This is life right now: Scarlette is either reading a book, asking me to read her a book, repeatedly saying the word “book” or she’s running around laughing to herself, probably about something she saw in a book.

Her hair? We call that the “someone just gave the baby peanut butter” look. Scarlette apparently thinks that peanut butter is akin to hair gel.

Also, how in the world do I get that child in focus? She’s a constant blur in my camera. I will give you one batrillion dollars if you can tell me how to fix this. Note: I won’t actually give you one batrillion dollars.

Andplusalso, I found that old quilt stashed away in my basement. Hand-stitched by my (I think) great-great grandmother, I decided that it needed to live upstairs. I found a ton of crazy things in my basement. Because I’m a hoarder. The good news is that if I ever need a to-scale replica of Princess Diana’s wedding dress OR the notes my friend Dustin wrote me in ninth grade, I have both.

Last month we had “princess day” and dressed up Scarlette and my niece Nixie for a mini-photoshoot. I took them downtown to take their pictures. And by “downtown” I don’t mean Atlanta. I mean Main Street because we live in the c-o-u-n-t-r-y. Seriously, it takes me like, half an hour to get to Main Street.

Anyhow, Nixie spent the entire time saying “I’m Princess Giselle! Take my picture doing *insert princess activity here*” while Scarlette looked at me like “Seriously woman, don’t you take enough pictures of me at home? Now we’re doing this thing in public?”

I ordered the black & white one of the two of them on canvas for Father’s Day as a gift for my dad but I can’t decide which one I should get for myself. Which one would you pick?

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