Cariña

I love my daughter. I better, the job of a mother is to love her children. But I can tell you this, I love her, but she sure knows how to drive me crazy, but before we go there here are some pictures of the great things that she is and does.

First she is so cute. I love this picture of her in her fairy costume. I have to give credit where credit is due, the first reason why she is so cute is the genetics from her dad. She got all of his great features like dark eyes, and black, long curly eyelashes. To be honest though I hope she doesn't get his eyebrows. :) Boys can get away with uni-brow, but not girls. :) Second, her first cousin once removed, Tiffany, bought her HER DREAM costume.


She is such a good sport. On Christmas Eve she wore her new Christmas PJs with such enthusiasm that it made me happy. She has since not enjoyed wearing them except to match Helaman. :) This is one thing that drives me absolutely crazy is that she wants what everybody else has. She does it all the time with food and I can't stand it. "Helaman has more than me!" She will say this often and it is usually true because she never eats her food EVER!!!! It is always a big fight. Ps I made the PJs.

She takes care of Helaman. On this day the kids disappeared into the bedroom with the door closed. They were in the room for about an hour, but all mothers know that sometimes when there is no crying you just let things be. This time was one of those times. I was getting ready, and making breakfast so the last thing I needed was having kids on my ankles. When they finally appreared, Cariña had changed his night diaper, and put all his clothes on him. You can tell by the diaper tab that she did it by herself, but she actually did a great job. She even had a onsie on and snapped. I was pretty impressed. I wish she would do it every morning, but the truth is the second time she tried it Helaman wasn't up for the long event again. :)


She loves her brother. Sometimes a little too much. In public she is always making sure that no one is bothering him, and is giving him all the toys that he wants. But at home she also uses this attitude to get what she wants. "Helaman wants to watch tv, or Helaman wants cereal." These are just a few examples of things that she wants but uses Helaman as a ploy. What a little snake. :)




She can always pose so cute for the camera. She was fighting with Sam just until I took a picture. But I love this picture with Daddy and daughter.






She is such a cute dancer. I think the video shows you more than I can write.




Can you see what is different about Cariña. Yep, we cut her bangs. It was pretty funny because she decided that she wanted bangs, but she didn't know what they were called. She came up to me a couple times and pointed to her dolls and said something like, see how their hair is like this, while pointing to their bangs. :) So I asked her one day if she wanted her hair like that and she did, so we cut them.

1.Other things that I love about Cariña is that she is a fantastic colorer. She has been able to color in lines since she was 2. She cuts on the lines when she uses scissors. She has great hand dexterity.
2. She loves classical music. She calls it little girl music, and she hates her dad's hip hop. What a good girl.


The thing that drives me crazy every time is her eating. I will give you an example of what I go through every day at every meal, and I am not kidding. The other day I made porridge with peaches. It was quite good. Helaman loved it, but for some reason Cariña just didn't want to eat it. She cried and sat at the table for at least an hour. Finally I got her to eat half of it before we had to leave for the chiropractor. As soon as we entered the car and were buckled, mind you 5 minutes after she is at the table, she says "Mom, I'm hungry, I can't wait until we get home so I can eat my porridge." I about lost it. Like I said it is like this at every meal. She is going to be the death of me yet, but I still love her and am so glad she is with us.