The latest thing

The girls have been acting in unusual ways recently. Amelia has been having fun making everyone in the family wear mouse ears. She and Diana usually wear Minnie Mouse ears and either mom or dad are put into a pair of bow-less Mickey Mouse ears. (These mouse ears have Amelia's name on the back and Tinkerbell on the front, but Amelia still insists that they are Mickey Mouse ears.)

Amelia wants the family to be dressed in their mouse ears much of the time. In fact, she even wore her Minnie Mouse ears to the bookstore, yesterday. Amelia also demands that mommy participate (and do so accurately) when she sings the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. After Amelia sings, "M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E" the first time I have to respond with, "That's me!" If I mess up and say, "That's me!" the second time Amelia spells Mickey Mouse I am quickly corrected.

Diana is very excited about her upcoming birthday, but she's been good about not opening her birthday presents. There have been moments when she's been caught tugging at the wrap a bit, but she always stops when she realizes she's been spotted. Amelia keeps her straight, too, and tells her to save her presents for her birthday.

The main thing Diana likes to do with her gifts is to take her smaller present, carry it to the family room, slam it down on the floor, and sit on it. All I can say is it's a good thing this box doesn't contain a ceramic tea set or a frail antique of some kind. Once Diana loses interest in her giftbox seat Amelia will pick it up and move it back to it's proper place on Diana's gift pile. (Amelia's an awfully good big sister.)

Lisa