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It's been awhile since I posted Violet's latest adorable sayings. Here are a few.

1) On the 4th of July, Violet saw our dentist, Dr. Brown (an African American woman) running in the 10K. Later that day she said, I wish I were black so that I could have a black baby and then I would name it Dr. Brown and it could grow up and be a doctor.

2) The other night, I was having trouble putting Violet to bed. She kept getting out. I lowered her all the way down to the red. (We have a chart with color levels. She has to be on Violet at night, (the best color of course) to have privileges the next day. I lowered her right down to the red and she didn't even care. That is when I know that we are in a power struggle and fighting won't help and taking away stuff she loves won't phase her a bit. So I stopped, I took a few more deep breaths, and said, "Stand up here on your bed. Take deep breaths. Now, tell me what you are feeling." Violet said through sobs, "I'm ...feeling...sadness in my heart." (It was so sweet I wanted to cry, but so funny, I wanted to laugh.) But I remained calm and said, "Why do you have sadness in your heart?" She said, "Because I can't sleep in your bed. I want to sleep in your bed FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER." And I said, "What about when you get married? Will your husband sleep in our bed, too?" She laughed. "And what if you have kids? Will they all sleep in my bed?!!! That will be too many people!! I"m going to get kicked in the head!!" She laughed and calmed down. I then told her she could be back up on the purple if she didn't get out of bed again. She did it!

3) About a month or so ago Violet said,"You're not my real mommie. I didn't come out of your uterus!" A couple of days later she said, "I didn't come from your uterus, I came from China." Now I've heard of adopted kids not claiming their adopted parents just to push their buttons. But, I've never heard of a biological child claiming to be adopted in order to hurt their parents feelings. Leave it to Violet!!!

4) One night in May, we were all sitting out by our camp fire in the back yard. John had just mowed and commented that my garden really looked great. Violet said, "Anne's garden looks better!"
First of all, "Who are you?" Second of all, "We haven't even been to Anne's house this spring so you don't even know what her garden looks like."
You little punk.

5) The other day, John was attempting to give Violet a time out because she was being a grump. John said, "What's going on? Why are you acting out?" Violet replied, "I just want to be free. I just want to do what I want to do."

6) Violet has been practicing some stand up comedy. I can't even write it down, it's just absurd. But, it is really, really funny.

7) The other day, I was on the phone with mom and Violet built a shrine to her brothers. She took a Catholic virgin Mary candle and a silver Buddhist lotus and her Haiti box and stacked them up. I she then propped her chair up in front of it. I heard her singing, "Erickson, Erickson, we love you. Lovekender, Lovekender, we miss you." She reapeated it over and over like a chant and had her little hands in prayer position. ....that one did make me cry!