There's No Place Like Home

Thank you Aunt Erin, for the sparkly ruby slippers that Teagan has attached herself to so completely. Playing dress up is now a multiple time daily affair in our household.
Saturday morning, our daughter went to spend the night at Mimi and Poppi's house, and she came back home on Sunday with lots of treasures. Some new shoes, a "new" purse, and lots of "new" costume jewelry. She's been walking around our house decked out in shorts, a t-shirt, her ruby slippers, her purple patchwork purse, and piles of necklaces around her neck and on her head (some necklaces don't fit over her head, so she just sets them on top and thinks it's hilarious.)
The things she has been picking up lately are amazing me. Yesterday she wanted to brush her teeth at the same time that I was, and she had to have me pick her up and hold her over the sink so she could "spit". She's even gotten into my makeup bag and gone through the motions of putting it on herself. It's like having my own little shadow every day. We'll ask her to say words, and even though a lot of times her words don't sound anything like our words, she says them with confidence and usually gets the inflection exactly right. I never knew having a toddler could be this much fun!