Noelle Notes Sequel

NOELLE

Unusually, Rusty, my oldest, stopped by with only one of his kids, Noelle.  Usually all of the grandkids vie to ride to GrammyPam's.  Noelle's 4 years old and quite articulate.  She be-bopped into the open garage door and proceeded to indulge in play with the red basket of rubber duckies.  

She's learned from Miss Lilly, her cousin, to pretend they are Halloween ducks because two of them wear jack o-lantern cut-out pumpkins, one is a doctor, one's a pilot, one's a pirate, one's a red striped sailor, and another is a baby wearing a diaper, never-mind the green, and pink ducks.

Today she pulled out a larger one that was purple with wings and announced, "Fairy Duck!"

Paying more attention to my task at hand than listening to her, I asked, "Fairy Duck?"

Noelle raised it high in the sky and squealed, "SEE?"

I looked over while she continued talking, using such big words for a toddler, "It's fake, yah, it's a costume."  

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Like I said,Rusty came over with Noelle.  While he helped John on his truck, Noelle and I played rubber duckies, then we gathered firewood.  She?  ONE PIECE!  Then, it was chase the cat!  

Both...gone!

Isn't that the way?

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Noelle, 4 years old, had been playing with a Barbie doll.  She'd asked me earlier, "Could you brush her hair softly?"  

Such cute phrasing.

So, the one extra was Barbie.  I had to take her out of Noelle's hands to buckle Noelle in, but she was totally upset, so I buckled Barbie in, too, in the empty spot.  Noelle had to make sure.

"Did you buckle her?"  She twisted in her booster seat to make sure. She made a decree.

"Her good to go."

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Then, it was time for Noelle to go.  Before hugs and kisses goodbye, she quizzed me.

"Remember that night, GrammyPam, when we had  a sweep over?"

"And we did a puzzle on your phone -- the puppy?  Can we do a puzzle?"

In order to get her to go to sleep during that particular sleepover, I had claimed my phone was dying.  She evidently remembered because she continued asking questions.

"Did, is, your phone charged?"

And, I kid you not, she clasped her hands under her chin, tilted her head, and blinked her eyes, could Shirley Temple have looked so cute.

"Can we have a sweep over?"