i keep thinking...

yesterday in the car we passed by a young girl who was taking her pony out for a walk on the sidewalk as if it was a puppy. as we passed by i said "that's a pony! it's little." i meant that it was little compared to a horse... but ella thought about it for a moment and then said with a chuckle in her voice "i keep thinking that it is very big! i do!" it made me laugh so hard, because i knew as i said it that ponies are only relatively little, and that to her it probably seems big, but i didn't know if she would catch me on it.

then she asked me to put on some of her music, and the first song that came on was "ride-oh, ride-oh, ride-oh, upon a horse astride-oh." and she said "i think this song is making me laugh!" and she laughed and laughed and laughed. then she told me that gloria was telling her jokes and she was laughing even more.

we stopped by the park on the way home. she said that gloria and ella and mrs. ella and thelma were all with us. i asked her how many girls there were now and she thought about it for a moment and said "five."

she sat upon a spin-y seat and was turning and turning, and then she said that gloria and ella were on the other spin-y seat. but then a little boy came over and climbed on the other spin-y seat and i could see her getting ready to protest and then she quickly "grabbed" ella and gloria off of the other spin-y seat and said they were now going to swing on the red swing. then when she wasn't looking a child came by and pushed the red swing and so i pointed to the empty red swing as it went back and forth and i said "see? the girls are swinging!" and she got such a happy look on her face.

today before her nap, we took a walk around the block in the sunshine. she said that she was holding gloria's and thelma's hands and that ella and her new mother and her old mother were also with us. i asked who i was and she said "mrs. bryn" and i said "okay, as long as your new mother and your old mother do all the dishes for me..." and she said that her "new father and old father are home cleaning the house" and i laughed and said that that works out great for me.

oh, if only.