Ivy's funnies

Nate and the girls returned from caroling and Ivy was telling me about something she had never seen before. "We sang to a woman that had no hair!" I explained to her that the woman had cancer and had to have some treatments that made her hair fall out. Ivy said, "Oh," and with a quizzical look on her face asked, "Is that how boys are made?"

Today at church we saw a girl wearing a dress that we had given her for Christmas under the name of "Santa". I told the girls to keep it a secret who actually gave it to her, and if they kept it a secret, they could get a treat when we came home. When we were eating lunch, Ivy reminded me of the promise, and I asked, "Did you tell her who the dress was from?" Ivy said, "No, I didn't! I just kept saying, "I didn't give you your dre-ess, I didn't give you your dre-ess."

Well, I guess she still deserves a treat, huh?

After dinner one night, Ivy put my hat on her head and pranced around the livingroom singing, "I'm mommy! I'm mommy!" I said, "Ivy come bring your dishes to the kitchen. She said, "No, I'm not Ivy; I'm Mommy." I said, "Mommies do things without being asked. In fact, they do even more than they're supposed to." She thought about that for a while and then stated, "Okay, then I'm Daddy."