A Girl After My Own (Bleeding) Heart

Pardon me while I record two of Maddie's priceless utterances for posterity. Please bear in mind that she won't be four until October.

+ Maddie was telling me about watching Julie play "The Sims" on our computer, and she said that "the lady in the red dress was kissing the lady that cleans the house," which I thought was memorable in its own right. But then she topped it by adding, "They are definitely married."

+ Last night while we were picking up dinner, she was sitting in her car seat doing her usual made-up monologue while looking through a book (she's only pretending to read right now, but she'll be reading on her own before too much longer), when I heard her suddenly exclaim, "There's a good Washington and a bad Washington. The bad Washington is the one with George Bush."

I swear on my grandmother's grave that both of these incidents are true. Makes a papa proud.