We do an awful lot of dress-up around here.

Tonight Clare and I were snuggling and she asked me “what do you say Mama?”  I told her I say “I love Clare and I love Sam.”  I asked her what she says and she told me “I say ‘Merry Christmas everyone!'”

A few weeks ago I had a meeting in town, so I got to stay home a little later and eat breakfast with Clare and G.  It’s always entertaining to hear their breakfast conversations (their upcoming birthday parties are a pretty big topic) but on this particular morning Clare was telling Gabe all about her trip to Colorado last month.  She didn’t tell him about the birthday party, or the airplane ride, or the visits to the park, or any of the other fun things we did.  Nope, she was telling him in great detail about the bunnies that live in the park behind JP and Debbie’s house and about how she tried to chase them.  “The bunnies were scared.  I didn’t try to scare them but they ran away.  I told them ‘don’t be scared bunnies’ but they still ran away.”  When I asked her if she was talking about our visit with Baby Maddy G looked up at me, nodded with authority, and said “Yes.  Baby Maddy has bunnies.”