cheeseburgers and babies

Sadly, Allecia and Kaden left this morning. But it was a great visit and I'm already looking forward to a few weeks from now when Rachel and I go visit them and the brand new little baby they'll have by then. Rachel just found out this morning that Miss Allecia has a baby in her tummy (I told her so that next time we see them and she has a baby, she will at least have been forewarned!). Later today after they left, she lifted up her shirt and told me there's a baby in her tummy, too. When I told her that only grown up ladies have babies in their tummies sometimes, she said, "I big girl. I go potty." I guess she thought that qualified her to have a baby in her tummy, too.

We had a great night last night. I had been planning for several weeks to surprise Allecia with a baby shower while she was here. It took lots of planning and a few little white lies while she was here, but we pulled it off and she was completely shocked. I was thrilled to have made her so happy and given her such a great time with friends she wasn't expecting to see while she was here. (Unfortunately in this picture I'm sitting closest to the camera because everyone's feet were in the way, and therefore I look 10 times bigger than everyone else in the picture! Ugh! It's the only picture we took!!)

After dinner last night (before the shower) Allecia and I were in the living room playing with Rachel and Kaden. Rachel and I had built a wall with her big building blocks, and there was a window in the wall which Rachel was pretending was a fast food window. She was buying pretend chicken nuggets and french fries, and we were taking turns being the one ordering. After several rounds of chicken and french fries I decided to ask her for a cheeseburger instead. When I did, she waited a minute, looked at me with a blank look on her face, said, "Okay," and proceeded to stick her finger up her nose and hold out a pretend 'booger' to me as my cheeseburger!! After I stopped laughing so hard I had tears coming out my eyes, I realized that she's never had a cheeseburger and really doesn't know what one is. She really thought I said booger, and she does know what those are! Oh.....my funny girl.