Our youngest granddaughter, sweet Ellie Kathryn, will be 3 years old this Friday. Her birthday is easy to remember January 23– 1-2-3.
She is very funny, stubborn at times, but as sweet as can be. She loves to color, play with her baby dolls and to watch Frozen.
She prefers coloring on paper rather than a coloring book, so she gets a few sheets of white paper and goes to town.
Every single time she opens the box of colors, she hands me the white one and says, “This one not working.”
Lisa McNeece
One of her favorite things to wear is what was once a beautiful Rapunzel wig that came with an old Halloween costume that belonged to her big sister Addi Claire.
There is no way I can describe how hideous this thing is.
At one time, it was long and luxurious– blonde, silky with a section in the front braided and decorated with three small flowers.
The braid is the only way I can tell which is the top of the thing. It has become a matted mess. And she still loves it. The more matted it has gotten, the bigger it has gotten.
I have tried brushing it, but had to go out on the patio, due to the mess it was making. It was impossible to brush out, even working in small sections.
We tried to replace it with an Elsa from Frozen beautiful, white braided wig, which she likes, but it doesn’t stay on as well as the Rapunzel wig.
I keep thinking she’ll forget about it, but no chance.
“I want my long hair,” she says.
She wears it while eating, while coloring and while cheerleading with pom poms.
When you leave the house, she often wants to grab a purse, and a baby doll and occasionally says “let me get my long hair.”
Depending on where we are going, I let her get it.
It’s borderline frightening.
Addi Claire and I took a long walk this weekend enjoying the unseasonably warm January weather.
It warms my heart that she asks so many questions about flowers in our yard and remembers many from the year before.
She asked when the yellow flowers would come up (daffodils) and remembered that the first flowers blooming on the patio will be the “yellow flowers on the green stuff”– Carolina Jasmine vines.
She talked about the May-Pops that grow on a vine and bloom in late summer– describing them as the “prettiest ones with white and purple and curly stuff on leaves.”
That prompted a long discussion on what vegetables and fruits we could grow at our house. Someone (not me) needs to plant that child a garden.
We have blueberries, tomatoes, a fig tree and planted watermelon seeds for her last year. That’s about as far as my talents go for food gardening.
I do plan to plant some Moonflower vines for her this summer. She will be fascinated with the smell and that they only open at night.
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