My Little Cha Cha

Well, life's been busy around our house lately, in large part because I'm trying to prepare for the move and getting our house on the market, but there's a special little two-year-old that makes everything a little more interesting. We like to call her Cha Cha (thanks Pa!). Don't let that cute little face fool you.....she's no angel. :) She cracks me up -- I've never met a child that age that has such a sense of humor or could get into as many things as she can.

Exhibit A:

Look closely at the doughnuts. Do you notice anything odd about them? Yes, that's right, a bite has been taken out of each one. I had picked up a special treat for the kids after dropping little man off at school one day (the doughnuts) and thought they could have one for an after school snack. Everything was quiet while I was upstairs working that morning. I came downstairs to find this box on the table and this little face looking up at me:
Is that a guilty little chocolate covered face or what? And notice her top - she had also taken her clothes off and put a bathing suit on backwards! I couldn't help but laugh!! Then, a couple of weeks ago I was in our study making some phone calls for Sunday School and Brooke came running in saying, "Mom, you're not gonna like this. Come and see what Eva has done!!!" And I went in the kitchen to find our betta in this condition:


Little Cha Cha had dumped not one, but two, complete bottles of fish food into Dory's bowl. Dory already has issues - (s)he is a little gender confused. If you know bettas, by looking at him (her) you can tell he's a male but our kids wanted to name him Dory (from Finding Nemo) and pretend he was a girl. So we refer to him as a 'her' all the time anyhow. And now the poor thing is about to bust a gut from trying to eat that food. I quickly cleaned his (her) bowl and after a few days of uncertainty, I'm happy to report that Dory is still with us.
So, we're just a cha-cha-ing along, trying to make just as many messes as we can along the way!

**no animals were harmed (well, at least not killed) in the creation of this blog entry. :)