Angelique, of course, is a darling, and four *is* much better than three....

But sometimes, she's got this attitude. Okay, admittedly, it's almost cute... but I know enough to know it won't be cute very long, so I'm trying to help nip it in the bud.

( In which I don't ask first )

( In which there is absolutely no Spanish spoken )

( In which I really dislike my shoes getting wet, but some people don't have to worry about that and should stop causing me trouble )

Not, of course, that it's all problems. We saw a ladybug the other day, so I recited "Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away home" for Angelique, and when I was done she made up her own rhyme, something like "Sand, sand, what are you doing? I am going to the store", and she really hit that nursery rhyme rhythm. You know the one I mean.

Evangeline, for her part, is growing by leaps and bounds. Yesterday, after she and her sister made a huge mess of beads on the floor, we cleaned it all up, and I heard Evangeline trying to sing the clean-up song! I loathe and abhor the clean-up song, but when I can barely understand it, it's almost cute! Like bedbugs are cute, in the abstract.

*_{It took me a while to work this one out. I mean, I understood it, but I had to work out where she got it from. She must have made an analogy between "Don't do that without asking" and "Do that with asking". Normally, of course, we'd say "You have to ask", but her way is just as logical, isn't it?}