The Things They Say...

Back story...

There is a man in town who has a lawn service who sometimes, as a favor to us, will just stop by and cut our grass if he happens to be in the neighborhood. All-in-all, not a bad deal, but yesterday he showed up right in the middle of naptime for both girls. And woke them BOTH up. Katherine had been asleep longer, so for her, it was no big deal. She also wakes up more easily. Mary Joyce is like her mama. We both value our sleep, and heaven help the person who wakes us up. :-) Mary Joyce in the last few weeks has really started putting words together to form 2 year old sentences. (Nothing to do with sleep, but it figures into the story...)

Anyway, Mary Joyce was almost hysterical at being awakened by this loud noise. (Usually, things like this don't even wake her up, but not this time.) I held her in my lap in the rocker in her room while she was crying, the big sniffling, huffing, and puffing kind of crying. She looked at me and said very emphatically, "Mama! Dat go bye-bye!" In other words, "Make that thing go away!" I felt for her, but at the same time was pretty amused by her way of expressing herself. Too cute!

As an addendum to the story, after she got good and awake, she actually watched the rest of the yard work through the window--not scared at all.