Conversations With Paige

Tonight Paige and I were getting her ready for bed. It was already after 10, so I told her "Okay, we're gonna read 4 books. Which one do you want first?" She asked for Cat in the Hat. So we read that, and I said "We get to read 4 books, and we just read one. So you have 3 left. Which one next?" And so on, until we'd read 4.

Then I said "Okay, I can leave and let you read to yourself, or we could turn the light out and cuddle." She thought for a second, and then said "Light ON and cuddle." So I compromised, and I'm glad I did.

She was so cute. She was breathing loudly through her mouth, because she has a little bit of a cold, and she cuddled her doll and me, and stared at me. I could tell she was thoughtful, so I asked her questions like "Did you have a good day?" She nodded. Then I told her how she's my favorite girl in the world, and how cute and smart and sweet she is.

Then I told her God loves her. We've talked about that before, but tonight she thought about it and then said "What IS God?" in the cutest voice, with the sweetest look on her face. I wasn't prepared, so I said "He's sort of like a person, but WAY stronger, and He made the world, and all the people, and all the animals." She goes "and a giraffe?" I said yes, and that He loves her very much. She just wanted to talk about what He made, so she said "and a princess?" I said yes, and she goes "I wanna be a princess." It made me kind of sad for some reason, so I said "for Halloween next year you want to be a princess?" She smiled and said "Yes. I wanna be a Mickey Mouse princess." Haha. She's so cute.