More Fun from Recent Days

Yesterday we wrote about some cute things my girl has said lately, and this morning I remembered a couple more. Lately she has taken to adding her 'title' to her name. When we play, she often will change which person/character she is being rather quickly, and it is sometimes hard to keep it straight whether she is being Clifford the big red dog, or Larry the cucumber, or Buddy the T-rex, so I will ask her who she is. When she is just being herself, she will reply, "I'm Elise, the grown up girl", just to make SURE I know who she is. She often congratulates me on being a grown up girl too, and is quick to cheer for any grown up girl activities. What fun!

The other funny happened again on Sunday. She had taken a little break with Daddy, and when she came back to the nursery room, they opened the door. My girl paused for dramatic effect, then proclaimed, "Elise is here!", as though the party and fun could now start because she had arrived! It was hilarious!

On Monday night, Elise took charge for Family Home Evening (FHE). She picked all the songs, which she has been working on all week. We were learning The Church of Jesus Christ together, and through the week I'd hear her practicing all by herself. She's getting good. And she even taught the lesson. She used her handout that we did in nursery to tell a very simplified version of the Easter story. It went something like, 'When Jesus died, his friends were sad, and put him in a cave called a tomb. There was a round rock in front. After three days the rock was moved and Jesus was Resurrected, which means he was alive again! His friends were very happy!" She had the tomb, rock, and picture of Jesus to show us how it went, and did very well. I think her Daddy was a bit surprised at the simplicity of the story, but we got the point and learned that new big word, RESURRECTED. And she even told us that this coming weekend is General Conference for the church and we will see the Prophet and the Temple in Salt Lake City on TV. SHE DID GREAT!!!! I love it when she wants to pretend sacrament meeting or nursery class time. She likes to be the one conducting the meeting and giving talks, although she gives me turns as well. She really likes the part where she gets everyone to raise their hands. And she likes to sit on our carpet squares and tell me the stories about the pictures of Jesus too. She is a great teacher!

As fun as all of those things are, her new favorite thing she rediscovered is blowing bubbles. She will blow bubbles for a long time, sometimes with my help, but sometimes all by herself. She has a spill proof container, and has figured out (finally) how to actually blow the bubbles. While she really enjoys popping the bubbles or trying to blow them around once they are formed, her favorite part is getting on her hands and knees to mop the floor after it gets all soapy from the bubbles. She LOVES to have her bowl/bucket and rag and drip water all over the floor. She tells me all about how she is like her friend Cinderella. I got a video of her doing this, and we even turned on the Cinderella music for her to sing with while she mopped. It was so cute! When she dips her finger in the water and then holds it up, she is pretending to be Cinderella from the Disney movie (she blows bubbles in her soapy water). After this first time of bubble mopping, I learned that I could mop up real quick and get most of the soapiness, and then give her just a little water for her own mopping.....there seemed to be a rather large puddle after this mopping....

So, if you want to come over to play, we'll be blowing bubbles and being Cinderella all together!