Out of the mouths of babes...
Elliott and I went to visit with Great Grandma Floris yesterday at her apartment. When we came in, Grandma was sitting in the dining room visiting with some friends of hers. We sat down to join them. Elliott was in prime entertaining mode. Those of you who have seen her do her spinning routine know what I'm referring to. But yesterday - instead of physical spinning - it was verbal spinning.

She told the women all about her bed. She has three beds, one on top, one below, and one in her pink tent. But now she goes potty before she goes to bed, so she doesn't have to get up at all during the night. One of the women commented that it sounds like her mom has got her trained. Elliott responded, without skipping a beat - now we just have to train my dad!

This was after Grandma had asked her what Daddy was doing today, and she said that he was watching t.v. - and that's all he ever did on days that weren't school days. Just watched t.v. and ate more than mommy thinks he should so he's not hungry for dinner. The ladies got quite a hoot over that. Poor Chris though - it's really not an accurate portrayal. The guy works just as hard around the house, if not harder, than any of us girls. And he may snack a bit - but I wouldn't say that he grazes straight through the weekend.

So - I questioned Elliott further on what we needed to train Daddy for. She said that we needed to train him not to tickle and tease so much, and we needed to train him what was wrong and what was right, and there was one more thing that escapes me now.

She was in prime form - she even sang songs for the ladies. Not the alphabet song, or nursery rhyme songs. Songs that she made up about going grocery shopping, and winter, and spring - and I do think she would have continued on and on.

It was quite the visit - but it really makes me wonder what her preschool teachers get to hear about. One of the ladies had been an early elementary teacher and she laughed remembering all that she got to hear about the families of her students. She said that she never got too worried over it...

So here's to training Daddy :)