Oh, my baby girl makes us laugh.  Her antics send me into a puddle of giggles at least once a day.  Last night, we put her down to bed and about 20 minutes later went to check on her.  She had the lights on and was sitting in the corner, stuffing a backpack full of doll clothes, books and whatever other random stuff she could find at 9:00 p.m.  When Steve put her back in bed, she was crushed and sobbing.  She choked out "But, but, but, I NEED my backpack."  and then fell promptly asleep.  Her fashion sense is ummmm, unique.  Let's just say she has the layering look developed to a fine art.  It's like Bag Lady Haute Couture.  Her prayers at the dinner table are heartfelt and hilarious.  "Thank you God for all the cousins in the world and for our fridgerator and all the things in my heart!"  But, the thing that sends both Steve & I over the edge is when she mixes up words, replacing words that she hears that are a bit out of her vocabulary range with words that sound like the misunderstood word, but make absolutely no sense.  When she does that, Steve & I usually resort to laughing so hard that we snort.  Do you snort when you laugh? No?  Well, we're snorters in this house...it's like when you giggle and laugh and chuckle all at the same time and there's so much laughter bubbling up inside of you that it can't all come out of your mouth...some just eruprts through your nose and since your nose doesn't exactly have vocal cords and can only make limited sounds, the nose laughter sounds like a snort.  Hey, do you remember that song about laughing from Mary Poppins.....I love to laugh, long and loud and clear...Some people laugh through their noses,Sounding something like this "Mmm...", Some people laugh through their teeth goodness sake, Hissing and fizzing like snakes.....I love that song (and the movie)

Anyway, Steve and Abigail went to run a few errands yesterday afternoon and when they got back, Steve was laughing so hard he was snorting.  I asked him what happened.  He said she was singing and messed the lyrics up  in a hysterical way. 

Let me give you a little bit of a background story (and it will help me fill in one of the gaps in my blogging from the fall). 

In November, the Children's Choir at our church performed for the first time.  Both of our girls were up there, pleased as punch to be singing their hearts out.  I thought Abigail might be a little nervous, but once she realized that her big sister was there with her, she sang and sang and sang.  Loudly!  The song had hand motions and she did those, too.  Emphatically!  I was so proud of both of them!  The whole choir did a wonderful job...I'm so excited to see them sing again at Easter.  The song that they sang is called Every Move I Make and the lyrics go like this:


Every move I make, I make in You
You make me move Jesus

Every breath I take, I breathe in You

Every step I take, I take in You

You are my way Jesus

Every breath I take, I breathe in You

Waves of mercy, waves of grace

Everywhere I look, I see your face

Your love has captured me

Oh my God, this love

How can it be?


Since November, Abigail has been known to break out in this song at the most random times.  She just loves to sing it.  Mostly, she just repeats the words, Waves of Mercy, waves of grace and the refrain part that goes "na, na, na, na na na, na na, na, na na na"  Yesterday, though, she sang more of the words and that was what had Steve laughing so hard.

Sitting in the back seat of Steve's car, she belted out, "Waves of mercy, waves of grace, Everywhere I look, I see your face, Your love has SCRATCHED MY KNEE!  na, na, na, na na na!  na, na, na, na na na!"

When Steve told me what she'd done, I laughed with him and then I went and found my baby, gave her kiss, and told her that she fills our world with joy (and scratched knees!  )