happily ever after

blah blah blah. Seriously, I am stomping my feet, dragging them. I don't want my kids to grow any more!!!
Today was a great day and a sad day. Well great for Chloe, sad for mommy. She decided that today she would grow up, like serious growing happened.

For starters, she was coloring a card for her friend after dinner tonight and I peeked at her and noticed that she was looking in her box of crayons a lot. Then she says, Mom look, I wrote my name. She has been able to write a few letters, but they are usually backwards or out of order so I took a look and omg. She spelled it correctly, and had all the letters in the right order. Brandon had written her name on the inside of the crayon box, so she was checking it out and teaching herself. I was the crazy proud mom who took a million pics, and then secretly sent her friend another card and saved that one for her hope chest.

Then, we went to the park by our house, not only did she run through the sprinklers there. Which for most kids is nothing, for my kid it means getting water in your face and getting wet. Brandon and I stood there just stunned that she would actually do it and be screaming happily while doing so. Then she spotted this group of three older girls, like eight years old or so. She kept asking to go meet them, so we let her. She didn't want us to go and we watched as she approached them and stood there talking for like five minutes. As the girls walked away, Chloe yelled " I love you" to them. hilarious.

Ohmygosh, this is the hard one. We got home and started bath time. We give our girls baths every night, at the same time and have since birth. So I started with Chloe and after about ten minutes she tells me that she wants to have a shower, by herself. So I thought about it and thought she should try it. So I pulled the curtain closed, turned it on fully expecting her to scream and go back to playing with toys in the water. But instead her she was singing and laughing. Asking me to leave because she is a big girl now. I bawled. Apparently she does not want to have any more baths because she is too big for them. So sad.

Brandon thinks this is so exciting, but I don't. For goodness sakes, I just bought her school shoes and won't let her wear them till the first day. That's too much in one week. On a lighter note, I cut coupons for the first time tonight. Saving big bucks :)

xoxo