Sweet Child

Dear Angela,

Just a note to tell you that I think Danijela is quite a sweet little girl. Aside from being just as cute as all get out, she is also very sweet and easy and fun to play with. She takes suggestions very well and you can reason with her -- well, at least I can, but then I'm not her mother. I think she has such an overall sweet nature and I enjoy interacting with her. She's also very entertaining. I wish you could be up here as a fly on the wall when she and I are talking and playing. You would be quite amused. Today I asked her if she ever gives her mommy a kiss on the cheek and I pointed to the place on my cheek where one would plant a kiss. She said yes, she does. Then I said, "Could you put a kiss on my cheek right here too?" No hesitation, I got a big smackaroo. How fun!

Also, I'm impressed at how plain she talks. Maybe I don't know just how plain a 3 yr. old should talk, but seems to me more than a few of the 3 yr. olds I've been around still don't say their words real plain. But Danijela talks very well! I really enjoy talking to her because I like to teach kids and see them learn. (Not that I have any special area that I want to teach her, I'm just talking about how I explain things to her in answer to her questions and she seems to understand, at least to some degree.) I've never really been able to relate to little boys very well. In my opinion they just flat out aren't as easy to bond with as little girls, and they always have to be up and doing -- always active and not content to be still and just enjoy your company. But then that's how God has made them and it's in preparation for their role when they're mature men. I guess what I've noticed in little boys and even with grown men, they simply aren't as relational as their female counterparts.

Well, enough philosophizing.

Abby