Conversations with Lucy

Second (?) installment

Grandma has been visiting for the past week, so things have been rather exciting for Lucy with an extra person around every day to entertain (and be entertained by) her. She enjoys spending time recounting past glories, such as Halloween ("I wear Carter costume!") and trick-or-treating ("I saw Curious George. He scared me." [true story]) and, more recently, the holiday parade downtown ("Kids gave me candy!"). This is great fun.

This evening at dinner, we were talking about an upcoming wedding we're attending in January, and Lucy, hearing the word "wedding" assumed (reasonably) that we were talking about the wedding we just went to a few weeks ago. "I go Christy's house!" she gleefully announced. To simplify the matter of where we were going for the wedding of Christy and Eric, we just told her we were going to Christy's house, so I believe that it's possible that at this point, Lucy believes that the whole of the church and reception hall where Christy & Eric were married, and perhaps even the hotel where we stayed, are "Christy's House." Sweet! Nice diggs, Christy.

Anyway, to get to the best part of the conversation, we asked Lucy if she remembered what she did at Christy and Eric's wedding. Here's a fairly accurate transcription of the rest:
Lucy: "I played!"
Me: "Did you dance?"
Lucy: "Yes!"
Me: "Who did you dance with?"
Lucy: "A little boy."
Me: "That's right!"
Lucy: "His name Nathan."
[It is true that his name is Nathan, but I really had no idea that she even knew his name, let alone that she would remember it three weeks later. We were all very surprised by her detailed information!]
Me: "Yes, that was Nathan. Nathan Laub. Those Laubs are good eggs."
Lucy [immediately]: "Good eggs come from chickens."

OK, so I really don't know why I said they were "good eggs"; though of course they ARE, it was a funny thing to say. But her response cracked me up. Like an egg. A good one.

So thanks again, Christy & Eric, for a super-fun time. I think there are some images on Flickr that show just how much fun Lucy had. And Nathan, you're on notice: you have an admirer!