Big Girl

For her own reasons, Annalee spent the last couple of hours of yesterday referring to her mom as "Grandma" and myself as "Grampa." Kim and I have theorized that she is doing so to poke fun at us (she clearly loves it, and keeps invoking our new appellations in every sentence -- "OK, Grandma?"). She may simply miss her grandparents, all of whom live far from Texas.

She is wearing "big girl" underwear more and more, diapers less and less. She insists on putting on her own clothing, which she has learned to do in the last month. She can put on her own shirts, underpants, pants, socks, and shoes (with minor left-right guidance). She insists, too, on having a go at tying her shoes with laces before allowing Mom or Dad to finish the job.

She says, "I'm a big girl" many times a day.