The reasons I love Julia are varied and countless. Ranking high among those is her ability to think outside the restriction of her age and engage with adults. This morning, I had a million and one errands to run. Before I left I stopped in her room to do something, which I can now not remember. Before departing I grabbed two stuffed dolls and set them at her American Girl Doll's tea table. I placed cups before them and grabbed a note from the cube on her vanity. I scratched, Hi Julia! Would you like to join us for tea? I returned a few hours later with a trunk laden with groceries and such. While Bobby and I were unloading she called out a hello from upstairs. She came down moments later with a list of things to do. On it: 1. Use the bathroom (that one had a check mark beside it). 2. Say hi to Mommy (she promptly pecked me and said hello to me and then, pencil in hand, checked it off). 3. Play Just Dance on the Wii until dinner. 4. Have dinner. 5. Take a bath. 6. Go to bed. The list was largely spelled correctly. I told her that I was impressed and reminded her that we had mass to attend and then dinner out with the family. She said she'd amend the list. I got back in the car to run the second leg of my errand quest and it occurred to me that she hadn't mentioned the tea table. I guessed she hadn't yet seen it. When I arrived home the second time she had two of her favorite stuffed animals at the kitchen table propped with open chapter books. The note on the table read, Hi Mom! Want to join us to read?
She makes everything fun.
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