I Can't Believe How Cool She Is

Sorry if that title is bragging, but I can't help it.

A couple of months ago we were driving home, and Paige was chatting in the backseat. All of a sudden Jess started laughing and said "She talks SO much." I was like "She does?" I hadn't noticed. But then I started thinking about it and she REALLY talks ALL the time. She almost doesn't stop. It's really cute. If she runs out of things to talk about she'll just say something like "Mama.......um.........I.......think....." and just pause a lot to buy time while the thinks of more to talk about. Or she'll be kind of zoning out looking out the windows, but just keeps slowly stringing words together to keep the conversation going. She also plugs the word "only" in randomly, sometimes to start a sentence and sometimes it's just another way to buy some time while she thinks of something to say.

She also really likes to put on little shows for us. This morning she did one for me. I pulled open Microsoft Word as fast as I could and started typing while she talked. So I got this pretty much word for word. The first couple of sentences she was really into it. After that she was sort of playing while she spoke, so she wasn't really even paying attention to what she said. She just wanted to make sure I kept paying attention to her.

I could never REALLY capture the stuff like this that she does, because she's so theatrical about it with her mannerisms and the tone of her voice. I did try and at least put commas and things where she paused for effect. It went like this:

"Hello. (both hands held up in a welcoming gesture for this next line) And welcome to my work. My name is Dr. Toiclett. And today I am drawing things like giraffes and pigs and monkeys and lollipops and forses(horses),lions, bumblebees, tents, keys.

And then. Let me tell you all about my pony. Let me tell you about ALL my animals. This is my project giraffe. And only, I have all kinds of animals in my project. Look, my work is a big building. And only my animals....(loses her train of thought, so she changes the subject) first I am gonna draw giraffe's baby and see how big she is. Watch my work. Watch me mama. Watch this." (Here I finally got the hint and looked away from my typing long enough to satisfy her that I was paying close attention. So she sat back down at her picnic table with her giraffe, pony, and magnadoodle. She put the giraffe down and started tracing the pony, who was playing the part of the baby giraffe apparently. Then she started talking again, while tracing.) "Welcome to my work. And only I am showing how big is the animals. And only this is my project. And only when I was little I was doing my project. Want to see how tall is the baby?" (holds up magnadoodle for me to see) "LOOK! It's 36!" (inches maybe?) "See you later!"

I love her.