Are you kidding me?

Some recent exchanges. Normal conversation, except that it's so new to her and tickles us.

Me: "Are you kidding me?"
Anne: "No!"

Anne: "Miss Bernadette is very beautiful with her clothes."
Me: "Did you like Miss Bernadette?"
Anne: "I really did."

Anne: "I want to see Annalise."
Me: "Annalise is gone, honey. She's in Mexico."
Anne: "I want to go to Mexico!"

"Daddy, will you ask me a question?"

Anne asks this over and over. Dan says Elmo does it.

Dressing like Mommy

Anne made her daddy put my bra on her while I was gone the other night.

Favorite books

We decided to work on updating the blog again in part so that we could write down things we want to remember. One of those things is Anne's favorite books right now. She likes some so much, she recites from memory along with us as we read. Some current favorites: Madeline (she likes to see the girls cry), Madeline and the Bad Hat (she yells, "Au Secours!"), Alice the Fairy, Where the Wild Things Are (she giggles when they show their terrible claws), Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, No David, Harry the Dirty Dog (she calls it Harry Dirty the Dog), Llama Llama Misses Mama (because she worries a lot about being left at school after her bad preschool experience).

Name that song (video)

(Anne is wearing a Cinderella dress and playing with her Disney princess palace.)

Jump! (video and photo)

Anne on the trampoline at her nanny, Lucia's, house.

Anne behind the wheel (video)

Anne with her nanny at the park ...