The other day I had the
privilege of spending several hours with my adorable Charley Ellen while her mom
attended to some appointments.
The first thing we HAD to do
was watch "Tinkerbell & the Legend of the Neverbeast"....for the
third consecutive time that I visited her! It is her new favorite movie for
sure. Allison told me the first time I sat down to watch it that I will cry.
She was right, it is sad at the end, but even though it is a good sad, it does
get to you. I teared up again on the third showing. I really love those Pixie
Hollow fairies - Tinkerbell, Fawn, Rosetta, Silvermist & the rest. I highly
recommend their movies if you ever get the chance.
After the movie & lunch
we headed outside to do bubbles. My sister had brought Charley some long,
skinny bubble wands with containers to match so we blew & waved bubbles for
quite some time. We took turns blowing or chasing them. I do so many simple
things with this little sweetie that really are awesome.
We walked to the front of
their house where we noticed that lots of weeds had sprouted up around a few
azaleas. Charley & I decided to pull the weeds. They came out easily since
we'd had some rain a few days before. At first, Charley just pulled them out
& dropped them. Once I showed her how to hang on to them then add them to
the pile on the walkway, she was totally into it. The girl was a weeding
machine!
After awhile I said,
"Okay, that's good. Let's go throw them away." Her response was,
"No, Gaga! We're not done yet!"
We continued pulling the
little buggers until I once more tried to end the chore only to be told yet
again, that there were more weeds to pull. When that little girl gets going,
she doesn't stop. Finally Charley decided we were done. There was a pretty big
pile of weeds to carry to the garbage can. Charley insisted on carrying them
herself. I just followed along behind her picking up the ones that dropped.
Once that chore was done, we
wandered around their property deciding what to do next. Charley came up with
the idea! She said, "Let's march!" & handed me a stick. We each
had a stick & she led the procession. She chanted, "Marching,
marching. Here's the sun." Then I was directed to mimic her saying,
"Marching, marching. Here's the sun." She continued with
"Marching, marching. Here's the sky." Gaga copied her,
"Marching, marching. Here's the sky."
We must have done that song
to 20 things or more......."Marching, marching. Here's the clouds."
And the trees. And the leaves. And the pine cones. And the grass. And the
rocks. And the pine needles. On & on....we stomped around the house about
three times doing our marching chant. She kept finding more things to add to
the song.
Following that we poked
sticks in some yucky sap on the trees that looked an awful lot like snot. We
both crinkled up our noses & said, "Ewww!" In "Tinkerbell
& the Legend of the Neverbeast", the beast, Gruff, uses his goopy
saliva to stick rocks together building towers. We decided that the sap sure
seemed a lot like Gruff's sticky spit.
