What'd she say?

Yes, that seems to be the instant response around here to our wonderfully, preciously made middle child. Kindle can be as sweet as pie, rough as nails and everything in between. She has her own sense of humor, a keen sense of observation and a little mouth that believes she needs to spit it all at you, whether you are ready for it or not. Just a couple of examples for those of you who haven't heard her "latest Kindle moments". Her class recently learned about poison control at school, and the similarities between possible poisons and everyday items such as candy. Fast forward to dinner, when asked to please eat some of her black beans, she kindly replied in her most sweet, girly voice, "but I think they are poison", at which time daddy nearly choked on his food. After dinner, while daddy was playing "daddy beat down" with all three kids, he politely asked her to stop picking and eating her boogies (I know, totally disgusting) and she replied once again in her very sweet, innocent voice, "but I like the juicy ones". I really thought I was going to hurl at that one, and so did her dad who became speechless at her comment. Several months ago, while my sister was leaving our house and I was helping her to her car, Kindle began screaming our dog's name at the top of her lungs while hanging out our doorway. Our dog was completely ignoring her, which increased her volume even more. I thought she would give up and go inside, I should have known better. After several minutes I requested that she stop yelling the dog's name at which time she closed her lips and without a second thought or hesitation, she vocalized through her pursed lips, as loudly as she could, her attempt at our dog's name, with a closed mouth. I stood dumbfounded, and my sister began laughing hysterically. What is a parent to do? A couple weeks ago, I babysat for some friends of ours, and their third son, who is almost two, came into the house and began talking. Well, until this point, my kiddos hadn't heard him speak anything that they understood other than mommy and daddy. Kindle was ecstatic that he could speak and she said "mommy look, he can talk, and he speaks Spanish". I guess she didn't quite understand him still. A while back, Kindle and Levi began arguing, and I was in another room, which I knew was going to lead to someone crying and then "Mommy!!!!", which it did, however I wasn't prepared for Kindle to run into the room and tell me that Levi had hit her in her heart, where Jesus lives, and without stopping she turned to Levi and shouted "You hit Jesus!". I immediately turned my head so the kids wouldn't see me choking down the laughter so mommy could handle the heated battle. And just today, a close friend of mine took my sweet Kindle home with her so mommy could do some more work, and while visiting with them, their middle son stated that he was a boy "because, because, because, ....." and she decided to finish his statement with "because you have a penis." And he agreed "yes I do" and she said "but I don't" and he said "nope". And then the two kids dropped the subject and began talking about something else. Oh my, daddy is going to have a field day with this one. She has also moved off of her songs that she sings constantly about whatever she sees, like "trees in the water, trees in the water, trees in the water, going up now, going back down now," to bible songs, or should I say two lines from a bible song that she sings over and over and over, all day and night long, like "oh no, you never let go, oh no, you never let go, oh no you never let go". Sometimes Bubba literally puts his hands over his ears when we are in the car. Daddy was very excited to hear that she has just recently learned the next few lines of "oh no, you never let go, through the calm and through the storm, with every high and every low, Lord you never let go of meeeeeee." So cute! And last but not least, everything she needs to intensify with an adjective is "soakin". For example, one would say "you are soakin' wet", but Kindle says "this is soakin' fun" or "I am soakin' cold." Everything is "soakin" these days. These are just a few of our little Kindle's moments. I'll post more soon.