Stories

DADDY: Tell me your favorite things that happened yesterday and today.

MAEVE: I'll tell you two things today and one from yesterday.  Yesterday we went to Nana's to sleep over.   And we saw our whole family.  Well, not our whole family.  We had a lot of fun.  I can't wait until we do it again.  We watched a little of a movie.  I watched a little of The Grinch and a little Frosty the Snowman and a little Rudolph.  Today we played Memory today and getting the trees.

Getting the trees was a lot of fun.  I do not know why Uncle Louis did not go.  Gramma and Papa went and Gramma wore headgear that looked like reindeer horns.  

Where is the tree now?

D: It's on the porch.  I haven't put it up yet.  Maybe we'll just leave it out there this year.

M: Santa's gonna be confuuuuuuuuused.  

D: What else happened today?

M: I had bacon for breakfast.  But, Daddy, I didn't have any grits!  Will you read this to me?

D: Yup.  Let me get Addie's story first.  Addie, what was your favorite thing that happened today?

ADDIE: I don't want to do a story.  [She taps her temple with one finger, thinking.]  Okay, chopping down Christmas trees.  Actually, I do want to make a story.  Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Addie and that's me.  And there's my big sister and she was named Maeve.  And Maeve decided that she didn't want a Christmas tree, but I decided that I did.  So we cut down the Christmas tree and then we put it on Amy's truck.  The end.