That's our reflection, silly!

One day, we all went out to a restaurant. The ceiling was mirrored in the entrance area. Keith was looking up with Alana and asked, "How can we be up there when we're already down here?" Alana looked at him like he had cracked his head and said, "That's just our reflection, silly!"

Baby Kisses

AC was so happy when Alexander, at a little under three months, would open his mouth and try to air kiss her when she kissed his face. “Look at him imitating us!”, we thought. “What a clever little boy!” Finally, one day, when she kissed him, he whipped his head around, locked onto her lower lip and started sucking away with an effort that would impress the whole Oreck/Dyson/Hoover crowd. Which isn’t to say he isn’t clever, but he sure does like to EAT.

Psst…she didn’t really cut my hair, Mommy!

Alana, her Mom and her A-ma went to Linh’s for haircuts. Linh cut Mom’s hair, then A-ma’s hair. Alana’s hair had been trimmed recently, so she didn’t really need it cut. When she asked if she was going to get a haircut, A-ma didn't have the heart to say no so she asked Linh in a whisper to just pretend to cut it.

Linh spritzed her hair with water, snipped the air around Alana’s head, and brushed her hair, then asked if Alana liked it. Alana just looked at her strangely, then turned to her mother and said in a whisper, “Mommy, she didn’t really cut my hair!”

Mmmm….Eye of Newt!

At a restaurant, family friend Mark turned to Alana and said, “What are you going to have? Want some Eye of Newt?” Alana thought about it for a moment, then said, “OK, sure.” Mark smirked and gave her the maraschino cherry from his drink, sans stem. Alana said “Thanks,” popped it into her mouth, and ate it. “So Alana,” I said, “what does Eye of Newt taste like?” She looked at me with a little smile, and said “Ummm. It tastes like cherry.”