Funny Liv

Yesterday while driving in the car I hear Liv from the back seat say

"Warner, can you say follow the prophet?"

I then start singing Follow the Prophet mindlessly as I was driving (we just had our primary program so it was in my head), but Liv immediatly protested, in a kind and gentle way.

"Mom, can you please not sing right now? I'm teaching warner to speak".

 Me- "Sure thing Liv".


Liv- "Warner, can you say Spanish?"

Warner- "Ish"

Liv- "Warner, can you say. . . trash can?"

Warner: "Da"

Liv- "Warner can you say hippopotamus?"

Warner- "Dus"

and on and on until we picked up Dad.

By the time that boy is in school I'm afraid I won't be able to take any credit for what he's learned.

Another Liv story:

Lately Liv is really into talking about her dreams. In fact every night about thirty seconds after we have put her down to bed she will inevitably hop out of bed, and say in her sweetest voice "Mom? Dad? I'm having a bad dream?"  If we are feeling loving, kind, and patient, we will say, "Come give us a hug and hop back in bed ok?" If we aren't feeling patient we will say "You can't have bad dreams unless your asleep, and you haven't gone to sleep yet, now go to bed child".

Now, almost every morning when Liv wakes up I say to her "Good morning Liv, how did you sleep? Did you have any bad dreams last night?" To which she almost always gets a pouty face and says "Yes".  She loves the drama, and I'm horrible, because I like the pouty face so I kind of egg her on.  Well, a few weeks ago, instead of making her usual pouty face she said "No Mom, I didn't have a bad dream, I had a really good dream!" 

"Well hunkydarn. That is wonderful. Tell me about your good dream Liv."

Liv- "I was a blue cup".

After that there was nothing but laughter from me and a very serious and intent face from Liv.

Ah the joys that kids bring.