What kind of pie is that?

I know it has been a while since I posted on here, and I feel like we'll never catch up now, and everyday I am missing out on recording the fun and funny things happening for us. Today I just wanted to share a funny story about my girl, and see if I can jump start my posting and get us back on track of communicating with family and friends who are not able to be here for the adventures in person. So, Elise has been doing lots of 'school time' activities lately. We've been working on getting our home a bit more organized and usable lately. That takes going through boxes left packed up from our move here, taking everything out of some rooms, and figuring out what should go back in, and what should be gotten rid of. Logan has made some great shelves for us, and I am feeling more inspired in the new spaces. I have been organizing the books and school type supplies for us to use in such a way that I can offer some variety and quickly pull together fun learning things to do. In the midst of all this, my helper is ever ready to help. We have found a couple of fun skills work books that she really enjoys doing, and is able to complete a lot of the activities on her own with just a little guidance about instructions. She has one that is scissor skills and one that is a sticker workbook. Both work on skills like letters, numbers, colors, shapes, addition, writing, and other important skills. She LOVES these workbooks. Occasionally during our organizing activities, she would become 'tired' and want a break from moving boxes and things. So we would set her up at the table, in the room I was working on, with her workbook. She loved having something she could be working on by herself, and having me right there to help with the instructions for each page. And I was grateful she was still doing learning activities while I was able to get our spaces more conducive to 'homeschool preschool'. She has grown up so much, and I guess I am realizing it a bit more lately. Well, a couple days ago, she was working on the last page in her sticker book. It had pictures of pennies in differing amounts, and the activity was to match the stickers of different objects with a price tag on them to the picture with the right number of pennies. She did a great job matching them all up, and then proceeded to describe each object to me. They were normal things, including a ball, a strawberry, a stuffed bear, and a piece of pie with purple filling. She described the first three items, but when she came to the last piece, she said, "Mama, why is this pumpkin pie purple?" I replied that I didn't think it was pumpkin pie, but maybe some kind of fruit pie. She declared her certainty that it was pumpkin pie and that it was strange for it to be purple. I said, "Maybe it is something like blueberry pie or blackberry pie. Remember the blackberry shake we had? It was purple, even though the berries are named blackberries. Maybe this pie has blackberries inside and they look purple." She looked at me with a face that plainly said I just wasn't understanding her words no matter how simply she explained things to me. (No doubt I've used the same facial expression a time or two...) She let me know blueberries and blackberries cannot make a purple pie since they are not purple themselves. Finally a light sparked behind her eyes, and she excitedly exclaimed, "Mama! It's an eggplant pie! Eggplant is purple, so it must be an eggplant pie!" Well, of course I had to agree, and confess that she is such a smart cookie to have found a food that IS purple that could make the pie that color! She is such a fun girl, and we are so blessed to have her! And we are rapidly getting to the conclusion of our organizing efforts, and getting to the point of being able to better use our space. Elise and I are doing lots of crafty activities, playing lots of games, and doing lots of pretending as well. Logan is hard at work, at the work there is to have, and we're hoping more comes along soon. So, here we are in March, and I haven't posted our adventures, really since last August. There are tons of fun things I'd love to share, and pictures of exciting things like a visit from Grandma Parker and Aunt Beth, Halloween excitement, our Thanksgiving gratitude tree, Christmas fun and travels, my girl's fourth birthday, her HUGE Valentine's celebration for her Daddy, all the fun little things my girl has said and done, the great projects we've been able to complete, and the transformation of our home from a storage facility of things that might be needed to a living space we enjoy being in together with room to have great adventures and get on with the joy/challenge of raising our girl.......maybe I'll get to it sometime soon, and maybe I won't, but in the meantime, I can say that we're having lots of adventures, and will try to share them as they happen, even if I don't go back and fill in all the blanks of the last few months. We hope all is going well for you, and if you need some excitement, you might want to think up a recipe for some eggplant pie, it could be an adventure!