Before I forget ...

There are things that I forget. I forget them after a week or a month or a year, and if I don't write them down now then they will be lost. So here is the random crap rattling around in my head:

• Lucy's name for Caroline has evolved quite a bit since Caroline was born. For a long time, Lucy only called her "Baby." This is a name which both Steve and I have continued to use long after Lucy stopped. Lucy then called her Caroline, but it sounded like "Deh-hine." Earlier this year she finally figured out how to pronounce Caroline, and would get very angry if we continued to call her "Deh-hine."
  
• The reason that I started thinking about Caroline's name evolution is because Caroline just recently started saying her own name. It is not an easy, one-syllable name. So sometimes it sounds like "Hine" or "Cay-ine." Either way, it's adorable and I make her say it just so that I can get a chuckle.
  
• For a long time, Lucy wanted to control her wardrobe each day. While we obliged for the most part, we wouldn't let her wear short sleeves and sandals in the winter, nor would we let her wear a sweater with long sleeves in early September. She has since gotten over this but has decided to start throwing a stink about two things: socks and her coat. She INSISTS on picking out her own socks in the morning and they must never be matching (unless it is a day when she insists that they match). She also incessantly asks to take her coat off, even when it is clearly cold out and would be very uncomfortable to go without.
  
• Caroline has started initiating hugs and it is about the cutest thing in the world.
  
• In case anyone out there wants to share their deepest darkest secret with Lucy, I need to inform you: she is NOT a good secret keeper. For the past two weeks she has been giving me daily updates on the Mother's Day gift she is making at school. Her teachers have been coaching her not to talk to me about it, but whenever I call her on it she just says, "I'm telling Caroline. My teachers say I can tell her, and Caroline wants to know."
  
• Today in a moment of stress and crankiness, I lamented how bad the driver in front of me was. Lucy said that the driver should "keep trying and maybe get some lessons to get better." She had a much nicer suggestion for that driver than the one I was thinking of ...

 That's it. This is a super random post, but I guarantee that if I look back at this a month from now I will have forgotten most of it. They say you lose your mind when you have kids. They aren't kidding.