Mary, Mary, quite contrary

We didn't name Mary Cate after a nursery rhyme, but we could have. Here's a fun sampling.

• Singing along with the song Dynamite (the Kidz Bop version, of course): The words are, "And it goes on, and on, and on, yeah," Mary sings, "And it goes OFF, and OFF, and OFF, NO."

• Mary doesn't want to go to bed, ever, especially after daylight savings started. Every night, she tells me she's not going to bed because "the sky isn't nighttime yet!"

• We were getting ready for bed the other night and Mary was deep into acting out her own Dora-esque story line. I told her, "It's time to settle down now. We're going to stop pretending and get ready for bed." She responded, "I'm NOT pretending. I'm for real-ing."

This little video that Google Photos kindly made us without asking is perfect. It's 99% amazing, sweet, adorable. Then at the end there's a shot of Mary throwing a fit about something. Kevin used the classic parenting strategy of taking a picture to show her how silly she looked. Enjoy!