FloFlo.....basically

I can't believe how grown up Flora acts now.  Well.....most of the time.  She still likes to dance around in her underwear and cry on the floor sometimes and crawl under the table if she's not a fan of dinner -- but then again, there are probably a lot of grown ups who do those things too. 

ANYWAY. 

Flora was sitting with me on the couch working on a project.  Scout started yelling for her from his bedroom.  He wanted her to come see a new level he had achieved in Angry Birds.  He yelled and yelled and she ignored and ignored until she finally put down her project with a big sigh and bounced back to his room.  A couple minutes later she returned to the couch and told me very matter-of-factly, "Well, two things just happened:  First of all, Scout got to a new level.  Second, I just wasted my time." 

ALSO.

Flora told me yesterday that she and her friend Kivrin had started a secret club at school.  "Uh-oh," I thought, "here comes the clique phase."  But then I was really happy when she described her secret club, The Friendship Club, as a club where all the members get points for being nice to people or helping someone and they all try to get at least 10 points per day!  Isn't that adorable!!??  So then she and Kylie (friend, neighbor, pseudo-sister) decided to make a poster for the club so that when it warms up she can go around the neighborhood asking kids if they want to join (again -- ADORABLE!).  They finished a rough draft of the poster before it was time to leave for school and I laughed when I saw it in her room later.  Along with the name of the club and some fun graphics, there were the words "STARRING FLORA AND KIVRIN" with the word "STARRING" crossed out and replaced by "HOSTS."  Even in creating a club to help other people Flora can't help but cast herself as the star. 

AND.

Flora's favorite word right now is "basically."  She basically puts it in every sentence.  Basically she just uses normal words except for "basically" and occasionally she'll throw in a "technically."  Talking to Flora is basically like talking to a grown up now that she understands basically everything.