a different world

Mia's vocabulary is through the roof! The other day she 'clambered' into the bed with me, 'scurried' to breakfast...and told me: " 'I love you, Kanga', said Piglet to Kanga, giving her a cuddle..."

All day long she gives you (or anyone listening) an account of all her actions and intentions, and it's relentless. Adjectives and adverbs abound! Hooray!

When turning down to come to our place, you pass this revolting building with 3 (pointless) 'towers' on it - I can't believe it was ever passed in the planning stages. I hate it, I think it's a blight on the landscape! Anyway, when driving past, Mia pointed out the 3 towers as 'the 3 robbers' and it didn't take long to see the connection between them and the characters (the three robbers) in the book by Tomi Ungerer. It's a book about three robbers who transform into semi-respectable people. They rob carriages and one night they make a mistake, stopping a carriage that had only one passenger: an orphan named Tiffany -instead of a carriage full of rich people with money or jewellery. Since the robbers don't know what else to do they take her home to their hide-out where she asks them what they plan to do with their wealth. Realising that they are doing nothing with their horded wealth, they decide to buy a castle and bring to it all the `lost, unhappy, and abandoned children they can find.' These children grow up and marry, but as a testament to their benefactors BUILD THREE TOWERS. Now that I see this building as the three robbers, I don't mind it. Thank goodness!

The redwood forest in Rotorua is actually the 'Hundred Acre Wood' where Pooh and Piglet and all the others live - a short stroll to visit Mia in her Rotorua house. Today we drove past on our way to the Blue Lake and Piglet and Pooh et al all joined us - Mia was 'exclaiming' there's Pooh and Piglet in front of us! They've come to see us! I had to hurry to let her out of the car so she could join them.

I wish I could see through her eyes just for one day.