You asked for it!

Listed below are a few details about Magnolia's current work:

• "HAND, HAND, HAND!" She can't go anywhere not holding onto one of our hands. I wondered where this came from, until I dropped her off at school and her friend Kamlin came up to her and said "Maggie Moo! Hand!" She reached out for Maggie's hand, Maggie placed her little hand in Kamlin's and they happily walked over to the baby doll area.
• All about books! She's always loved books, but not THIS MUCH. We are reading all the time. Usually she's asking for my hand then walking me over to her books so she can pick out one for me to read. We've been checking out lots of books from the library to feed into this extreme interest in books!
• "BOOOOOOOSTIIIIIIIIIIIN!" Gosh, do Zac and I really sound like that??!! One of her new, and very important roles, is reprimanding her dog. She shouts out for B with this unbelievably serious tone of voice for a 17 month old, then slaps her hand on her thigh. Usually Boston doesn't come, so she huffs, then marches off to find that DOG!
• When she's not yelling at poor B, she's making sure Boston is well fed. This means: 1. She notices Boston's bowl is empty and says "help" then points to Boston's container of food 2. Takes off the lid 3. Scoops some of the food into a small cup 4. Pours that food into Boston's bowl 5. Repeat, repeat, repeat 6. Says "all done" 7. Puts the scoop back into the container and then places the lid back onto the container (she does this completely independently people)
• Screeching, and I mean ear piercing screeches of delight when she sees her school. Then she shouts "SCHOOL!" followed by listing all her friends names. (special note: if I list her friends names and miss one, Maggie can always tell me who I missed. There are 12 children!)

Of course there is so much more, but that's a good bit for tonight!

I sincerely apologize for my busy schedule, and promise to keep posting away as frequently as I've done the last 17 months! I now have the added perk of 4 hours of furlough leave every other Friday (a bit of sarcasm for those of you who didn't catch that), so I may actually have some time to get caught up on just about everything.