Lately if Monica or I have made mention of Disney, or Florida, or the princesses, or anything Disney related, Addie says, "You know I don't want you to talk about that place because it'll just make me want to go back!" Mom and Dad are still learning boundaries! - "Dad, sometimes I can see stuff you and Mom can't, like invisible stuff. Like this morning I saw purple stuff coming down from the sky."
- Today we had an exciting morning as we saw an opossum in our backyard. For a bit it went out of our view and I thought it went into a window-well, which can be seen in our basement. We went downstairs to get a look and again Addie's superhero powers came into play, "Dad, lift me up because I can see invisible stuff."
- {A week or so ago I was at her school helping her and other kids build gingerbread houses and a little girl next to me was saying something. I ask her what she said and then Addie chimed in with this...} "Don't worry about 'K', she talks crazy-talk sometimes!"
- Tonight while reading a book about adoption, I asked Addie, without any other prompting and without previously introducing the characters, what was taking place on the page. Her response, "That's the social worker, and she is showing the mommy a picture of the baby they're going to adopt."
I've been teasing with Addie lately saying that I don't want her to get any bigger or older than she is right now, which she finds pretty funny. While I know I can't stop the onward march of time, I wish I could because I love the stage she is at right now. I know that all too soon the innocence of the statements above will be replaced by the words of a school-age girl, and then those of a teenager, and so on. I know parents with older kids will tell me that each age and stage has its own merits, but I'm not ready for those other stages yet. I like my 5-year-old just the way she is.
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