June 29, 2011

• 6-28-11

   

  Madeleine is pretty funny.  She says a whole bunch of funny things these days.  She’s also really sweet, but that’s a different story, I guess.  Madeleine and I were just eating cake leftover from the Cousin’s Day party, and she said she really needed a wet wipe (because she was so sticky; a regular napkin wouldn’t be good enough).  I said she knew where they were.  She said she was too busy eating to get it.  I told her I was too busy eating to get it, too.  Then she asked me, “Who will get it?  Mr. Nobody?”  So I said I guess Mr. Nobody would get it, and then she ran and got it herself.  I didn’t know she knew about Mr. Nobody. 

  Merrie Jo, Jameson, and Brogan have been in town for two weeks now, and we’ve had a fun and exhausting time with them.  My mom’s good friend’s daughter died, too, and so that created extra work for Mom and extra get-togethers for all of us.  So sad!  But I was going to tell about the Cousin’s Party.  After the day of the tornadoes when Madeleine said that when MJ and Jameson came she was going to “throw a party at them”, Merrie Jo came up with the idea of having a cousins party, and perhaps we’d give presents then, when we’re all together, instead of mailing them for birthdays.  So today we had a little party at lunchtime, with cake and ice cream and a few presents.  On the way home from Grandma’s house, Madeleine was asking me about when Merrie Jo would be coming back.  I said next summer, maybe, and Madeleine said that was a long time away.  Then she was telling me about something she was going to do when they came back.  It took awhile to get it out of her, but then she said she was going to have a party.  I asked if it was going to be like the cousin’s party we just had, and she said no, it was going to be a “real party”.  I asked her what made a party real.  She said you know, balloons… and a pretty cake…  I asked what made a cake pretty, and she said you know… sprinkles…  And I said Merrie Jo and Jameson had made us a cake for our party with sprinkles.  Madeleine said not like that one, and something about how that cake was too pretty.  I asked what made it too pretty, and she said it was the cereal balls on it (they decorated it with fruity colored cereal).  I asked her if she didn’t like those, but she said she did, but that she had just wanted to grab them and eat them.  So.  I guess next year we’ll have to get balloons, and make sure the cake has sprinkles, but isn’t too pretty. 

   

  I know I had more to write, but I was interrupted in the middle of the last paragraph and now it’s the 29^th – Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! – and for some reason I’m really achy today and sitting is really uncomfortable and I’m done for now.  Toodles! 

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