Weekends with Willow

This weekend I spent most of my time with my three year old future, surrogate niece.  She is my brothers girlfriends daughter.  She is 40 pounds of pure innocence (not) and laughter rolled into one.  Here's five of the things I remember from her this weekend:

1.While shopping in a store looking through jewlery she hands me a necklace and tells me that "Mommy neeeeeeeds this."

Now, my brother practically shits himself every time someone brings up the words "ring", "wedding", "engagement", or "wife" so the fact that she picked out this very neckalce had me rolling with laughter.

2.  We are walking around the mall and she's focused on not stepping on any cracks because "that'll hurt mommy" and she's rambling about what we are all going to be for Halloween.  The list goes as follows:
Mommy- A beautiful butterfly, next year shes going to be a witch just like me though
Daddy- Well Travis is going to be a racecar driver, a slow one, with a yellow outfit
Papa- A pirate, with two legs though and no thingy over his eye
Mama Judy- a ghost, with blue eyes
Me- a cook, to either cook bacon or do baking, I couldnt really tell, she was mumbling.  But most likely the bacon one because she's a ham.
And little Willow herself is going to be a witch.  A mean one that kills us all, one that goes "oooooooooooooooo" in a little ghost voice.
Even hours later, she could tell me exactly what it was we were all going to be.

3.  We are at Walmart getting the promised movie because she's not mine and I can spoil her and she stops in the middle of the isle and just points with a big smile on her face.  I asked her if she likes what it is that she is pointing at and she tells me that "Papa needs this at the house!  But he needs to bring his big truck to get it because it wont fit in your car Amanda.  Call him and make him come!"

(SN: papa agreed that he needed it in the front of the house)

 

4. She's watching Shrek on papas laptop on the couch, I have the big tv on in front of her and I am reading on my ipad and she looks at me with utter disgust and says "you're wastin 'lectricity with that big tv on, turn it off."  I told her that its papa's house and its okay to have two on at the same time.  She looks at me and says "I saiiiiiid turn. it. off."  Needless to say I did.

 

5.  "I'm bigger than you."  As shes standing on the couch while I am sitting.  "But I'm never gonna grow up, just be big enough to ride the ambulance ride at the fair and that 's it."

 

And I cant forget when she melted my heart a little bit when she cuddled up to me and whispered "I love you".

 

She's not blood, but she might as well be, besides when has that ever stopped anyone from loving someone?