Psychic predictions

George got to put Faith to bed tonight (since tonight is the season finale of 24!! and I'm completely addicted). So, he got to experience her normal flights of conversational fancy that tend to happen just before she goes to bed, usually when she's sitting on the toilet. She apparently does her best thinking there...similar to George.

Tonight she informed George that he was going to die a week after she got married. OK.
He said he'd like to see his grandchildren. She thought this would be alright. Then she wanted to know if he would like to be Grampa or Papa. He wasn't sure, so she informed he should think about it and tell her in the morning.

Today, we also visited Faith's old babysitter who gave her a My Little Pony memory game. This afternoon I worked upstairs while George and Faith played downstairs. When I came down, she wanted to play the game with me. When I asked George if they had played it as well, he said about 30 times. Seriously. I played it four times myself. We have definitely redeemed the value off this gift in playing hours, and in just one afternoon.

No means yes...

We were playing "tickle machine" tonight and Faith suddenly said, "Ok Mom. No means yes and stop means keep going." Mmmm... I'm sure the women's movement would love to hear this one.

Accountants vs. fire fighters

Faith and her daycare class visited the Fire Department in town on yesterday. This was quite the thrilling experience. George picked her up from daycare and heard all about it. (I was at a work event.) Apparently she thought fire fighters were so cool that she wants George to be one. I guess accountants just aren't interesting enough . :)

The birthday parade...

We have so far survived the birthday parade that is the May. Faith, as usual, had multiple parties...one at Gramma's house, one on her birthday at our house, and a "princess party" with her friends from daycare and school.

The princess party was on Saturday and it actually went really well. All the girls (7 in total) were very cute in their princess dresses and play jewellery. George and I had the whole event planned, including a craft to make a tiara which we thought would take about half an hour. No way! These kids were power crafters! They were done in 15 minutes tops and ready to go.

Next were games, playing, decorating of cupcakes (a power sugar event), and then opening of presents and home. Faith said thank you to everyone (finally!) and was quite happy with her barbies, polly pockets, crafts, games, necklaces and so on.

All in all a successful event, but I never want to be a party planner! It was freakin' exhausting!

Birthday planning, etc.

Last night I spent the evening making birthday party invitations for Faith's 5th birthday. She is inviting 6 girls from school and/or daycare to a princess party. There is nothing like wading into the social minefield of kids' birthday parties. Who to invite, who not to invite, etc. etc. etc. It's in two weeks, so we'll see how it goes.

Today, I kept Faith home for the morning so we could both hit the doctor. I have red eyes again and a sore throat so I was suspicious that we might have the whole pink eye/strep throat thing again. Not something we want to repeat. According to the doctor, however, we have something viral and it will just go away on its own. Yippee.

While we were waiting to go to the doctor, Faith was sitting at the coffee table coloring when she exclaimed, "Look at all the chocolate Daddy ate without me!" George has been doing tax returns on the couch and nibbling away at Easter chocolate. Last night he left the evidence of his actitivies in the form of many crumpled, shiny wrappers sitting on the coffee table. Faith didn't care he was eating her chocolate, just that she missed out on the action. A lesson: never leave incriminating evidence!

At supper time, Faith and I were talking and I had forgotten to turn off the news. The last time this happened it was on City TV and the show "Fashion Television" came on. Faith was quite excited that people were "showing their privates" on TV. George and I clued in after glancing over at the TV and getting an eyeful of see-through shirts walking down the runway. Great.

Tonight, she said that she wanted to see the people showing their privates on TV again. I, of course, asked why.

"Because it was funny and rude," she replied.

The entire fashion industry summed up by a four-year-old.

Sunday musings...

Faith has been very concerned about her birthday lately. This morning while getting ready for church, we asked her what she would like for her birthday. She thought about it for a moment and then decided that she wanted a "boy Barbie". She also stated that "Daddy could buy it because he likes men."

After I stopped laughing, I told her that was a very good idea. :)

Faith looked very nice today for church in her new yellow dress with pink flowers. (An Easter present from Gramma.) She especially like the ruffles in the skirt. This was apparent when during the church service she started wiggling her butt to make the ruffles swing back and forth. Nice.

Other than that, we're all just waiting for tax season to end next Monday. yippee!

Dad called this morning at 7:00 to let us know the good news. He has a new filly. I woke up Faith so he could tell her personally. She was sleepy but happy to hear the news.
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