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by Bernadine Sevy

A date with Miriam is always eye-opening.  Our 6^th child, and third daughter, accompanied me on a date tonight.  We went to Cold Stone Creamery and picked out our ice-creams.  It was fun watching her decide, flavor had nothing to do with it, she went for color, green with gummy bears.  I cringed, Mint ice-cream with gummy bears sounded disgusting but Miriam squealed with delight, the gummy bears were “cute”, so “teeny tiny”.   I love her sense of wonder.

She can talk the hind end off a donkey and her favorite game is “I spy”.  After we’d played “I spy” for a half hour or so, I decided to try and divert her.  This is how the conversation went:

Me  : Miriam, if you could wish for any one thing in the world, what would it be?

Without hesitation she answered.

Miri : A baby sister.

Me  : What if you got a baby brother instead?

Miri : Mom!  I love David and Jacob and Joseph and Caleb but he pulls my hair.

Me  : Honey, baby girls pull hair too.

Miri : Not like brothers, they pull out huge bunches.

Me  : Heavenly Father sends us what baby he thinks that we should have.

Miri  : (gesticulating) Mom!  Mom!  Listen!  All you have to do is go in the orchard and blow on a white thing.  You know those white things.

We went back and forth on this for awhile, because I had no idea what white thing she was talking about.  Then this slow mother finally got it...

Me  : Oh , you mean a dandelion!

Miri : Yes, a dandelion.  You have to blow on it and it will come true.

Miriam is constantly bringing me dandelions to blow on, now I know why..  She wishes and I blow and kaboom...we have a baby.  Miriam had some more advice.

Miri : And then Mom you have to stay away from Dad, or he will mess it up.

Me  : How’s that?

Miri : You remember before when you were going to have a girl baby, well Dad did it..

Me  : Did what?

Miri : I don’t know what he did but he did it and he changed it to a boy.   I want a girl baby.

So precious and precocious and hilarious.

A few weeks ago she announced to me that I either had to have a baby girl or adopt one.  She insists that I already have a tiny baby in my ball.  What ball?  I ask.

“You know!  When you eat lots of different color seeds you grow a ball in your tummy and then a baby can grow in there.  The ball is the same color as the seeds you eat.”

When we got home, she ran to her dresser and returned with lavender footed pajamas, about 12 month size.

  “See I have these for our baby girl.  I’m all ready.”

Johanna, our fourteen year old walked by as I grimaced, “I feel sorry for you Mom!”

The truth is that Jim and I have been talking about having our next baby and maybe Miriam knows something that we don’t yet know.  If she is half as adorable and as deep a thinker as Miriam then we will be happy.  Chances are, and with Miriam’s influence, we ain’t seen nothing yet!