11/21/2008 More Lacie-isms

Lacie has been full of it lately – full of what I call “Lacie-isms.”

1. During dinner I often ask Euitag about life in Korea and/or life with his family. Tonight I asked him if people lived with their parents in Korea until they got married. Lacie heard this conversation and said, “Married? Married? Boys don’t get married!” I told her that boys do get married. “who do you think the girls marry?” AND I told her that daddy married mommy and daddy is a boy. She said, “oh.”

2. We are getting together with our china friends (Lacie’s play group) and also the international adoption father/son playgroup to play at the same place tomorrow. I told her that her friend Noah and his new brother Mikah were going to be there. Lacie said, Mikah? I said yes, remember Noah has a baby brother who just came home from China. (Mikah has albinism). Lacie said, “mommy he can’t be from China.” I said, “why?” fully expecting to hear, “because he is white.” But instead she said, “because, he is a boy.” Ahhhhh – oh my dear daughter – she thinks only girls come from China.

3. Paul has a tendency when he gets mad to throw himself back and knock his head on whatever is behind him. If he does it to a person and gets their head we call it “head butting.” Since we are still co-sleeping, sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up to him “head butting” me. It is a very rude awakening – it hurts pretty bad. I was sharing the story with John in front of Lacie and when I said that Paul “head butted me,” she responded with “Ewwwww YUK! I think she thought Paul was putting his “butt” on my head.

4. Lately she has been real curious as to where she and Paul have come from – and I do not mean China or Korea. But she has on two separate occasions informed me that either she or her brother came from my belly. I keep reminding her that they both have a birth mom and they came from her belly. God brought mommy and daddy to China and Korea to adopt Lacie and Paul so we could all be a forever family. So, tonight I was a bit surprised when Lacie asked me while reading a story about baby Jesus – how he got out of his mommy’s belly. “how did he get out of her belly mommy?” I just told her that God made a special place and we would talk about that another day.

Our Thanksgiving holiday is coming up. We have so much to be thankful for.