Oh the Things Maylee Thinks...

Saying Maylee has an imagination is an understatement.  She not only comes up with things but remembers what she comes up with months later. Lately, most of Maylee's "stories" are about her schools and her teacher.  This started in June.  She doesn't go to a school (just Carol's house while we go to work) so I tell people that if she says anything about "her school or her teacher" then it is all make-believe.

Maylee's "Schools and Teacher"

Early this summer, Maylee started talking about her "purple school."  She used to just say that she has a purple school and kids go there.  Since then, she remembers what she has come up with and adds to the story.  First, she added that only girls go to that school and later she added that the buses that go to her school are pink.  In July, we were driving by my school and adjacent to my school is a condo building with black metal roof.  Maylee was watching out the window and announced, "Mom! There's my black school.  It has a diving board and big kids go to that school with me, boys and girls, and we go to diving lessons and my teacher teaches us how to dive..."  In August, she spent some time in Moscow with her grandparents and when my mom drove by Theophilus Tower, Maylee told her that was her "red school" and "it has an elevator."  In October, Kevin, Maylee and I were in the car doing errands and the song 5-1-5-0 by Dierks Bentley came on the radio.  Maylee loves this song so she excitedly exclaimed, "I love this song! Did you know that the pink buses that go to my purple school play this song?"  Seriously!?!  After I gave birth to Kaleah, she has added on to her imagination schools and now says "My teacher is going to have a boy baby.  His name is George-Up."  She often connects with whatever we are talking about or doing to her school or teacher.  Like having the same crafting supplies I am working with in her classroom too. Or, when Kevin was sharing a hunting story with his friend, she pipes up and shares how her teacher got an elk.  I can't believe she remembers the details she has already made up and continues to add on to them.  So far, she hasn't given a name to her teacher.

Just another moment playing...
(High heels, ladybug costume, cat ears, headband, pom-poms in the background, cars in her hands...not really sure what she was thinking but she was having a great time!)

Memory Shocker!

Maylee continues to impress us with her memory.  While she spent time in Moscow between the version procedure at the hospital and Kaleah's birth  Maylee was in the car with my mom and they drove by a park. Maylee said, "That's the park where we took Charlie and Tessa and we met your friends Ammie!"  This shocked us, because that day at the park was the summer of 2011, when she was only one (21 months old)!

Her Taste Buds

 This summer she asked for salsa on her ice cream, which I said she could have ice cream in one bowl and salsa with chips in a different bowl.  A few weekends ago, Kevin was making us sandwiches for lunch.  He asked Maylee if she wanted a peanut butter and jelly or meat and cheese sandwich.  She picked peanut butter and jelly.  About three minutes later when she sees Kevin get the pesto out of the refrigerator she asked if he could put pesto on her sandwich too.  We both said "No" at the same time.  Pesto is her new favorite "dip-dip" and she BEGS for artichoke hearts about every meal.  She is definitely her father's daughter.

Silly Maylee