Lucy Anne's Safe Return

I picked up Lucy Anne Friday evening! I am so glad to have her home with us!!! We have had some wonderful, quality time over the past few days. I have enjoyed playing with her and talking to her. It's amazing how much her vocabulary has grown while she was gone. She has picked up and keeps picking up new sentences and phrases all of the time. Right now, my favorite is . . . "Papa's Pumpkin Patch". My dad has organized a pumpkin patch at their church which they set up while Lucy Anne was staying with them; so every time she sees a pumpkin she says "Papa's Pumpkin Patch". She is, by the way, in to assigning possession to everything and most of it is HER's! I have been so tired of hearing her say "MINE" that now when she asks me or says "MINE", I tell her, "No, that is God's and He is sharing with us". She has responded pretty well to it, I think. However, it confuses her a bit and then asks, "where is God". I told her things like, "God is in heaven" and "in your heart" . . . she looked at me insistently and said "God's at church". I agreed, thinking, I can't get much passed her. I am always amazed how much these little sponges know! Anyway, thanks mom and dad, for keeping her. She talks about her time with you a lot.