More Conversations with Ada

First though, before I get to the conversations with Ada, here is a picture of the homemade strawberry banana muffins that I made this morning.  I had a couple of friends coming over to talk couponing while our children played, and I wanted to have a snack in case anyone was hungry.  I had a few very ripe bananas, so I found a recipe for banana muffins in a betty crocker cookbook.  I decided to cut up some fresh strawberries in hopes that John would love the muffins and would get in a serving or two of fruit for the day.

I loved the muffins, the other kids loved the muffins--Ada, Hannah, and Grant, in fact they ate two each, but John wouldn't even take one bite.  Not even one bite.  What in the world?  I almost used whole wheat flour, but I didn't since I was serving these to friends, and I wanted to make sure they tasted good and not too "wheat-like."  So, they were white flour, strawberry-banana muffins.  What's not to like?

He is a stinker to the core!!!!

Anyway...here is a picture to accompany Ada conversations.  This was her other pose from the other day.

(I know that my pictures are so bad.  They are all from my phone.  I am praying that a really nice camera will just drop out of the sky...I'll let you know if God answers that one.)

Scott pointed out on his blog that I never blog about Ada conversations anymore, so I am bringing them back.

 Okay, first conversation.  We were in the car today running some errands...

Ada:  "I wish we could paint our car pink."

Me:  "That is a fun idea..."

Ada:  "We could paint it pink and decorate it with carrots."

Me:  "With carrots?!"

Ada:  "Yeah, and then we could drive our pink, carrot car."

Me:  "That would be fun..."

Ada:  "Can we paint it pink today?"

She was 100% serious, and at that point, I had to break it to her that we were never going to be able to paint the car pink or decorate it with carrots(?!!!).

Conversation two...

Ada:  "I want to go see a dragon.  A shooting dragon."

Me:  "A shooting dragon?"

Ada:  "Like this," and she made a hissing noise.

Me:  "It shoots fire?" (a fire-breathing dragon, perhaps?)

Ada:  "Yes, and it's pink."

Me:  "Where do we go to see this?"

Ada, with absolute conviction: "At the zoo."

The other night, while the family was out running errands...

Ada:  "Mom, when is your stomach going to get big again?  I want a baby sister."  (As if I just randomly wake up one day with a big stomach, and that's how God gives us babies)

Me:  "You want me to have another baby?"

Ada:  "Yes, five baby girls."

Me:  "Wow, you want me to have lots of babies."

Ada:  "Yeah, I want you to go to the hospital.  I like the hospital because I like the elevators there." 

Obviously hospital elevators are a great reason to have five!!!! more babies.

Ada, looking at some of my stemware in my kitchen hutch.

Ada:  "are these new?"

Me:  "no"

Ada:  "are they special?"

Me:  "they are special."

Ada:  "who handed them to you?"

Me:  "they were a wedding gift."

Ada:  loud gasp..."for your birthday?!!"

Me:  "No, for getting married.  People give you gifts when you are getting married."

Ada:  thinking for a minute..."like rings?"

She's my funny, funny girl.  Really.  She makes me laugh everyday.