From the mouths of babes

Consider this a late Stay Healthy Saturday post, laughter being the best thing to keep you young and healthy. Alanya was in prime form this week.

• About a year ago I had to have an abdominal hernia repaired, and at the time we explained it to 5 year old Alanya that mommy's tummy had gotten so big with all my babies that the doctor had to sew up a little hole that opened up. How else to explain it? Well apparently the other day my little angel walked up to a pregnant teacher at school and told her "My mommy's belly was so big and her three babies kicked so much that she had to go get a tummy tuck!"
• This week after taking a practice test with her spelling words, I wrote the correct spelling next to Alanya's where she had gotten one letter wrong in each word. When she realized her mistakes she said "Man! I was so close! I just misspelled them all!"
• And finally, yesterday out of the blue she said "Mom, even though I'm a righty, my lefty comes in handy a lot!"