These Boots Are Made For Clompin'

Somebody stole her momma's boots, and she is currently clompin' around the house.

Mere minutes after snapping this picture, The Princess and I were face-to-face in the middle of a monstrous community giggle fit.  She snorted like a pig and then found that so hilarious that she flailed around like only she can do...and whacked my nose so hard I saw nothing but a flash of white for a moment.  Now it's numb.  Here's hopin' I don't end up at the office with two black eyes tomorrow.

But, ya know, even if I do, it'll totally be worth it.

I am simply amazed every single day by this little girl.  It's all of the little things, really, that are just so BIG in our house.  Even a year ago, I don't know if I would have been able to take a picture of my girl looking at the camera.  At that time, she wasn't so engaged.  If I laughed, she usually didn't.  Her idea of playing pretty much consisted of sitting alone in her room and stimming on one object past the point of obsession, screaming bloody murder when she finally realized that she simply couldn't stop what she was doing, that the activity had taken over and she didn't know how to move onto something else.  Interactions by that point largely consisted of prying the object out of her fingers while she screamed and cried and ran away.

So you see why this would be worth two black eyes, right?

Yeah.  Me, too.