Excited

There was a little girl
who had a little curl,
right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good
she was very very good
and when she was bad she was horrid.

Other than the curl, this poem is Chloe in a nutshell! Just as she can be very very good and very very naughty, her emotions are always at one extreme or the other. When she is mad, she lets you know it. When she is sad, she makes it clear. And when she gets excited, there is definitely jumping, shrieking and even things flying out of her hands in her utter enthusiasm!

Last Saturday we were running some errands and stopped at my mom's house for an urgent bathroom stop. Since it was already past lunchtime, I decided we would zip on through the McDonald's drive thru for happy meals and take them through a gas station car wash (a favorite pasttime of the kids'). I said, "Let's get in the car so we can go to McDonalds," and Chloe's little face lit up with excitement as she threw her sippy cup across the room and yelled, "MCDONALDS!" (She then proceeded to get my mom a baseball cap to go with her running clothes so she could come with us to McDonalds and was very disappointed to learn that Grandma Becky wouldn't be joining us).

With the beautiful weather over the last couple of days, Chloe has also been really excited about going outside. Today she got to play out there with Seth while Morgan was at preschool and then came in to go potty. The second she was finished, she hopped of the potty and headed for the back door with her pants around her ancles, chanting, "OUTSIDE! OUTSIDE!"

It is so fun to see her excited, just watch out when she throws a tantrum!