Violatte

Violatte has said some really cute things lately. I wanted to write some of them before I forget -- although I have already forgotten some that happened within the last couple of days.

First of all, on Christmas Eve, Violatte and I were making some gingerbread men cookies. We had a great conversation about Santa Clause. She was so excited he was coming, but when she found out that he would only come when she was asleep in bed she was so disappointed. She wanted to see Santa Clause for two very specific reasons: She wanted to wish him Merry Christmas and she wanted to sing to him. It was so sweet seeing her disappointment. She really wanted to do those nice things for Santa Clause.

Violatte's new phrase is "guess what" all though she usually says it as "so what." Frequently throughout the day she'll say, "Mom, so what! I love you!" It's so sweet. It seems that she often says it at times when I am frustrated and then I feel bad for snapping at her or something. She's so caring!

One thing that Jim and the girls have enjoyed doing lately is to watch the animated Star Wars that has come out. Violatte especially loves it and has started referring to herself as the princess, Jim as the Captain, and Annalee as Master.

But as cute of a princess as Violatte makes, she drives me crazy with it. She has a very specific idea of how things should be for a princess. One day she told me that princess need fast cars and ours wasn't going fast enough. Very often, she told me that princess need chocolate. (Does that make me a princess?)

Violatte loves to play dress-up (as you can see in the picture.) Sometimes Jim gets upgraded from Captain to prince, and then he gets to rescue all three of us princesses (Violatte, Annalee, and I) from the bad guys, or the dragon, or whoever it is. Sometimes, Annee gets to be the dragon. In our dress-up box we even have a cute dragon costume. Annalee is the cutest dragon, Violatte is the prettiest princess, and Jim is definitely the handsomest prince! We have good times.