Layla

1.  Today I was holding Layla, comforting her after a fall, and she was wiping away her own tears.  She then looked at me and said "Mama, I fink Way-ah is MELTING!!!"

Ha!  I love how the brains of children work.  :)  I reassured her those were just tears, and she was not, in fact, melting.  Crisis averted.



2.  (You will only get this one if you know the PBS program "Super Why." Layla knows this program well because it's Finn's current favorite these days...)

I was snuggling with Layla right before she went to bed.  Everything was fine and dandy until she realized she was actually going to bed right then.  Normally she embraces bedtime with open arms, but tonight she just wasn't feeling it:

Layla:  Mama, I don't want to go to bed!!!

Me:  Sorry, honey, it's bedtime now.  Time to sleep.

Layla:  But Mama, I can't go to bed.  See?  It's in my story! "Way-ah. don't. want. to go. to bed."
(Looks up at me hopefully, big smile, because she knows she's pretty darn smart...)

Me:  Well, then we'll just have to change the story.  *ZAP!* See, now the story says "Layla is a happy girl and goes to bed."

Too bad Mama is even smarter, for now.  :)  She went to bed just fine after that.  How could she not??  It was in her story!