The Things She Comes Up With...

The last time my mom came to visit, Bailey stood on the scale in the bathroom. I asked her how much she weighed, and she said, while looking straight ahead at the wall, "Sixty dollars."

During that same visit, she also said, "Grandma is sick. She has a baby in her tummy."

One day, Bailey had disappeared while I was putting away laundry. I called her, and she came into the room. I asked what she was doing, and she said, "I was just learning to do something." "What were you learning to do?" "Um, read and color." "What were you coloring?" "Afternoons."

One day Bailey said to me, "Oh, I love you. You are so good and helpful, and you love me."

Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a twenty year old. She'll just come up to me and say, "How is the afternoon?" When she knew I had gone to see a movie with some friends the night before, the next morning she asked, "So, how was the movie?" I couldn't believe she even remembered I had gone to see a movie.

One time she asked, "How are you doing tomorrow?"

Bailey said, "This fudge is a little bit spicy." I said, "Um, I don't think it's spicy." She replied, "No, it is! Mmm, but it's delicious!"

She came up with this completely on her own one day after I had given her a cookie. She said, "This is a horray cookie. Horray, I got a cookie!"

I don't remember what I was talking about, but I was saying how something cost $7, and she said, "You've got to be kidding me!"

After we had our big snow fall, Bailey asked, "Can I eat the snow?" I said it was clean snow, so she could eat it. She put some in her mouth and said, "Mmm, it's like lunch."

Snow kept getting into her mittens, and her hat would fall down over her eyes. She said, "We're having a rough time."

After I had gone down the hill, she said, "Are you okay, Honey?" She calls me Honey all the time. She knows my first name, but I think she thinks Honey is another name for me as well. We were walking down the hallway at church last Sunday, and she dropped something and said, "Honey, wait!"

One day she asked me, "Can I wear a princess dress when I get married." I said sure. She started smiling and dancing, then said, "When I'm big and strong like you, I can get married. I'm going to marry YOU. Sawyer won't be born yet. He'll be little, little in the hospital. Then when we're done getting married we'll drive to the hospital and say, 'How are you?' Then we'll get married again!" She talks about getting married all the time (usually to Skigh).