Pig's Adventures...

Emma's favorite sleep toy is a guinea pig that she affectionately calls "pig". She has had pig since she was about a year old. Pig is a beanie baby that is very well loved which is evident by both her appearance and smell, but we just keep on washing her the best we can and hoping she survives Emma's attachment phase. About six months ago Emma began to tell stories that involved Pig, they were long drawn out sagas about Pig's life and adventures Pig had been on. Whatever was going on in our life, Pig was doing also. Pig was shopping at the mall or Pig had gone to the beach or Pig was having babies, birthday parties or sleepovers, etc. Emma can can tell the whole story without even thinking about what she needs to add and if you ask a question about Pig, Emma always has an answer right on the spot. I decided to write down Pig's latest adventure just so I could remember these great imaginative stories for later. This one unfolded while we were on our way to church the other night...

Emma: Guess where Pig went today Mommy.

Me: Where?

Emma: The Zoo

Me: really, What was her favorite animal?

Emma: All of them except one- the Lion. She had to feed it and it kept growling at her.

Me: Did it try to bite her?

Emma: Yes, but she had on these special gloves that were as hard as a rock so it couldn't hurt her, but she was scared so she went inside to look at the fish.

Me: That's good, I wouldn't want her to get eaten. Did she like the fish?

Emma: Yes, they let her touch some of them. One of the scorpions had babies and you could touch them, they didn't have their pinchers yet.

Me: Don't you mean lobsters?

Emma: No Mommy scorpions.

Me: Did they have stingers?

Emma: No, the big ones had rubber bands on their pincher claws so they couldn't hurt Pig, and she loved the babies so much that they let her take one home.

Me: that was nice.

Emma: Yeah she is going to put it in her 'quarium and let it eat blueberries and yummy fruit.

Me: I bet it will like that. Sounds like Pig had a great time.

Emma: Yes, she said that we really need to go to the zoo with her next time so we can see all those animals too.

Me: Maybe when the weather warms up, we can go.

Emma: O.K., that would be good, but I don't know about those mean lions.

I think this was Emma's creative way of asking to go to the Zoo, but I hope that we won't have to feed a lion. She is too funny:)

"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from Him." Psalm 127:3