Katharine Lange: Leia Week 94: Drama Queen

It's looking like our little Leia is going to be quite the actress. The routines that she can perform are absolutely amazing, and we don't know where she gets this stuff! Her current best performance involves an entire act, complete with facial expressions and body actions, about something being really heavy. She has this little plastic baby high chair that is actually quite light and she moves it all over the house constantly, but the other day with Josh, she picks it up, and looks at him and says in the most dramatic enunciation "Oh, heavvvy!" and proceeds to grimace and strain under the supposed weight as she pretends to struggle to carry it across the room. Josh couldn't stop laughing!

She also still loves to say "That scared me!" followed by an exaggerated expression of surprise: raised eyebrow, wide eyes, grimaced teeth. She says it in the most appropriate situations, but she is so clearly not scared, so it's absolutely hilarious.

She's still really into the telephone right now. Josh gave her a little walkie talkie that was missing its mate, so Leia thinks it's a phone, and she is so excited about it. She hasn't put it down since getting it, "calls" people all the time, keeps it with her in her little bag if she happens to not be using it, and even insists on taking it to bed with her. So now the minute she wakes up from sleeping, she pulls the phone phone out of her bag and starts calling people and telling them about her day and her plans. Her favorite people to call are Daddy, Grandma, Papa, and Uncle John, but everyone she knows gets a call occasionally. It is so fun to listen to her conversations.

With all the festivities surrounding Easter, we've had a fair amount of parties and "get togethers" that have been very fun for Leia. Now she's decided that she likes parties, and she's been telling me that we're going to have "a party...Leia's party." It's pretty cute!

One last funny thing for the week is Leia's sock fettish. She mostly wears footie PJ's to bed, but when we put her in something without feet, she likes to wear these certain pairs of wool socks (luckily we have several pairs). If she's wearing other cotton socks, she insists on taking those off to put the wool ones on instead. And the best new development is that she's even started making her Daddy put the special wool sleep socks on top of her footy pj's so that she's doubled up. It's absolutely hilarious!

And look who's starting to want to dress herself and actually be somewhat successful about it! Thanks to her teacher Jenny at school, she's had the jacket thing down pat for awhile (a little jacket in front, arms first, over the head trick that's really quite nifty). Next up, pants...getting the feet in ok, but the butt is still an issue!

My little Easter Bunny!

Fun day at the park!

Swinging is the best!

We actually played with a little girl named Nora today, and Leia was really upset with me when we looked back through our pictures and there weren't any of Nora!!