Oslo

I have mentioned before how much Lily loves her ABC cities board. She has been on a kick for the last few days where she wants to hear about Oslo each night. Tonight though, as we walked over to her board after reading her Bible story and saying a prayer, she said "You sit there Mommy (pointed to her bench), and I tell about Oslo." She pronounces it "Osolow" each time. Here is the story she told me...

"Osolow is in Norway. It is far, far away from here. It cold there. People used to live there named Vikings (pronounced "wikings"). They wore helmets. You know what funny about those helmets? (Dramatic pause) They had horns! (as she points to head and starts laughing)." I reply how silly that is to have horns on their helmets; she thinks having horns on a helmet is hysterical.

I then ask her what the Vikings built. She replies "Boats. They use oars to move boats. They go vroom-vroom on this side and vroom-vroom on the other side (demonstrating how to use an oar on one side of her body and then on the other side). They use a sail. They have one sail and sailboats use two sails. The wikings have one sail on their boat and Things That Go sailboat have two sails ("one sail" because the picture of the Viking boat shows one brightly colored sail on the boat but her Things That Go book has a sailboat that shows two sails)." Obviously, I have been telling her these things over the last few days (though she came up with the one and two sails comment on her own), but it amazes me how she remembers what I say and repeats it back to me. I wish I had this good of a memory! She has asked me a few times about Dakar, Senegal too, but unfortunately, I don't know anything about that place. I just describe what's going in the picture which satisfies her for now.

She then turns on her humidifier "so it don't get too hot in here," turns on her Beatles lullaby CD and then lets me put her to bed. I cannot tell you how much I love the fact that Lily loves to learn about new things. I hope she will keep this curiosity up for many, many years!