ARIEL

Of all the Disney Princesses, Ariel was the early favorite and continues to hold the top spot for Allegra. She loves watching 'The Little Mermaid' while holding her Ariel doll.

Kristen pointed out to me last night, that Allegra even does her own rendition of the fiery-haired princess. She mimics the scene where Ariel ascends through the water, belting out the "AHahaaaah" musical scales. Allegra will hold her doll, look upward, spin, and make a singsong imitation of the scene, and it's good enough that Kristen was able to tell what she was doing!

TALK TO THE HAND

Allegra has developed her very own special way of telling us to backoff. She raises her hand and holds it there, as in, "STOP!" I realize this is fairly universal as far as gestures go, the odd part however, is that we don't make this motion around our house. So where she came up with it is completely beyond us. But when she's in a mood, we know absolutely that she doesn't want us messing with her, when she raises that hand and stares us down.

20 POUNDS!

As in, Allegra has finally gained enough weight to turn her carseat around so she's forward-facing in the car. Actually, she's at about 21.5 lbs. Way to go my Princess!

FIRST SUITOR

Tonight we went to Clint and Michelle's wedding reception. While there we enjoyed some friends, food, and dancing. Allegra especially enjoyed the dancing (I'm sure being center stage didn't hurt either).

While she was dancing, she managed to attract the attention of a little blond boy who was probably around 4 years old. He kept following her around, patting her head, hugging her, knocking her to the floor. No matter how many times I told him to stop grabbing, and to be gentle because she was little, he didn't let up.

Tobin started putting himself between Allegra and the boy, but he was a persistent little bugger. Blane came up to Tobin and whispered, "Keep an eye on this dude that's bothering Allegra!" Leave it to Blane to call the shots, and Tobin to carry them out...

At one point, Tobin jabbed the kid in the eye (supposedly by accident), and sent him crying to his mother (who was not monitoring his annoying behavior AT ALL). I made him go apologize, but was secretly glad he made a move. Later, the boy stirred the hornet's nest by throwing rose petals in Tobin's face - I had to grab Tobin by the collar to keep him from drilling the kid...

In the car on the way home, the boys were both discussing how upset they were about the boy bothering Allegra. I'll be sleeping well, knowing my boys are on the job, as far as watching out for their baby sister is concerned.