A Tuesday Tradition

For four or five Tuesdays, we've enjoyed Baskin Robbins' $1 cone promotion.

For the last couple of outings, Stace and I have wondered if we might be a family of four by the next week. So far, that hasn't happened yet, so this week, back to the ice cream we returned.

This time, Cora took her good friend Benjamin Bear. Benjamin has been coming along with us to lots of places, and Cora and he have been having fun tea parties at home.

Our friends Andy and Jenny in England brought the bear when they visited us when Cora was eight months old, and it talks and sings (in a woman's voice) when you press its hands and tummy. Eventually it went up with her other stuffed toys, but when Cora started watching the Benjamin Bear DVDs from Nan and Pop, the bear got a new name and a new best friend.

Today, during a tea party, Cora was telling Benjamin that he was little and she was big, because she is three. That type of statement has become very common the last couple of weeks. Cora is often talking about how big she is, because she is three, and how she can do this, that, or the other thing because she is so big.

Today, she was looking at a Disney Princess activity book, and a number of the activities involved reading. I tried to tell her that this page or that page would be better for her to do when she is older, and she was very disappointed.
"Maybe I'm big enough to know my letters," she said. "Maybe I'm big enough, because I'm three."

Another Coraism, this when Stace was cutting Cora's nails the other night: "I used to cut your nails, when you were a little boy, when I was a big, big grownup."

The last photo is a bit random, but Stace trimmed back our main rose bush a couple of months ago, and Wow!