Stories from Anna

10 Reasons My Daughter Loves Me

2009-05-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

From one of three Mother's Day cards my Anna (3) made for me. (This one she dictated to my husband.)

I love mommy because:

1. Her hugs and kisses

2. She likes me

3. She plays with me

4. She goes to the farm with me

5. She goes to the zoo with me and Ahmomma

6. I love her

7. She likes me.

8. She loves me.

9. She likes to draw with me.

10. She works hard with me.

Happy Mother's Day to me. :)

I love you all the time...but

2009-02-24T17:07:00.000-08:00

Anna: Mommy, I love you all the time...(dramatic pause/thoughtful look)...but not when you're mad.

Unprompted 45mins later...

Anna: Mommy, I love you all the time, even when you're mad.

How wonderful is that. :)

Santa's Cookies

2008-12-07T04:11:00.000-08:00

Mommy: That's right, Santa likes it when you leave him some milk & cookies. Would you like to do that?

Anna: Maybe we can put them in our cookie jar.

Mommy: Why?

Anna: So he won't find them.

Mommy: Wouldn't you like to leave him something?

Anna: We can leave him my green beans. Yes. That's it. Green beans.

BOK! BOK!

2008-09-22T16:49:00.000-07:00

Anna, holding her toy chicken: "Chicken is food too. We eat chicken."

Me: Not this chicken, he's our friend.

Anna: But sometimes we eat chicken.

Me: Yes, sometimes we do.

Anna: That's weird.

Me: Yes.

Anna (in Chicken voice): Please don't eat me, bok! bok! Please don't eat me! You don't want to eat me! Bok! Bok!

Chicken runs from me and hides behind Rabbit.

Anna (in Rabbit voice): Do you want to eat me too?

Me: No

Anna: That's weird.

Me: Yes.

When I'm a Grown-Up

2008-09-15T07:08:00.000-07:00

When I'm a grown-up, I won't have to be sad anymore.

Mommy Mommy Quite Contrary

2008-09-02T16:30:00.000-07:00

In the produce isle:

"Mommy, Mommy, quite contrary, how does your poop grow?"
"Er... I dunno"
"With silver poops, and cockle poops, and pretty poops all in a row!"

Owl Outside My Bedroom.

2008-08-15T05:27:00.001-07:00

I heard an Owl outside my bedroom. He was a little scary. So I said "Go away Owl." And he went away. Then I said "Bye, Owl. See you soon, Owl." When he came back, he was a nice Owl and I wasn't scared anymore.

Queen Mommy

2008-08-15T04:59:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful lady named "Mommy." She was a queen. And she was beautiful. She had a dinosaur friend named Molly. One day, she and Molly went to a festival and rode on a magical merry-go-round. Then she and Molly came home to their castle in the woods, where she lived with King Daddy and Princess Anna. They lived happily ever after.