Love is Blind~

My darling MK keeps me smiling and on my toes!  She has been so funny over the last 2 months carrying around the below doll.  Do you notice anything unusual or different about her?  Well, our beloved "Trigger" chewed her right arm off shortly after she got her for her birthday from a friend.  Well, she has not blinked an eye about it.  She carries her everywhere-church, the store, the playground, wherever!  She got a few other dolls for her birthday and they aren't chewed-up.  This was the only that got attacked, but it is her favorite.  It gets quite a reaction from people when we go out and about, especially other Moms. They think it is so funny!  Anyway, this week she came up to me as I was reading on the sofa and showed me her doll.  She said in a sad voice, "My doll looks funny, Mama."  I put down my book and said, " I know, Honey, her arm is chewed-off, but it's OK, she's still special and pretty." She replied back, "No Mama, her hair is wild.  She needs a pony tail."  I just had to laugh!  She didn't care about her amputated arm.  She was concerned about her hair!  Well, as she drove home with my husband from summer camp at our church, she was holding her beloved doll and singing "You can be anything!"  It was too cute :o)

Don't say "gelato"!

As with every family, there are words our children are not allowed to say.  I must admit since we have teenagers now, we have slacked up a bit.  But for the most part we are pretty consistent.  Like my children think the "s" word is shut-up.  Anyway, for some reason, my 4 year old thinks that gelato is a very bad word.  She makes this scared, worried face whenever anyone says it and runs to tell me.  She thinks it is the worst, 4 letter (well actually 5 letter word) there is.  We all now have joined in with her and the word can no longer be used in our house or the offender with get in "trouble". I've tried to figure out why she thinks this.  As I think back over when it started, it was when my children were first introduced to this wonderful Italian ice-cream. My good friend, who lived for a while in Italy, brought my younger ones to a real Italian gelato store in our home town.  Needless to say, they loved it!  Especially my 11 year old son who has very cultured taste buds. He would ask for it on a daily basis. Store bought ice-cream was no longer good enough.  Even Baskin-Robins and Dairy Queen were out!  I think at one point I got so tired of them asking for this expensive delicacy that I yelled out "don't even say gelato!"  Well, this must of stuck with my little MK and she has not forgotten it. It's just too funny and cute at this point to tell her that it's not a bad word but I know, as with all cute things our children do, it will come to end one day.  But in the mean time I just wanted to warn you not to say this word around us or you may have to be punished :o)