What's Your Name?

Since we moved we have been hopping around from church to church, still looking for a place to call home. This suits our little social butterfly just fine. Each new nursery or Sunday School class we take her to is a new chance for her to throw us out of the room. She loves this.

While we embark on this journey, we are trying to take the opportunity to teach our little pumpkin the "polite" way to address and speak to adults. She will chatter anyone who will stand still to their grave, but sometimes it happens much like a drive by shooting. She speaks rather well for her age, so she doesn't understand why people can't understand her spewing out a paragraph at top speed as she runs past.

Part of the etiquette she clearly needs to learn is to stand still and slow down. Since her mouth is generally about four feet away from the receiving ear, we've also been working on looking way up as she speaks. She's picking all this up pretty well, and she LOVES to talk to anyone who will listen, so we thought, hey-why not add a few conversation starters in there while we're at it. I mean, how cool is a two-year-old who can say "so, Mr. Jones, what do you do for a living?"

She constantly asks me "Who's that?", so I thought an age appropriate conversation skill would be to ask someone their name. I thought we had this down tonight at home group when some new people came and she walked right up to a college boy and said, "Hey! What's your name?" He answered accordingly and she came back with "I'm Gracie. I'm two and I have a pretty dress on."

Is she hitting on a college kid!? Lord!

A while later, she finally moved on to a little boy her own age (phew) and that we actually already know. I can't expect her to get it all right so soon:

"HEY! Elijah! What's YOUR name?!" Daddy found this quite hilarious.