Can I Go See Your Car???

I miss Aunt Flo and Uncle Jay when they go away on trips but they always bring me great treasures back from their adventures. From Germany they brought me a yodeling bear (yes, it really yodels!!!), a BERLIN t-shirt and a beautiful German doll. They brought me some really neat beach balls too. I named the yodeling bear-- YOYO. Mommy and Daddy make sure I take YOYO and Belly Belly (a singing bear that Uncle Jay won for me at Starfire Restaurant) with me when I go visit them. Uncle Jay loves to play with all my noisy toys!

I love going to Flo & Jay's house. My favorite things to do there are...slide down the stairs with Uncle Jay, play in their BIG tub (they have colored covers we put over the light), play in the fountain on the sun porch and go downstairs to the garage and visit the cars. I am fascinated with the concept of a garage (the car's have their own room). Aunt Flo and Uncle Jay love to play hide and seek with me (I always hide in the same places). I think I might wear them out. Uncle Jay some times lets me get in the shower with all my clothes on and put my Princess Umbrella over my head to keep me dry. That is sooo cool. Aunt Flo let me go downstairs and pretend to drive Uncle Jay's BMW. I am sure Uncle Jay will let me really drive it someday. I love my Aunt Flo and Uncle Jay!

My Imagionary Friends

I have lots of imagionary friends that come to play with me. Sometimes we have all of the Disney Princesses or Tinkerbell over and other times it is all seven of the dwarfs. Then there are some 5-7 imagionary friends which I call my "children" . They are are here 75-90% of the time. I do take them to school with me. But my Mom says they really need to stay at home while I am at All Saints. Especially the princesses. I don't like for people to sit on them and I am very protective of the princesses. I definatley have twins in my belly (a boy and a girl- no names), then there are some friends I have not given names to but there are some main "children" I definately must never forget. I have two friends who's names are Tunken and Plinklin. They are with me most of the time. I have to get them in and out of buildings, the car, stores, church and the house. They are sneaky and do funny stuff. I talk to them all the time. Sometimes I get mad with them and they get in trouble. A few days ago, Tunkin wouldn't let me put my feet on the couch at naptime. I told her my Mommie would talk with her about that. My Mommie talked to her and she then let me put my feet up on the couch. Tunkin is the oldest. She is bossy and often tells me what to do. I tell Mommie and Daddy on her alot. However, if she goes to her gaga's house, I call her on my princess phone and tell her she needs to come on over here to my house. Plinklin is the youngest and appears to be the quiet one. She doesn't get in trouble or cause trouble much. She plays nicely with me and is more likely to share than Tunken. Tunken usually sits in the front seat of the car with Mommie because she is older and plinklin sits in the back with me. My Mommie had to have a talk with all of us the other day when Tunkin and Plinklin helped me find a green magic marker and we drew on the stool in my room. She told us that if Tunkin and Plinklin couldn't help Mary Catherine behave and not write on things, other than paper provided by Mommie, then they would have to go home and would not be allowed to play at our house anymore. They also have to help me pick up my room. Mommie explained to me that I am responsible for all of my children and the things they mess up or toys they leave out...I have to make sure they pick them up or clean them up. It is hard work keeping up with all these kids. I often tell my Mommie these kids are just wearing me out! We also have an imagionary puppy dog at our house. It is a brown dog and I call her Apaintheia. Mommie and Daddy are wondering if I am part Greek as I come up with these "greek" sounding names. So far the puppy just hangs out and chills. My Mommie and Daddy laugh alot when I am talking to my "friends and the puppy"....I just do not understand why!

GREEK FESTIVAL

My Aunt Flo and Uncle Jay Vinson are so much fun and are very cool! This year we went to the Greek Festival together. Both Aunt Flo and Uncle Jay had to try on my scarf with the coins. They are so silly! We rode the train, played in the jumpy castle and went down the big slide. They had as much fun as I did at the festival. We had so much fun we went twice!

Blessing of the Animals

Today Babbs went to school at All Saints. We had a special event at school today it was called Blessing of the Animals. Everyone brought their pets to school and we met on the front lawn of the school. Father Mark Riggs and the youth minister at All Saints came around and blessed everyone's animals. My class is called the perky puppies and we all wore our perky puppie hats to the event. We looked so cute. Mommie and I bought Babbs a special shirt to wear to the blessing. It was a navy and green golf shirt with pink and white lady bugs on it. She looked so cute. I was glad my friends got to meet Babbs at school. She got a special blessing from the priest.

This has been a busy month at All Saints School. The perky puppies are selling Sally Foster wrapping paper, we have been learning about apples and celebrating Johnney Appleseeds birthday. We made some really neat books and hats about having apples on our heads. We also made apple mask and hats. We have a little song we sing about being a little apple hanging from the tree. The tune is to I'm a little tea pot. It is soooo cute. It ends with see the little wiggly worm poking out. I love to perform this song for my family and friends. We have been learning spanish colors...ROJO is Red and I can say it. Did you all know that Johnney Appleseed wore a pot on his head. I made a pot hat for my head at school. My Mommie thought I was a viking...she didn't know about Johnney Appleseed. I had to tell Mommie all about it.

How Do We Get To Heaven???

As we headed home from school today Mary Catherine was sitting in the back seat. I knew she was being quiet but, I thought she was just sleepy. As we turned on Edisto Drive, she said "Mommy, how do we get to heaven, in a elevator, airplane or in a helicopter?" After a brief pause, I thought...I got this one. I said "Well, sweetheart, we don't use an elevator, airplane or helicopter to get to heaven. We use the love of Jesus that we have in our heart to get us to heaven." Brief pause and she replies is "Is DaDaddy Mac in heaven?" I said "Yes, DaDaddy Mac is in heaven." As she looked down the neck of her shirt where her heart is, she says "But Mommy, DaDaddy Mac was a BIG person how did he get in little baby Jesus heart?" Deep breath and then I attempted to explain the feeling of LOVE to my three and a half year old. Once we got through that extremely confusing conversation, I was hoping this was going to be the end of the BIG questions until her Daddy got home. Oh how wrong I was. Next comment was "Mommy, I want to go to heaven now to see DaDaddy Mac." Holding back all the tears in my overly emotional pregnant body, I say, "Baby,I miss DaDaddy Mac too but we can't go to heaven until Jesus decides we are ready to go be with him in heaven." Hoping she is going to think of something else, I begin to pray. Then in a much lighter voice Mary Catherine says "So what do they have in heaven?" My replies are guarded at this point but and I am really trying to roll with it. I think...got this one..."Oh in heaven they have all the good things you can ever think of." Her little blue eyes lit up and she said "like princesses, ponies, candy, cookies and ice cream?" I said "Sure, if you think those are all good things then I am sure they have all of those things in heaven." There is a quiet pause in the back seat. I am thinking WHEWWWW but holding my breath at the same time! Then all of a sudden she says "So Mommy, do they have cotton candy in heaven?" I think, okay this is odd but, I got this one too..."Sure sweetheart, if you think cotton candy is good, then I am sure they have some of that in heaven." Very brief pause and she replies..."Well Mommy, you know we could just go back to Disney on Ice and get some of that cotton candy we don't have to go all the way to heaven to get it." I about fell out of the car. I have no idea how the conversation went from -how to get to heaven to Cotton Candy at Disney on Ice but all this Mom can say is....WHEEEEEEEEW!