If there's anything in the world better than a three-year-old girl, I don't know what it is. (SS)

Chicken and Rump

Mercy cooks a lot of pretend food for us in her room and a lot of her recipes involve “rump”. I honestly don’t know how she arrived at that term but I just go with it.

Mercy’s Chicken and Rump Recipe

“Sugar and cream and a little water and smashed French fries, then a little chicken you smashed up and then French fries and then that’s all, but you have to put a little more sugar in there, then two more cups of water and then we put sugar again and then we put ice cream but they all get smashed until they get to rump.”

Make sure you don't forget that last step or else you ain't got rump.

Thermospectral

Mercy having some fun with the ipad. She is such a little lady now. I suppose having an infant around makes everyone else seem larger and more grown up. I still have trouble not calling the baby Mercy instead of Haven. It's probably preaching to the choir but despite the complexity and work of expanding the family, it is amazing to have two little blessings.

Your Goat

Mercy's speech is remarkably clear, but she still has a few funny pronunciations that we don't want to correct because they're cute. And fleeting. I was so sad a couple months ago when she spontaneously stopped saying "lellow." Anyway, a favorite family activity is going out for frozen yogurt. Mercy has long pronounced it as "yor-gut." Recently she was talking too fast I guess, and it came out as "yor-goat." And that's what it shall be known as forevermore. (SS)

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Elephant poem

(Not sure where these poems come from but here are some candidates:

Dr. Seuss influence?

or maybe free association

or maybe an insight into Mercy's pretend grown-up language that has never really been captured on paper before...)

ELEPHANT POEM

Elephants love kids

But if the swim they'll get Hippos

And Mercy is the name

They're them will get Bippos

The with our in the shower with a hat and a mix

And a very bit mix

With they ear they will hear with the shower

In the elephants place the jungle

And the elephants are ever good with swimmy elephants

And the elephants may be lifened at you

I green with little binch of elephants

Inch the lie elephant's pippo

In baby elephants may be paste where to