The Finer Details

Victoria and Karissa have very good imaginations, as you may have learned. They are always in character. I never really paid attention to the details of their play, though, until recently.

Some examples:
- Before they "wake up" you always hear them say, "Tweet, tweet!" for the birds chirping in the morning.
- For the shinning sun they will turn the light on (they also use the light to sing The Little Mermaid's "Part of Your World" for when she looks at the sun above the water).
- After a huge cresendo, with head thrown back, eyes closed, and arms up high, they will say, "Dun!" for the final beat of a song.

There's never a dull moment with them!

Lately, Victoria's favorite costumes are her old baby blankets, tied around her as a skirt, usually with no shirt. We have about 20 beautiful costumes, yet she chooses to wear a blanket-- at least Karissa is getting into the princess stage now and makes use of all those costumes.

Which reminds me of this morning's 55th tanturm of the week for Karissa. After putting her to bed last night without her picking out her church dress beforehand because she was having a huge tantrum, I picked out a nice poofy dress for her, since I knew they are her favorite. This morning, after she was dressed, she had another huge tantrum because her dress was poofy. Of course we had no time to change her so I brought her breakfast and put her in the car. We got there just in time for the opening song, which was "Home Can be a Heaven on Earth". I thought it was quite ironic after she went to bed, and woke up, with a tantrum. Aren't the "terrible two's" great!?

P.S. Our computer crashed and I have no pictures on our laptop, so no pics today.