oh that baby!

little bee has an imaginary friend, her name is baby. baby has been around for probably a year now. baby is all things to all people and situations. sometimes she is a teenager, sometimes she's three, sometimes seven or eight. sometimes baby experiences exactly what bee is experiencing, which is nice for working out our feelings. for example, last weekend baby's mom went on a trip. but don't worry, baby wasn't going to miss her too much, and baby knew that her mommy would be home soon. 

alternately, quite often baby is living a life that is much greater than ours, in many ways. if we have two cats, then baby has a cat farm. if the easter bunny hid 12 eggs in our living room, baby found a hundred in her living room. and so on. it is very predictable and makes us laugh ever time baby one-ups us.

over the weekend we were out enjoying some burritos as a family when the topic of smoking came up. bee said something about cigarettes and we launched into the speech: "cigarettes and VERY bad. they are so bad for your body. the WILL make you so sick and you should never ever smoke them."

little bee responded with, "well, baby smokes cigarettes. she smokes cigarettes ALL THE TIME! she blows on them all day!"

i'm sure, knowing baby, that when she gets lung cancer, it will be the worst lung cancer with the BIGGEST tumor ever!