So, I had a nice mother’s day. Matt and Ella made me breakfast in bed, then I had a hour long gab fest with my family. I MAY have gotten a little diva-ish. We went to the art museum for a mother’s day family time event. It was all about Tibetan Monks. We made pictures with the monks, heard the Monks sing, made prayer flags etc. It was neat-o, besides the facts a day with monks doesn’t exactly scream honor your mother with the whole male society thing….  Anyways, this little pretext is all for this story:

Ella has imaginary friends, specifically babies of all sorts. Human babies, baby ponies, Clifford the dog babies, and monster babies. Matt ‘held’ one of her monster babies all the way to the museum.

At the musuem we were sitting drawing pictures of the monk’s important symbols and Matt and Ella decided to draw whatever they wanted. Matt drew Monster babies and Ella drew a Monster dad. A woman came roaming around talking to all the little kids. She came over to Ella and ask her name and what she was drawing. Ella answered, “Monster Daddy” and then Matt tried to explain what the heck she was talking about. Anywho, the woman looked a bit confused but was nice and walked away and went on to talk to other kids. In the meantime, Ella picks up a red crayon and starts drawing all over the Monster Daddy. The woman comes back by and asks Ella more about her picture. Ella replies, “That’s blood. There is blood all over the Monster Daddy.” The woman pretty much gets weirded out big time. Matt and me kind of sat there staring at our pages because we are not sure what we should say. I bet the woman thought Ella was going to start repeating Redrum or spewing pea soup. Anyways, we didn’t say anything and she went on to other kids. After that Ella went on to draw and nice balloon but did the lady come back to see the perfectly normal thing Ella drew? No. Just the totally weird stuff. Did the lady know that Ella just learned about blood from a big cut on her toe. No.  She just saw Ella’s knowledge of blood in the form of a Monster Daddy bloodbath. It was super embarrassing.