A Few Stories

A few recent stories:

1. Lily was talking to Bama about going to see Kendall and Josh. When Bama asked Lily where does Uncle Josh work, she replied "The fire station" which is correct. When Bama asked where Aunt Kendall works, Lily responded "At Publix." Where in the world did that come from?! Kendall worked very hard to become an excellent nurse, so I don't know where that came from. My only guess is Lily loves to go shopping at Publix with me, so maybe since it is something she loves, she assumes Kendall works there. We'll have to work on this one a little!

2. While in Birmingham, Kendall came to visit from Tuscaloosa one day. She, Liz, Lily and Mia went to Macy's to look for new furniture. Lily didn't want to go until Kendall told her there is also a bookstore at the mall where Macy's is; Lily was onboard after that. Time flew by while they were shopping and they soon realized they needed to go to get the girls to bed. Liz told Lily it was time to go home and Lily reminded her Kendall said they could go to the bookstore. Liz told her the bookstore had already closed; that line usually works with Lily. While Lily seemed to agree to that, she said "Hmm. I thought she was serious." Kendall immediately looked at Liz and they agreed they should still go to the bookstore!

3. Liz still works part-time at Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham. Their VBS was going on last week which is why Lily and Mia stayed the week there; this allowed them to attend the VBS and Liz could work the whole week there. One evening, there was a skit that included a man throwing a pie into the face of a lady which of course made most everyone laugh. I say "most everyone" because that evening, Lily informed Liz that she didn't like that man throwing a pie into that lady's face; it was very mean of him. This story got back to the lady, and she came down to explain to Lily that she was okay, and she knew that joke was going to happen. She asked Lily "didn't you think it was funny?" to which responded "no." Our sweet girl didn't like that someone had a joke pulled on them.

4. Mia is really starting to repeat a lot of words now which is great. We'll be in the car, and in the backseat we'll hear Lily say "Can you (fill in the blank)?" and Mia will try to repeat it; they will do this over and over which is great entertainment for them. Well, Mia is starting to remember a lot of animal sounds that we're teaching her. One of the cutest things she does is repeating the Sandra Boynton book "Moo, Baa, La La La" noises. It's so cute to say "Three singing pigs say..." and Mia responds "La la la!" We have a new video camera so hopefully we'll be able to get that recorded soon. She's so cute!