You know those pets who go for your jugular if you come near their food while they are eating? Well, this is the toddler equivalent:

On Friday night, those of us who cannot drink alcohol demanded a trip to the ice cream parlor. We then did our best to work off some of those calories by walking down to the boardwalk. Stella ran around the compass rose about 649 times. Show off.

In viewing these photos many of you might proclaim, “Oh My! She isn’t wearing any pants!” Whereas those of us who live with her are joyful at the fact that she is actually wearing underwear.

When God was handing out imaginations Stella must have gone through the line about 6 times. With predictable regularity, she will do or say something that, seemingly, comes straight out of left field. Whenever possible, we try to capture these moments on film so that later in life – like, oh, say, 13 years from now when she is trying to be as normal as possible – we can show her that she should just stop trying because it’s not in her genetic make-up to be normal. “Go with it,” we will tell her, “fighting it will only make it harder.”

The following photos were taken of what we can only surmise was her own personally-hosted career day. (Clicking through the photos – as opposed to viewing them in slide-show format – will allow you to see their titles).

DISCLAIMER: We did NOT pose her for any of these photos, but rather photographed her in the environment (and attire) in which we found her.