A Jessie update

I haven't done a true update on Jessie in a while, but here are some things worth noting.  She has a very vivid imagination & now believes she is a magician.  She got a plastic hippo recently & believes she can make him appear & disappear using a the magic word "ag-ga ca daba" aka abracadabra...it's funny & she just moves the hippo behind her back & then in front of herself.  Real magic, obviously :) & she thinks she's hilarious doing this.   She's my little pal all day long & likes to "help" do whatever I'm doing.  She is learning about money & always thinks she needs money to pay for her icee (she & her sister get these at Sams or Target in order to prevent meltdowns...necessary evils).  Last week after she helped clean up the palyroom, she found a penny & asked to put it in her piggy bank.  To her it's a big deal to get a "whole penny" & put it in her piggy bank.  She loves play doh, although, she always reminds me that "we need to put it away before Ella wakes up from her nap".  Ella has tried to eat play doh & Jessica doesn't like that.  On another note, she likes to mix all of the colors of play doh together...it bothers me, no, seriously, like really bad.  Finally, I caved & let her mix it, so now all of the play doh is brown, which looks so appetizing, as you can imagine.  I find myself thinking, is it play doh, a cat hair ball, or a potty accident on the floor??  Jessica has discovered earthworms & thinks they're great.  She thinks all worms are named Jim & that they all have little sisters named Ella.  She likes to pick worms up & hold them.  Thankfully, neither of the girls have tried to eat them, mostly due to the fact that Ella will not touch a worm or anything that resembles a bug in her opinion.  Jessie has discovered Scooby Doo & thinks he's a "silly puppy".  She has watched a few of the old shows from the 70s, but considers them much too scary unless we sit with her.  In fact, we're going through a time where even Dora the Explorer is too scary.  Jessica loves animals & is quite fascinated by all the different types.  She really loves all of her stuffed animals or stuffies as she calls them.  The big ones right now are the giraffe family--mommy, daddy, & baby, Momo, puppy, & a smaller stuffed cat, which is occasionally part of the friends group & occasionally not welcome at all with the other friends.  This small white stuffed cat is named "new kitty lulu".  Kitty Lulu was her ill-fated Fur Realz cat that she received for her 2nd Christmas.  Kitty Lulu was a lovely cat & Jessie did like her quite well, however, animatronic robot kitty + pee = dead Kitty Lulu.   At the time Kitty Lulu met her unfortunate fate, we were having major renovations done in the house & we had an actual dump sitting in the driveway (yeah, real classy!).  All this to say, we put dead Kitty Lulu in a plastic bag & put her in the dump in our driveway.  To this day, Jessica remembers the story of Kitty Lulu & that she went to the dump because she peed on her.  It's hilarious!  At random time, when we haven't heard it in a while she'll just say, "Kitty Lulu went to the dump."  She now has it in her mind that Santa will be bringing her a new Kitty Lulu this year for Christmas.  I didn't mention it at all & then one day a week or so ago she just said that Santa is bringing her a new Kitty Lulu.  Ella, of course, thinks she's getting one also.  We'll see!  Did I mention, these two keep me laughing :)  P.S.  Jessie loves her purple popsicles hence the below pics.  I'll try for some better pics of the girls this week now that they are well!