I used to put quotes up on Mondays, because I spent so much time with Evie on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that I had a lot of quotes to talk about. It sort of became a regular feature of the blog. Lately though it has been skipping around a little bit. I make no promises for the future, but for today its back to Monday!

Nala: meowing like crazy outside Evie’s door
Me: wishing death in every possible way on the cat
Evie: “Nala! Be quiet!”
Nala: falls silent

Who knew that after all this time, Evie has the power to command the cat?! And here I always worried Nala would wake her up, it turns out that would be the best thing for all of us!

Evie and I went to see a Christmas play at a church the other day. She was following along with the action, but at one point, she got really upset. She understood that Mary and Joseph were looking for a place to sleep. What she couldn’t understand was why that was a problem, when there were so many unused benches at the back of the church. She was really upset about it, I had to shush her a couple of times as her insistence got louder and louder. She would point toward the back of the church and say, “But there’s benches! Right there!” I got the impression that she was about to run up to the front and make the suggestion, but the play had moved on by that point. She didn’t let it go for the rest of the play, asking about every 5 minutes, “Is someone going to come sleep on these benches?”

::singing “Hey Diddle Diddle” about 20 times in a row::
“Mommy, can we sing Row Row Row Your Boat? I am sooo tired of Cat and the Fiddle.”

“I can comb your hair and then you can comb my hair, daddy.”
“Okay, that’s fine.”
::combing big circles around the outside of my head::
“I’ll comb the outside because there’s no hair in the middle.”