Lily's Mind

Lily amazes us each and every day. We see how her mind works now and we can only shake our heads and smile. The conversations we have with her, the questions she asks, the connections she makes and the amount she remembers baffles us. Here are just a few that make us smile and hope that gives you a little laugh too.

Conversation:

Setting-We were finishing dinner, I was trying to feed Emma some more and Mike started to clean up and do dishes. And all of a sudden Lily says...

"Daddy, you gay." When we hear this, Mike and I look at each other with blank looks, smiles on our faces and at the same time look at Lily and say, "What did you say?" She responds, "Daddy you gay." Hmm..ok. Mike and I look at each other again and through our looks try to figure out what to say to her. Mike then says, "I'm gay?" "Yes, Daddy you gay. You gay like me." She says this while stroking her legs to show us her GRAY sweatpants she has on. Mike and I both look at him and notice he not only has on gray sweatpants but also a gray shirt. We both start chuckling and agree with her.

We don't have many of these confusing conversations with Lily but more often than not we need her to repeat things so we fully understand what she's talking about.

Questions:

What are you talking about Mommy?, Where are we now? (when we are in the car), What we need? (when she sees me writing a list she wants to write one too), What's the title of this book?, Mommy, can you teach me how to...play this game, write my name, read. She also asks Why? She asks it a lot! Sometimes she means to ask how, who, when but most of the time I believe she really just wants to understand. She also just started to really think about what she wants to say and tells us her complete thoughts. Like this morning we were getting into the car on our way to Lowes and she said, "Daddy, when we get home from Lowes can we put out more bird seed for the squirrels?" Needless to say that knocked our socks off and started clapping which led to the biggest smiles from our girl and her feeling very proud of herself.

Things She Remembers:

*Walgreens, the one we go to and she can point out any other Walgreens we pass while out driving even if we've never been there. The same thing with 7-11s. Why does she know these? Walgreens is where we pick up our prescriptions and 7-11s have slurpees of course!

*She loves to go to Sam's Club and Target because they have pretzels and lemonade.

*As soon as we get into the vicinity of our house, from any direction, she knows that we're almost home. If I were patient while driving she could probably tell me where to turn and how to get there.

*Where her friends live and if we pass or go in the direction of their houses she asks if we're going to see them.

*While shopping, she will ask if she can get something. We usually say no and when we do she gets this look on her face and says, "Then I ask Santa to bring it to me next Christmas".

*If for some reason we tell Lily she has to wait until tomorrow to do something like recently painting with her aquadoodle...she remembers! As soon as she gets up!

Gotta Love Ya Lil!