What She Said

I continue to be amazed at what Mia pieces together in her mind. Lately, she has been asking us to read her 3 books about adoption. "I Love You Like Crazy Cakes" is about a woman who adopts from China. It has a scene showing a big room with lots of cribs. "Over the Moon" is about a couple that adopts from an unnamed far-away country. We also spend quite a bit of time looking at Mia's own lifebook. Last weekend, I saw Mia astride the back cushion of the loveseat in her playroom. (They told me loose cushions were a bad idea when you have kids, but I didn't listen...) Our dialogue went something like this:
Me: Mia, what are you doing up there?
Mia: I'm sailing across the sea.
Me: Sailing across the sea? Where are you going?
Mia: I'm going to China.
Me: What are you going to do when you get there?
Mia: I'm going to see the babies.

Mia is picking up lots of new words and phrases that I'd guess you could call slang. Last night, she was telling us about something that happened at school, but she was so excited and giggly, we couldn't tell what she was saying. Something about something being dirty or falling on the floor and getting dirty. Mia couldn't stop laughing long enough for us to make out what the story was. She kept repeating it, but all we could make out was the last few words, "It was nasty!" She apparently had decided that, "It was nasty!" is a very funny thing to say. Given that Jeff and I got caught up in the laughter, I guess she was right.