Bottom and Eve

When we read a book to Mia, she always wants to know the names of every single character in the book.  Kids' books don't usually have many characters, so that is normally easy.  However, her new favorite book is her picture Bible.  She has two different ones, and she loves them both.  It's pretty difficult to name every person on every page.  Mia definitely can't remember all of the names that we tell her.  She wants us to start at the beginning and read the whole thing.  Even a picture Bible is kind of long to read the whole way through, though.  Wesley tried to cheat by saying, "There's the sun." (Flip page)  "There are some flowers." (Flip page).  Mia stopped him and said, "No Daddy!  Read book.  Talk about it!"  So, we read a little at a time.  Mia is good at knowing who Adam and Eve are.  Adam is a little awkward for her to say, so she usually calls him "Bottom".  We're working on saying his name right.  She can always find Eve easily.  Mia finds the person with long hair and says, "That's Eve! She got's no shirt!"  It makes me laugh, but she's totally right.  That's a definitive way to pick out Eve as the only woman in the Bible that ran around without a shirt on.  Haha!  She always wants to find the baby Jesus.  She likes to say, "Ssshhh!  Baby Jesus is sleeping.  We have to be quiet ("quiet" sounds like "kai-et").  Don't wake him up!"  Then she'll point out Jesus as a man.  She always says, "That's Jesus.  He's not a baby."  For some reason, she is obsessed with the story of the paralyzed man that Jesus heals so that he can walk.  Mia gets very concerned.  She says, "His legs hurt! Oh no.  He got's an owie!"  I love that she's so interested in the Bible stories.  The whole daycare goes to chapel once a week, so she already hears some of the stories and songs there.

We all went out to breakfast yesterday to Southern Maid Donuts.  Mia loved her donut covered with sprinkles.  My ham and cheese croissant was pretty delicious, too!