Leave it to Crannie

We've been reading one of her very old Mother Goose books lately at night. Since there are so many pages and so many short stories/poems, I let her choose about 10 or so. I told her it was time for bed after reading, and she asks for "one more Momma, the one with the little boy that loves sour candy." I had no idea what she was talking about, and she says "Mommmmma... it's the little boy with the green shirt. He loves sour candy." She leafed through every single page from back to front until she came to the page about Jack Dandy (who, for the record, indeed is wearing a green shirt).

Handy- spandy, Jacky dandy,

Loves plum cake and sugar candy,

He bought some at the grocer's shop,

And pleased away went hop, hop, hop.

Totally my Crannie to single out and remember a poem about a little boy who loves candy. The picture is hilarious too because it's a little boy holding tons of "sweets" (as Maddie would call them) with a huge smile on his face. Reminds me of Cran.

We were the only losers at the pool today. I say losers, but really I mean it was great. It was incredibly breezy though and really not even all that warm, so there wasn't a soul there today. It was great because they had everything to themselves. Maddie's been doing some great jumps now in to the baby pool and always loves to practice her swims in the big pool. It was weird today because the lifeguard- who we've seen the entire summer- asked me out of the blue how old Maddie was. When I told him 3, he told me that he has a little girl who is 4 and that she and his wife are somewhere in Europe either in Serbia, Yugoslavia, or Italy. I don't know what he meant by 'somewhere' but he said that he works here in the summers and doesn't see them from May until September. I felt so bad. I've finally now realized why he always seems so touched when Maddie and Faith wave 'hi' and 'bye' to him and when Maddie asks him how he's doing and sings made-up songs in the big pool. He told me that she reminds him so much of his daughter. It was really sweet. All the while Maddie was singing yet another made-up song with lyrics that included stuff about princesses, Sesame Place, candy, the HersheyPark theme song, and guns. And, while Maddie was doing her laps Faith was running back and forth doing her cute face and break-it-down dance.

At dinner tonight she asked me to say the prayers first, and then decided to say her own:

Thank you Lord for my great girl friends. Thank you for my Beebster who is very sneaky. What a happy war. (hahahaha).