Tonight M asked me whether food makes me, Mommy, grow. I explained that food helps little girls like M and A grow tall, but that when you reach a certain age, food doesn’t make you tall anymore, it just makes you big. Then she asked whether water and juice make you grow. I said that water does, but that juice doesn’t really, because it has a lot of sugar in it. A said, "I don’t like sugar." I told her that candy has sugar in it, and she said that she likes sugar. I said, "But you don’t want to eat too much of it."  A said, "Take the sugar out of your mouth and put it in the garbage." That made us all laugh.

M then asked me how old I was. I said 37. She asked how old Daddy is, and I said 40. Allie is 11. M and A are 3. Then we talked about how old other "people" are:

Baby: 4

Blankie: 10

Piggy: 20

Bunny: 4

Purple blanket: 15 1/2

Blue blanket: A: "I don’t know" M: "How about 5?" A: "I don’t think so."

M’s pillow: 20-10.