Are we there yet?!

We're heading to Moncton for March Break & Brenley's a little impatient. She asked when we left the driveway, "Are we there yet??" (She was thankfully joking!)

So by the Causeway we were looking for something to occupy her & shut her up, so we told her to make a tally of the deer we saw.

The pic shows her tally as of Truro ;) + a pic of Hannah Montana, of course!
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The birds & the bees, please...

While driving home from Sydney one day not too long ago, Miss Brenley decides:

Mamaidh, I think you should have another baby so I can have a little sister. Yeah, you should grow another baby in your belly & I'll name my new little baby sister, Rosie, like on Caillou.

(oh God)

Um, Brenley, you wouldn't know for sure if it was a baby brother or baby sister, though.

Well... anyway... I think you should have another baby... What do you have to do anyway? Like, eat lots of food so that your belly gets bigger and bigger?

Well... no, Brenley that's not quite the way it goes.

 (sings to the radio... loudly)

How does it work then, Mamaidh?

(explicative)

Um, Dadaidh puts a seed in Mamaidh's belly.

 (Note: I had already thought of how to address this when the time would come... and I got the idea from an article in a magazine... Today's Parent or something)

Her eyes grow BIG:

You mean, like when he's shopping for seeds for the garden he just gets a baby one... and what if he put a flower seed instead?!?! Could you grow a flower in your.....

(I switched the stereo to fiddle tunes & told her to whistle/jig along!!!)

Countdown...

You may want to know how badly this girl anticipates things. We're on constant countdowns here:

"How many more sleeps til....

1. ...Smare a makin' home videos?" -- that makes me laugh out loud whenever she says it. It's her version of saying 'America's Funniest Home Videos'
2. ... swimming?" She goes to swimming lessons every Saturday morning and has mastered swimming with the flutter board (even though she fell off it one day & nearly drowned; which she thought was cool?!?!), going down the slide, and even jumping off the diving board (I nearly die each time!).
3. ... Easter?" She was going to be able to take her stud earrings out on Easter,  but one of the backs fell off & went down the tub drain, so we've already moved on to "big girl earrings". However, the countdown is still on because then she'll be able to buy more earrings!!!
4. ... I go to school, Mamaidh?" I keep putting this one off. It's too many sleeps!!!!!!! So now we're gearing up simply for her start at Readiness to Learn, which is a 10 session half-day preschool program for rural area kids.

So, we're always counting sleeps here. In fact, she gets so excited sometimes that tonight after supper she asked,

"Is it tomorrow yet?"

Please don't wish your life away, girly!