getting really good for a 3 1/2 year old girl! Now this photo has really nothing to do with the gymnastics themselves, I know. But aren't they all so cute with their little tushies all lined up in a row waiting their turns? The funny thing today was that they were all in their little pastel leotards today...except for little miss drama queen in her black one. I tried to get her to wear the pink one. No doing. She wanted the black one. And she was quite the stand out. Also, the braids...she asked for them today - and was very specific that she wanted them "on the sides" so that they didn't hurt her head when she did her backflips. Makes sense to me!

She is getting pretty tall (well, it's all relative, I know). But her 18 month clothes are getting too short for her. They fit around, just not length wise. So we went to get 24 month and 2T clothes for her (my almost 4 year old!) and went to the Children's Place, because their jeans are adjustable with this cool elastic waistband. We got 24 month jeans, and the length is pretty good (well, a little long - but not too bad) and we have the waistband adjusted as tight as it will go, and while they stay up...we still have a case of toddler crack. (That's like plumbers crack, but much cuter!) Anyway - they had a great sale with some 50% off stuff, so we ended up getting her some very cute things for a limited amount of cash money, which I love. There's something about dressing her that's so much more fun than dressing myself...maybe because I hate shopping for clothes for me. It's depressing. Anyway - it was way fun, and she looks way cute. We got all the clothes in the pictures, plus a few other things. GREAT deal!

I had a workshop on Saturday, and Melanie and Brian came along. Miss Elsa (the hostess) loves feeding my family, and Brian loves being fed! Melanie got to be a participant in the workshop, which she loved. She's getting to be a good little stamper. Here she is on her stool, in some of her new clothes.

She's getting to the point to where I am so proud to have her out and about with me; she is SO clever...and speaks with adults like she's one of them, only shorter! She was reading things off of the boxes and stamps to the ladies and talking about all sorts of things that you wouldn't expect a 3 year old to be talking about. She's a hoot.

Her new word for an answer to things is, "Possible". Like, you'll ask her if she'd like to play a game and she says, "Possible." Not sure where she got that...I wonder if I say that? I think I forget, or don't notice, the things that come out of my mouth until they come out of hers. Makes you a lot more aware!

More later!