Opal at 33 Months

Opal is slowly adjusting to pants.  But only outside.  And not a second longer.  I'll take it.  She is also slowly adjusting to a jacket.  Also only outside.  And not a second longer.  In fact, as I type this, I think we are through the worst of that phase.  What a relief!  She is learning to self regulate too - see how I found her one morning after I told her 'no' to something she wanted.  After searching for her, I found her in her room in the rocking chair, using my jade facial roller on her face.  Another morning she woke up in a bad mood because she was sad that Will was at work.  She told me, "I need to FaceTime daddy so that I can feel happy again."  

Opal loves learning whatever her sisters are willing to teach her.  Violet taught her "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" complete with hand movements and it was adorable.

Opal loves her sisters and her sisters love her, unless she is messing up their Legos, or hogging the TV with Barbie or a show called "Shimmer and Shine."  Opal's big sisters are on a Netflix binge of Liv & Maddy, or as Opal calls it, "Chicken Patty" and she loves the songs in that show that they call "Pink & Blue" and "Froyo Yolo" and Opal can sing all of the words with hand movements as well.

Opal's favorite things to ask this past month are: "What's that sound?" and "What's that smell?"  Usually she is asking these things because she doesn't like the sound or the smell, but sometimes (on very rare occasions) it is because she smells chocolate on my breath.

She is still a loyal caretaker of our friend's stuffed kitty, and in the photos above, she is feeding her Meow Meow "blueberries" for a snack, and below that photo she is feeding Mama kitty a pancake that her older sisters keep sneaking bites of in order for Opal to believe that the Mama kitty is eating it.

Opal's favorite thing to do on our daily walks is to throw rocks into water.  In the above pictures, she is throwing a stroller tray full of rocks into the river by our house, but she will and has settled for puddles and sewer drains.  She loves the splash that rocks make in water!

Opal, you are the spice that gives our family flavor, and we love you so much!!!