The Dancing Princess

I'm having a bit of a hard time with how grown up she looks in this picture! Punkin is at that age where every day she learns like five new things and by the end of the week she seems so much more grown up! Many of you heard about one of her milestones last week. Her first curse word. I need to record it here for posterity. It had to happen sometime. She is, after all, mine and Jack's child. Here was the situation. Melanie needed a prescription and the pharmacy wasn't open yet, so we decided to go get something to drink at Sonic. All of the intersections here allow you to turn on any green, even if it is not an arrow specifically. I had the misfortune of being behind someone who either didn't know that, or simply was not paying attention. It's not that I was being unreasonable and expecting him to take his life into his hands by playing chicken with oncoming traffic. There was NO ONE coming. I mean, I could hear crickets chirping. Needless to say, I got a wee bit impatient and said "Go asshole!", followed by a quick beep of the horn. Then I forgot about it until... we were in line at Sonic and there was a car in front of us ordering. Of course we had all of our windows down because it was warm, and from the back seat she screams (not the conversational voice I used, but much, much louder) "Go! Go! Go Addhole!" It was so loud and unexpected that I couldn't help but laugh! Seriously! It couldn't be some random, out of context moment for one of my children! I so hope they didn't hear that!

One of the funny things about her is that she actually behaves better (most often) if she has her hair done cute, and her clothes in order. I think she just likes that coddled, put together feeling. I get it because I do too. The unfortunate part is that after I get all three girls ready with cute hair, that I have no time for mine! I do look forward to the day when they can do their own. In this picture she was dancing to one of her Barbie movies, feeling pretty because I just did her hair and she had picked out her Dora Ballerina pajamas. She looks so precious here, you would never think she could ever utter a dirty word! These are the moments I need to focus on... not the other more evil ones...