Chicken Plants

Dear Mackenzie,

I went on a moms' vacation last month (my first time traveling without Daddy or any of you kids in 13 years!!) and you were not happy about it. During the days leading up to my departure, you kept asking me to cancel my trip. On the morning of my flight, you were still sad and asking me to cancel but as I was walking out the door, you suddenly called out after me, "Don't forget to buy me a present!" Hahaha!

When I came back home a few days later, you were already asleep but you woke up in the middle of the night, ran to my room and asked, "Where's Mama?!" I was in bed so you jumped on top of me and hugged me so tightly! Later in the morning, I asked you what you wanted for breakfast and you replied, "Mama hugs!" You also told me, "I love you more than a 1000-feet-high building!" Kenziebear, you are so sweet!!! 

You are also so funny. Examples:

- "I've been waiting for ages!"

- "Guys, what is on your phone that is so interesting?"

- "Shoo! Shoo!" (when you see bugs)

- The way you annihilated an ant with your palm when you saw it crawling across the floor--it was the teeniest ant but you smacked it so hard that it probably turned to dust.

- "Mama, they had to evaporate from Florida. Because of the hurricane."

- When you drank water that had been in the fridge, you said, "It's so refreshing."

- When you tried my apple pie, you exclaimed, "It's perfect!"

- You asked me, "Is Taylor Swift real? Is she real in this world?" (You are still working out real people versus real people who portray other real people in shows versus real people who portray fictional people. It's very confusing, I know.)

- When I told you that we were going to make jello, you said, "I'm so happy!"

- When we were at Target, I said you could pick out a new outfit for your Barbies. You exclaimed, "I get to pick one?! For real life?!? I'm the luckiest girl in the whole world!!!"

- You also told me, "I'm a girl who is really hungry" when I told you that you were asking for too much food for lunch (you requested dumplings AND a ham and cheese sandwich).

- When I was whispering, you asked me, "Mama, why are you secreting?"

- I was cleaning up your room and said that if you helped me, I'd have more free time. You replied, "More free time? Got it!" and then started cleaning up your own things.

- You came out of my closet smelling very strongly of perfume. I asked you which one you'd put on and you told me, "All of them." Yikes.

- While we were walking home, we saw a flock of birds eating seeds and you said, "Let's keep walking so that we don't scare the birds and they can keep eating."

- When we were scrolling through Netflix trying to find something to watch, I said there was a movie called Migration. You exclaimed, "I want to watch Migration!" I joked, "It's about tax laws!" You shouted, "Ooooh!! Tax law--what??" 

- In Migration, there is a plot line where a chef is trying to kill the family of ducks. Thus, I explained to you that sometimes farmers kill animals like ducks and chickens and that chefs cook them. You replied, "I thought they planted chickens." Hahahaha!

Love,

Mom