Stories from Morganland

Morgan has her own way of doing everything.  Two of my favorites are the way she prays and the way she reads stories. 

Every night when we sit down as a family to eat dinner, Morgan has to pray.  But before she can pray she has to look around the table at each person and make sure they have folded their hands and bowed their heads.  If you haven’t done this, she will stare you down and call your name repeatedly until you conform. (Maggie gets especially irritated when she calls her name.)  Once she has confirmed that you are in the correct praying formation, she begins. 

God is Great.  God is Good.  Let us spank Him for our food. 

(no that wasn’t a typo she actually says spank)  At first we thought this was funny and corrected her but she continues to do it.  She refuses to say thank Him.  It is certainly her prayer in her way.  And if she feels moved to pray again, we must all stop eating, get in the proper pray formation and pray again.  We have made it to praying as much as 7 times during one meal at which point we told her God was well thanked. 

Morgan loves to be read to and loves to sing.  Her favorite book is a book that someone gave Maggie when Maggie was 2.  It has a rabbit on the front cover and has several little stories like The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, etc.  Well one of Morgan’s favorites is Rain, Rain Go Away.  One day she was sitting in the rocking chair reading the book, when Josh and I heard her reading/singing the story.  The version we all know is Rain Rain Go Away Little Children Want to Play.  Well that is not the version Morgan shares with us in Morganland.  As she was happily singing the song, she said

Rain Rain Go Away Little Children Answer to Me. 

I can only assume she is making sure all the subjects in Morganland understand that she is indeed the queen!