fancy nancy & strawberry

Anna Claire loves to be fancy just like Fancy Nancy! She put on these beads as a "seat belt" then goes and looks in the mirror at herself for 10 minutes.

The Strawberry Shortcake gown is from last year. Hunta made her this gown and she hated it as a 3 year old but this year she doesn't want to take it off! 4 year olds have such refined taste!

sleeping commando

Friday night I was scrapbooking so Russ was in charge of getting the girls to bed. After bath time he told Anna Claire to go into her room and put on underwear and her PJs. Much to my surprise on Saturday morning she didn't have on underwear. And to make it worse she had been outside in her PJs playing in the mulch by our swing set - that couldn't have felt good! When asked where her panties were she immediately said, "They fell off!" Then she said, "Daddy took them away." Then, and finally the truth, she said, "I couldn't find my Dora panties so I didn't put any on for the night."

name calling

In the car yesterday after church Anna Claire said, "Lizzie, you're a nut!" And Lizzie said, "No I'm not. I'm a bunny rabbit!"

truthfulness

On Friday we took Hunta to the airport to fly to Paris. She'll be gone about 10 days. She told Anna Claire, "I'm going to miss you while I'm gone." Anna Claire said, "I'll miss you too but not a lot."

adorable defiance

Tonight, after Lizzie had gotten up about 3 times already I went in to rescue the book that fell under her bed. Then I said, "If you get out of bed one more time you will get a spanking and it will hurt." Her reply, "No it won't, Mommy!" If she weren't so adorable ...

understanding the 3 year old mind

Last night Russ was going to read the girls a book before bedtime. When Lizzie saw the book she jumped up and said, "No Daddy! You can't read that book - it's weird!" The book was "Click Clack Moo." So she ran and got another book by the exact same author called "Giggle Giggle Quack." Any thoughts as to why one was weird and the other wasn't???

beach trip

We had a great beach trip! The girls had lots of fun in the sand. On Sunday we saw about 4 jellyfish in the water so that was the end of our time in the water.
On the way home Monday Anna Claire said she needed to use the potty when we were no where near a bathroom. So I pulled the car over on the side of the road and pulled her pants down and held her up so she could go potty. After about 2-3 minutes of this she said, "Well, it's not coming out now!" We loaded back up in the car and waited until we got to Enterprise.