A WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT

NOTE: This story was told to me by the bride, Kimmy who was in turn told by one of her bridesmaids, Nicole.

We had the recent pleasure of being included in the wedding of our dear friends Bertrand and Kimmy. I was the best man, and my daughter Mia was the flowergirl. Well, everything went off without a hitch - at least from MY vantage point. After she walked down the aisle, dropping flower petals along the way, Mia took her station next to one of the bridesmaids, Nicole.

Let me stop here and just say that one of Mia's favorite pastimes is playing dress-up. She loves to wear her princess dresses and spin around the house. So you can imagine how thrilled she was to be in a beautiful dress, surrounded by others who were all dressed-up.

To continue...

I guess this must have happened during the ceremony. Mia had made the comment to Nicole, "... I like your dress", expecting to hear a similar compliment in return. But since this was during the ceremony, Nicole did not reply. Figuring she must not have been heard, Mia announced, "... I SAID, I LIKE YOUR DRESS!!!" to Nicole. Nicole HAD to acknowledge her and told her that she liked her dress too. Mia was happy, and said "thank you". (sorry about that, Nicole... but you did great with Mia, and she DOES remember you). =)

JUST RELAX

Now fully potty trained, my daughter will go when she has to, and that’s great for any parent. Sometimes, however, she has trouble going #2, and still needs some coaching. One day as she was sitting on the potty, I could tell she was having trouble. I told her to just relax and “it” will come. Well she must have listened because I could hear her successfully “dropping the kids off at the pool”… if you know what I mean. But I wasn’t sure if she was finished, so I called out to her and asked if she was relaxing. The only way I can describe what I heard next was to imagine she was bench pressing 400 pounds or something… still the answer came back a definite, “Y-Y-Y-E-S-S-S-S-S!!!!!!”.

MY PRIVACY:

My daughter was 2 years old at the time and still fascinated by all things new (which, to her pretty much meant “all” things). She was already expanding her vocabulary and discovering how to use these new words. One morning, as I was *ahem* taking care of some business in my “office” (the bathroom for those of you who don’t know me… and for those of you who do, haven’t I told you that I make ALL my important life-changing decisions in the bathroom??!?!!). Anyway, my daughter happened to walk in to see where I was and what I was doing. I immediately told her, “… daddy needs his privacy…” and I gestured for her to go out the door. She looked at me and paused, then said okay and left the bathroom. I thought to myself, “… hmmm, I guess she DOES understand – great!”. A few moments later she returned to the bathroom with a magazine in hand. She gave it to me and with a smile said, “… okay daddy, here’s your privacy”. I just about fell off the toilet laughing.