Taking a Moment to Stop and Smell The Roses

Paloma has been pretty interested in flowers lately. On a walk, we all like to stop and give the flowers a big sniff. Paloma always finishes with a pronounced “mmmmm!”. Paloma’s a bit more interested in the process than she is in the actual smell, though. She’ll sniff just about any silk flower and give it the “mmmmm” approval rating. The other night, in fact, after I put her flower jammies on, she excitedly pointed to her arm. “This?” she says (she uses “this” as a way to ask us what something is as well as to tell us that she wants something). I told her that it was a flower, and she replied by sniffing her arm, and following up with an nice “mmmmmm”. I wish my jammies smelled that nice.

Afterwards, she spent some time talking on the phone and texting. Note the phone receiver pointing outwards and over her shoulder – that wasn’t just some random placement. It is the way she likes to pretend talk on the phone. “Hi!” she’ll say, and then pass the phone back and forth with mommy and daddy.