Paris sucks her right hand, (middle of the) pointer finger knuckle. She has since birth. (I've only met one other person who said she sucked her pointer finger knuckle, my good friend, Laura McBride. She did it into elementary school.) Paris still sucks it around the house/car when she is tired and always in her bed for nap/bedtime.
Paris has never truly been attached to any one blanket or stuffed animal for more than a season but she is very attached to her pillow. The interesting thing about this attachment is it has NOthing to do with the pillow inside the case. I could change the pillow daily and she'd probably not notice. She just loves to carry a pillow with her as her attachment item, like around the house if she is overtired or in the car (always). Now, some pillow cases she grows more fond of than others. She's been attached to a variety of colored pillow cases over the years but mostly she is attracted to the degree of softness the pillow case has. Now that we are settled into our home and she has her own fushia sheets (of course, she picked "bright pink" for her sheets because we all know Paris has ALWAYS loved pink! remember she used to answer people who asked what color hair she had, "I have pink hair."), she is always lugging a pink pillow around with her!
Paris often sleeps naked (like her other siblings, but esply Fletcher. Sarah has mostly outgrown this habit.) Jammies for Colgan kids are mainly for the morning! The complaint about jammies while in their beds is "I'm hot!" So, beside their beds their jammies lie until they wake in the morning and don them for morning playtime.
Paris has loved all things princesses for three years now. She loves Barbies, too. Well before Sarah could have cared two cents about them, Paris was make-believing husband and wife with them. Now they love to play Barbies together. Sarah seemed to finally start liking them because Paris was so into them when we lived in Ashburn. Sarah was probably a first grader when she started playing with them, but Paris has had a thing for Princes and husbands from the getgo. The kids now have three boy Barbies they share and this has made the Barbie playtimes between the three big kids super fun. Even Fletch will join in the fun with the girls, but just for awhile, because after a time...his Star Wars figures win out and he abandons the boy Barbie to play his games in the same vicinity as the Barbie games but no longer participating with his sisters. (I do remember his quote when we lived in Ashburn, "Mom, I have NOone to play with! The girls are ALWAYS playing with the Barbie house, and I don't want to play dolls!")
Paris and Fletcher LOVE to play games together before everyone else wakes up. They have most recently been playing Monopoly in the 7 o'clock hour of each day. They also play checkers, Memory Match, Uno, Go Fish, Old Maid, etc. They love to wrestle and rough house, too. They know that is not allowed in the early morning, however. They inevitably wake the whole household if that rule is broken! Hmm, wonder why? Who do you think is almost always in tears at some point during the wrestling matches?!?! Poor Paris cries like six times a day. Not always from wrestling boo-boos but from one kind or another. Her little head is often getting bumped on this or that, her hair is pulled (by Mommy or Tommy...me b/c I don't "brush like Gammy!!! which means brush really, really softly and don't pull at all!!! ....Tommy b/c he just likes to pull her hair for some attention-getting reason.)
Paris' favorite animals are horses (surprise, surprise!) Her favorite food is raw spinach dipped in "white sauce" which could be Ranch or Blue Cheese dressing. She loves chips and salsa but mainly the salt she puts on the chips! She is still loving Mac 'n' cheese, pears, yogurt and GUM!The girl is obsessed with gum. Loves PINK gum, esply!
Paris loves to read at naptime the Mommy Daughter devotional book with stories of cartoon girls who either really messed up disobeying or did something special that was pleasing to God. By far and away, her favorite book. She also likes anything princess related (of course!) and Eloise, esply Eloise in Paris, and Curious George and Fancy Nancy (which was her 5th bday party theme!) She is now interested in Kaya, the American Girl stories, b/c she got her first AG doll from Gammy when she turned 5. It felt very much like a rite of passage to her when she got her "very first American Girl doll"-what she kept saying to me over and over the day she opened it! That's what having an older sister does...she'd heard the AG stories for a few years now but never had her own, just a possessive older sister's to look at from afar!
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