Ukraine Adoption

Tara-isms Part XI

Tara is in the bathroom when she calls out to her brother: "Austin, can you do me a favorite and get me some toilet paper?"

"I have a lot of new friends at my new school," she says. Oh good, I say, what are their names? "I don't know."

It's time to go, I tell Tara in the morning. She looks at the clock and says, "I know, it's already 35!" Hey, if you don't know, you make it up.

Christmas in September? I tell Tara that we should get her a booster seat for the car. "Santa can bring that," she says. Another day, I am cleaning out her closet and tell her she will need new winter boots this year. "We'll just have Santa bring that for me," she says matter-of-factly. Thoughts of Santa already?! And is he rich??

I ask Tara what she wants to be this year for Halloween, she says butterfly princess. I say, but you're always a butterfly princess on Halloween. She says, "I know, because that's what I am." Indeed...