you’ve got mail!

Emilia is all about the mailbox these days.

Sometimes I feel badly for our mail carrier because I feel like Emilia is semi-stalking her.  She’ll wait all excitedly and keep checking to see if she has arrived and then races out to the mailbox.  I think she mostly loves to check for the mail carrier because she knows she’ll give her a lollipop!

the ‘stalker’

But in all seriousness, Emilia L.O.V.E.S. to get mail.  Now, ‘mail’ for her consists of any kid-centered catalogs I might receive (ie: PBK, Hanna Andersson, RagsLand, Learning Express, etc).  She will tote these around for ages and ‘read’ them until they’re literally in tatters and the pages have fallen out.  As part of her birthday present we got her a subscription to “Highlights for Kids” magazine which is meant for the 3-5 year old set.  It comes with little stories/rhymes/poems and stickers along with a bunch of “find it” activities.  She almost passed out when she got her first magazine and I swear completed every activity in it within the first two days (it was a little exhausting).

Now she’s in to letters though.  She got a couple of cards in the mail for her birthday (she carried one from Karl-Anders all the way in Aland around with her for two days before I took it away from her because I was afraid she would lose it).  Then, Kyrie wrote her a letter.  Apparently, sweet Ky has a similar letter-getting obsession.

Since then, we’ve been all about making cards for people….

Kyrie (and Baby Brooks of course)…

The current stack… Grandpa, Tia Marga and Jacksito (but not Duke!), and Nana…

So, be forewarned that there may be some mail in your box from a certain 3 year old!

nice bruise in the center of her forehead.