Grinning

When I picked Lily up from school on Wednesday, she got in the car and handed me the proofs of her school picture. Notice the...well, I'd call it a grimace.

"I grinned," she said. Right, of course. Isabel always grins in photos. "So you were being like Isabel?" I asked.

"No," she replied. "I was being like Barbie. Barbie never shows her teeth." Lily and I have been reading her STEP INTO READING Barbie chapter books. At one point recently she read "Barbie grins" and asked me what that meant. I told her, and she said, "Like Isabel. She always grins." Exactly.

She really listens, my precious little pea.