Friday, May 20, 2011

Aspen's been crazy about certain movies before. She loved The Jungle Book and would march around like an elephant for months. Then it was anything Mickey Mouse, and following that it was Charlotte's Web. ("Do you like spiders, Mommy?") But Tangled has just about eaten up her life. I noticed it first when was carrying her up the stairs one day. "I love you," she told me. "I love you too," I said. Then she grabbed my face and looked solemnly into my eyes. "I love you most."
Then it was "yes, Mother," and "coming, Mother." The best though was the day I came home from running errands and found this:
You cannot find this girl nowadays without a long piece of toilet paper taped to her back (or tucked in if there's no adult handy). It is her Rapunzel hair, and it has to be draped over chairs and bbq's and anything else she can find, so that her Mother or Daddy can climb up it. Sometimes she adds long random objects as well (as you can see below with Eric's bike handle tape). I just about died laughing that first day she did this, but I'm not laughing so hard anymore. I think it's really cute, but will be a little relieved when my carpet isn't infested with long sheets of toilet paper!

Friday, May 13, 2011

"Hey, Mom." Aspen said. "I'm going to blow on this flower."
"Oh. Wait though; make a wish first," I told her.
"A wish?" She asked, looking at me.
"Yeah. What's something you really want?"
"To blow on this flower," she answered.