Mya Monday

There’s a place for everything. Even for boogers. Yes, boogers! “Boogers get in a booger bus and go to the booger town”, says Mya. Whhaaat…and you didn’t know that? Beyond my mature imagination is where this lies and it tickles me to pieces when she comes up with these wacky and crazy ideas that are out-of-this-world! I have to admit, it’s amusing and I can’t help but to bust out in a laughing frenzy from some of the things she says. Mya has been Little Miss Chatterbox since she was a babbling baby, but her recent growth spurt in speech and vocabulary are what we are most impressed with. She’s speaking in complete sentences and even knows when to use plurals. How she got the plural concept was beyond me. That lesson was somehow easier to teach than trying to explain to her that the moon was not following us. We were in the car as I was driving and a question arises. “Mommy!? Why is the moon following us?” “It’s not following us, Mya.” “Yes, it is. See? It is following us.” So we went back and forth battling out the logic in the moon…and why it seemed like it was following us – but it wasn’t. I think I did pretty well without any Cliffs Notes. At the end of our car ride, she was left slightly puzzled, a bit overwhelmed and somewhat content. Now – if we can only convince her that monsters do not exist in bath tub drains…