A little background

My entire life changed that day in January of 2001.  About 10 minutes after she was born they put this tiny little bundle in my arms and said I could be her mom.  And nothing has been the same since.

To steal a line from Rosie O'Donnel, my life was now in color.

More specifically, pink.

She is seven years old now, about to enter the second grade. She is a very good little singer, a pretty good artist, a passionate if somewhat uncoordinated dancer and an excellent student. 

And she is a drama queen.

She spends most of her time in one of her two pink rooms. One is her official bedroom which is painted the color of pepto bismol (she talked me into it).  The other is her downstairs "toy" room, which is eggshell and just contains a whole bunch of pink things -- including her Disney Princess pink TV with DVD and VHS player, her pink sing-along microphone, her pink keyboard, a big pink fuzzy chair and a whole host of costumes and such.

She spends most of her time watching innocuous fluff on the Disney channel -- which is commercial free (for products anyway). But within the last year, she has gone up a number to Nickelodeon -- which is by no means commercial free.  And she is learning so much about the world.....

But she also draws, paints, colors, dresses up, and uses her extraordinary imagination. And about, oh, every 10 minutes or so, she comes out into the living room where her father and I try to do our things, to share some random thought.... and usually she is wearing a completely different outfit from the last time.

It goes like something like this:

Lora: Mom. Zach and Cody are in trouble again.
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Lora: Mom. Hannah Montana has a shirt just like me!
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Lora:Mom,you know how you want to lose weight?
Me: Yeah
Lora: Well, they have Slim Shots! They'll help you get skinny!
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Lora: Mom, you know how all of your plants are dying?
Me: Yeah.
Lora: Well, they have things things, they're glass balls and you put them in your plants and when they're dying and need water, it waters them for you! Isn't that cool?
Me: That's awesome.
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Lora: Mom, you know what I found out?
Me: What?
Lora: If you eat too many Cheetos, the top of your mouth hurts.
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Sometimes we laugh. Sometimes we roll our eyes. Sometimes we look at each other and say, "WHAT did she just say?????"

But we are always amazed at  her sharp wit, her humor and her wonder at learning what this world is all about.

So, stay tuned for more
"Dispatches from the Pink Room"

Lora's Mom