Why we adore our Mad Hatter

Besides the obvious, of course.

She turned 3 in February.

In the last month, she's really begun to excel at expressing her feelings.

She says things out of the blue that will instantly melt your heart and make you forget that all week long you've been literally talking to yourself (and drinking more heavily, and questioning your ability as a mom) because she has been the out of control, will not calm down, can not stay still for a second, does not listen, crazy insanity that IS a three year old.

So we're finishing dinner tonight and she says something that's not quite decipherable. Then she repeats it clear as day:

"I just love our special sharing time together. I love eating dinner with my family."

DH and I just LOVE being the MH's mommy and daddy.