Naps are reserved for holidays

Cran informed me today at 2pm that she will take a nap for Christmas. Then she went on to tell me, "don't worry Momma, I'll probably take a nap for Halloween, Beebster's birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, my birthday, Easter, and the 4th of July. You know, all the holidays" (and in that order too since she's been asking me which holidays are coming up next and wants to know the order). I told her "thank you, Cran" and then started laughing. I am looking forward to the 7 special occasions within the 2008-2009 year where Cran will be napping. 

She is so funny with the things that she does and says. I was sitting with Faith after she woke up from a short nap (no blankie to sniff as the culprit) since short naps = the need to sit and actually wake up fully before engaging in normal activities otherwise said-child will be unusually grouchy. Anyway, while I was sitting with the little Beebster, I see Maddie out of the corner of my eye with her finger in the goldfish bowl that sits on the dining room table. She was saying "oh, hi there my water baby. You're so cute. What a good water baby." She was pretending to be Gepetto from Pinocchio and it was the cutest thing ever. Wouldn't you know the darn goldfish would go up to Maddie's finger and suction it, and Maddie would giggle. Slightly gross, but true (and I had her thoroughly wash her hands afterwards). 

Maddie and Faith are on an "Alice in Wonderland" kick. This has led Maddie to be obsessed with the fact that it is her "un-birthday" every single day of the year, except for January 11th when it is her actual birthday. She thinks this is great. She went around to each of us this morning wishing us a very merry un-birthday. She is intent on making a cake with her Guy and Ella and her Beebster since she thinks it's wonderful that they all share an un-birthday. Haha.

We spent a lot of today outside since it was beautiful. She and Faith played with their chalks forever, and actually made quite the drawings on our steps. Without me even prompting her, Maddie drew an 'I,' a 'B,' and an 'E' and told me to look. She was so proud! Then during our afternoon walk, the little women ran into a nice woman that we had never seen before. The woman commented that she loved Maddie's shoes (Maddie had chosen her outfit for the afternoon-- her princess shirt, purple shorts, a bracelet, headband, and green and blue sandal shoes that have a sort of heel that did not match whatsoever) and asked if Maddie could run OK in them- which was my mindset as well since I was concerned the entire length of our walk that she would fall flat as a pancake while sprinting with those darn shoes on, but thankfully did not. Then the woman was saying that she loved Maddie's reddish hair and freckles, and Maddie goes "yes, I do have reddish hair. And, it's also blondish, just like Aurora." 

My little princess loving, holiday napping, goldfish touching Cran!