Sweetheart's One Liners

Every day as part of our routine, right after breakfast I pour of cup of milk with a lid for each of the girls and we head downstairs to my office/toy room to get started on work for the day. This week I have been sick, and therefore a little foggy headed and not thinking straight, and one day I knew I was forgetting something. We got downstairs and Sweetheart suddenly gasped like the most horrible thing in the world had happened and said, "Oh no, the milk cups! How will we grow healthy and big?!" It was a gigantic tragedy all the way until I ran upstairs to get some. 

I sent Sweetheart to the laundry room to grab something "really quickly."  (Never send a 4-year-old to do something really quickly, in case you somehow didn't know this.) After a very long time I decided I needed to investigate, and I found her sitting in the corner with a gigantic smile on her face, and as soon as she saw me she said, "Mom, this is the place where dreams come true!!" Well, clean laundry is always a good thing!

This one is not something she said, but something she did. A few weeks ago as we were getting in the car to go to church, Sweetheart insisted that her "friends" were buckled in tight, too. We've been used to her imagination for quite awhile, so I dutifully buckled some pretend friends into pretend car seats and we were off. When we got to church she had to hold hands with the friends as we got them inside. I didn't see this part, but Marquis was helping out in Primary and saw that when her class got up from Sharing Time to go to their own class, she had to help each little "friend" to stand up and come with them, to the confusion of her teacher. The friends sat with us all through the rest of church and when we got home she was upset that we had left them in the car, until I reassured her that I had unbuckled them, "they are right here, see?" See then opened the baby gate at the top of the stairs for them so they could go down and play in the toy room. She has had a lot of little fantasies, but I this might have been the first one that lasted hours and hours. 

She came up to me one day out of the blue and said, "Don't worry mom, my blood sugar is not going down." Oops, maybe I need to be more careful when I lecture Marquis about his diabetes!