Sweet Little Sister

Dear Mackenzie,

Whenever you leave a room, you have to bring as many toys of yours as I will let you. Even if we're just going downstairs for a quick drink of water, you insist on bringing a stuffed animal, blanket, sunglasses, flower girl basket and magnifying glass. Or your toy phone, pencil box, pumpkin bag filled with plastic Easter eggs and Wonder Woman action figure. You always tell me you neeeeed these things and the items you neeeeed change every time we leave a room. You never want to walk from one room to another empty-handed and as such, your toys are everywhere. On the couch, on my dining room chair, on top of the stairs, at the bottom of the stairs, in the hallway. I think JieJie also did this when she was your age but I can't remember your brothers doing it. Girls and their accessories, I guess!

Other cuteness from this week:

-The way you say "whobody" instead of just "who," as in "Whobody made this picture?"

-The way you pronounce lemonade "yemay."

-The way you say "darky" instead of just "dark."

-How much you love it when I bring you chicken meatballs when I pick you up from school. You ask for them every day I take you to school. Yesterday, I dropped you off and after you'd stepped inside the school doorway, you turned around and said, "Bye, Mama! You bring me meatballs when you pick me up?" And your teacher told me that later that afternoon when you were playing on the playground with your class, you were riding around in a Cozy Coupe when you stopped and asked her, "Is my mom going to bring me meatballs she she picks me up?" Hahaha! Yes, I got your meatballs! And I better tell Daddy to stock up on them when he goes to the grocery store!

-If you ask for something and I don't answer you right away, you widen your eyes, get really close to my face and ask me again.

-When I tell you to blow your nose harder, you blow while also bending your arms tightly at your side and stomping your foot.

-This is more ew than cute but one time you sneezed and when I looked over at you, a thick, 5-inch-long booger was dangling from your nostril!

-Second GuhGaw was being mean to you the other night and when he walked out of his room, he shut the light off even though you were still in there. You got scared and started crying. After I comforted you, I yelled at Second GuhGaw for doing that and he started crying. When you heard him, you ran up to him, hugged him and said, "I here! I take care of you! I go get a tiss-yoo!" You brought him a tissue and even wiped his face for him. You were so kind to your brother even after he had been mean to you!

Love,

Mom