Three generations

Well, I have been meaning to post this for some time now. For the the past couple of months (no kidding) the girls have been calling us all different things. What I mean by that is, Lizzy and Anna are always pretending things, usually dealing with mothers and babies. For a while, Anna was the mom and Lizzy was her baby, but then one day a couple months ago, that all changed. Lizzy is now the mama (and very often will only answer to such) and Anna is the baby, and acts well her part. They really do go around calling each other mama and baby. Mama will command the baby to do such things as cry, goo and gah, and poop in her diaper (thank heavens Anna just pretends on this one). Well this alone is enough to drive a real mother crazy sometimes, but now this little role play includes the whole family, ALL THE TIME!! I am now known as Grandama. Greg is Grandpa. Ben is Uncle Ben (Greg's wonderful contribution), and poor Adam is boy, pronounced BOY!! (Such as in the sentence, "Stop that BOY!!"). It is often confused who is the mom. One child says, "Mom said,.....". Which mom? Grandma or mom? It is also quite amusing sometimes. "Lizzy come here and let me change your diaper." "I'm not Lizzy, I'm Mommy." "Ok mommy, come here and let grandma change your diaper."

Another funny thing happened the other day because of this, but semi unrelated. Lizzy was talking about grandpa, and I said "you mean Papa?" "No, grandpa." "A real grandpa, or the pretend grandpa?" "Real grandpa." "You mean hairy grandpa?" "Yes", she says, "what does he look like?" I reply with "oh, he has glasses and a beard." Then, with the sincerity of a two year old figuring out the world, she asks, "Does he have fingers and toes?" "Yes, Liz, he has fingers and toes!" I said, not trying to supress my laugh.

She is just a crack up and always keeps this three generation household on its toes.