TRICK OR TREAT

Is it obvious that I cleaned out your snack drawer for Halloween?  Or as one of your Aunt Meghan's dear friends pointed out, more obvious that I'm a dentist? 

HUMAN

How is it possible for the past 3 years at daycare for you to come home without even the tiniest of stains on your clothes? Julie feeds you spaghetti for lunch.  She had you plant flowers in pots one year for Mother's Day.  You come home with paintings and drawings with markers.  Yet you've never had stained clothes.  I'm convinced Julie is a robot. 

Well, Julie isn't a robot.  She's human.  Look what happened...

A casualty from painting pumpkins.  What a relief.  Julie isn't perfect.  But with a three year track record of keeping the clothes safe, she's close to it.  And as for those pants, it's a casualty well worth it for this pumpkin masterpiece...

JEANS

According to you, "Princesses don't wear jeans to the pumpkin patch."  Neither do mermaids, ballerinas and fairies. And neither does Alison, apparently.  Some battles just aren't worth it...

This is what I get for putting you in dresses all summer.  Now that it's fall and the rain is here, you refuse to wear jeans, claiming princesses don't wear them or that they're too tight. 

15 MINUTES

The lady who designed your birthday invitation was so smitten with your cuteness, she asked to use your picture in her sample invite online.  Had I known this, I probably would've brushed your hair a little better.  Classic naptime bed head going on...

DRESS UP

When makeup goes awry...

These days you're into getting a hold of my makeup and creating, in your own words, "Girl mustaches.  Not boy mustaches." 

POINT TAKEN

 "Babies can't do this.  I can!"

 "Babies can't do this. I can!"

"Babies can't do this. I can!"

We get it.  You're not a baby.  Point taken.  Now if you could just stop proving to us you're not a baby, before we wind up with another trip to the ER...

POTTY TRAINING

Potty training is more fun when it's a team effort, apparently.