Claire loves to tell stories. Her playtime is sprinkled with conversations she creates between the different characters. Sometimes those characters are in her head, and sometimes she’s talking to her toys. Most of the time, she’s talking for her toys. Many times, she’ll ask me a question, and then it will morph into a conversational story, complete with different voices for the different people.
For example, this is what she said the other night.
“Does Sleeping Beauty type her blog, Momma? Does she type it at night?” Claire asks me, as she’s snuggling under her blankets. It’s time for her to go to bed, and she often has questions or things to tell me at the end of the day. Sometimes I think it’s a stall-tactic to avoid bedtime, but other times, I can tell she’s just curious about all the different thoughts swirling in her head at that particular moment.
“She might, if she has time. What do you think? Do you think Sleeping Beauty types her blog at night?”
“I bet Prince Phillip says, ‘Don’t type your blog now. Don’t type it tonight. Do it in the morning,’ and Sleeping Beauty says, ‘Okay!’ And then she doesn’t! She types her blog in the morning!” Claire says with excitement, changing her voice into a deeper voice for Prince Phillip and into her high-pitched signature princess voice for Sleeping Beauty.
It’s good to see that Sleeping Beauty hasn’t let the Internet take a higher priority than her relationship. Yet. I mean, “ever after” is a really long time. 
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i love that she’s using the word blog in her stories. a true sign that this generation will be totally tech-oriented/savvy!
I think the just-before-sleep time is an excellent time to have some really good conversations with kids. I always found out the most amazing things (and still do) at that time. I think it’s the one time of day when everything has settled down enough to have these conversations.