Joy's first story

Joy loves for us to tell her stories (or secrets as they somehow got the name). It all started on our trip to Malaysia and we had an hour taxi ride. Joy was 16 months and we didn't bring a car seat...Brad kept telling her stories about tigers, dragons and a little girl named Joy to keep her sitting down.  Brad uses the same tactic for take off and landings on airplanes. We have branched out and we tell her the story of when she was born, when simon was born and when Rudy was born, when mommy and daddy got married and when daddy proposed to mommy. Her favorites are still "when Joy was born" and "Joy going on an adventure with the dragon" (our year of the dragon baby loves her dragons).

This morning at breakfast (we were eating eggs and she was told she couldn't feed the dog her eggs) she told us her first made up story. The girl has an imagination! P.S. A "Mattress cat" is the name of an animal she made up. My sister and brother in law have coasters with animals on them and Joy picked up on and said "oh it is a mattress cat" (in reality it was a fox...and she knows that animal so we are not sure what happened but it cracks us up!).

"One day there was a mattress cat. Joy dropped her egg on the floor and the mattress cat ate it all. He got away in the street and Joy chased him with her shoes on her feet. The mommy mattress cat got away, the daddy mattress cat got away too. They goed away to their home. They ate their food. They eat macaroni and cheese. They got on the shelf and knocked over the Russian ladies and runned away."