From the mind of Bella

The holidays are in full swing, and we've been out and about - we visited friends last night, saw the Macy's Nutcracker thing today, and had extended family over tonight. The kids are way out of whack with their bedtimes, going down well past 9 both nights, and we've got to get them back in sync sooner than later! Poor Isaac was a wreck tonight!

Anyway, Bella had two quotables today:

1) Bella spent the afternoon at Jenny's house making cookies. Family was coming in the evening, including Grandma and Grandpa. As I fetched Bella she had questions:

Bella: Why do I have to come home?
Daddo: Because Grandma and Grandpa are coming over.
Bella: Why are they coming over?
Daddo: They're bringing Taco fixings - we're having a Taco Party!
Bella: Well, I sure wouldn't want to miss THAT kind of party!

1) I took second shift in helping Bella go to sleep (quite wound up after the evening festivities that included more than a few rounds of Rock Band and Katamari Damacy with the cousins Ryan and David - Karen's nephews.) Here's what she wanted to let me know:

"Casey believes something that is completely wrong. He thinks that Pterodactyls are still real. But they're gone. Long gone. Can you believe that people dig up dinosaur bones? Imagine if they could dig up Pterodactyl bones - boy, you'd have to go way up in the mountains to find Pterodactyl bones...

"Who would want to fall up into space, anyway? I mean if gravity stopped working and we all started floating up into the sky. Not me. I would NOT want to fall up into space. But if gravity DID stop working, the Pterodactyls would be ok. Because they can fly. They could probably come save us."

"And a baby pterodactyl could help carry the baby humans... and the baby human could ride on the back of the baby pterodactyl. And if the baby pterodactyl got tired, it could ride on the back of mommy Pterodactyl. So you'd have a Pterodactyl, a baby Pterodactyl, a baby, and so on all the way up, and on the very top would be a single grain of salt.

"A grain of salt is so small, i bet you can't even SEE it. I wonder what it looks like up close?"

With that, she fell asleep.