Yesterday the girls had themselves a little dress up day in their fairy best. Rosie was sort of a pirate fairy. She had on her beautiful pink tutu but put on her pirate hat and kept yelling “YARGH!” Lulu looked like some sort of nymph wearing one of her really short skirts on her head. And of course there was a little dance party!
Video may take a moment to load. It kills me when I thank Lulu in the video and she says “oh, don’t mention it!”
As one can plainly see in this video, it’s obvious who the more aggressive sibling is. While it’s all cute and good-natured right now, this is good foreshadowing of the future in our household. This does not bode well for Lucille. I don’t want to say that she’s a push over, but she lets a lot of stuff roll off her back. Rosie will surely use this to her advantage at some point.
But it’s still cute to see them rolling around on the floor. Perhaps there is some MMA or wrestling in her future?
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This pretty much sums up Lulu’s personality. Isn’t she cuuuuuuute?
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Same to you, spaz!
I have to apologize for my crappy camera skills on this one. I captured this on the fly this morning with my iPhone. Also, I was actually shocked that she started to sing when I asked her to and my cat-like reflexes were not up to speed, so I missed the beginning.
Yes, that is my finger in the shot a few moments in…
But here is my incredibly smart and gifted child, for your viewing pleasure.
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Miss Lucille Frazier loves to draw. And she’s getting really, really good at it. Almost every day she and I will sit down together with crayons and a large sheet of paper. I may start off doodling my own things: hearts, butterflies, fuzzy little creatures or flowers, but soon she begins to dictate things that she’d like to see: snowmen, the sun, clouds, “more hearts” etc.
She knows all of the crayon colors, although I always find it interesting that she picks the same 2-3 crayons to hold in her little hands. For whatever reason she gravitates to the green and sky blue.
The magnetic doodle pad has been a life saver in recent weeks. She can still get the instant gratification of drawing pictures without the commitment of crayon and paper. And she can do it by herself without relying on one of us.
A few weeks ago we noticed that she was actually starting to make shapes while drawing, putting little arms and legs on the circles we would draw for her resulting in a little person. And then faces. Even hats and feet! From then on her drawings became even more detailed. Instead of just dots for eyes she was actually drawing little circle eyes with dots for eyeballs in them!
I took this video of her yesterday with my phone (I was holding Rose at the time, so it’s a little shaky and the noises you hear off screen are her). The video may take a while to load up, it’s rather large (I’m testing out getting videos from the phone online!). But I love how focused she is on what she’s doing. And the resulting image, of course!