Paige's favourite things...

1. Care Bears: She likes the movies, a book she has, and the stuffed one I found in my old collection. I had Bedtime Bear from 1985 ish, but I also had another very new one that i have no recollection of getting. I think maybe I got it from Mike, but he doesn't remember either. At any rate, it looks new and she loves it.

She prefers the newer Care Bear movies to the old ones. I got an old one from the library and it has that scary guy in it. Also the parents say things like "Go to your room! Wait till your father hears about this!". I feel like a lot of 1980's cartoon shows had very similar values. The new episodes and movie are more cutesy and friendly.

2. Franklin: She loves these books. They used to feel painfully long to read to her, but now I am used to it. She has gotten past board books for the most part and likes longer stories. The only hard part is that she doesn't realize that 5 boardbooks are not the same as 5 Franklin books! We have to limit her at bedtime which doesn't always go over so well. These books have nice messages in all of them.

3. CD player: I bought Paige her own $30 CD player for her room (not great sound quality, but small). It is on her floor and her CD's are on her dresser. She can do the whole thing by herself. As I write this she is in quiet time and she is on her second CD. It is really loud, and next time I have to remember to turn it to a quiet level before she starts it up.


4. Smoothies: I make these for afternoon snack time. Paige and I split one.

1 banana
4 frozen strawberries
4 ice cubes
splash of milk
splash of OJ
2 spoonfuls of vanilla yogurt.


Sneaks fruit into her, and is a healthy snack for a pregnant mommy too. I put chocolate syrup in it once and she liked that too.

5. Markers: Messy messy messy, that's all I have to say about that one.

6. Sweatpants: She only likes sweatpants or fleece pants. Putting her in anything else is like pulling teeth. Not that Paige is in school, but I don't think I ever wore sweatpants to school until University. Mike, on the other hand, probably stopped wearing his sweatpants in university. So we wonder where she gets it from. Mike said "uh oh, just like daddy". He would be in sweatpants in school pictures and everything.

My favourite thing : The library

As Paige needs longer books and more variety, the library is the place to go. I can't imagine being stuck with few books, or having to buy a ton. Also, we don't ever get sick of reading the books. We can also get CD's and movies from the library. Although, this week she scratched a DVD. I offered to replace or buy it, but as they could see it had been well-loved over the years, and Paige probably wasn't the one to ultimately ruin it...maybe just the straw that broke the camel's back. I do worry about her alone in her room with her CD's though. Who knows what she's doing with them!