love her

So, it is very obvious that we have started to call Miss Eden by both of her names, Eden Brooks. Sometime last spring, I just started to feel like Eden on its own wasn't quite right. I worried that someday she might decide she wanted to go by her middle name (like her daddy did in first grade when he decided to go by Doug, or like I did in first grade when I decided I only wanted Ashley not Laura Ashley).

So, at the end of this summer, Graham indulged me and agreed that we'd really try the double-name thing, even getting her teachers at school to use Eden Brooks. I have loved it.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when I was picking EB up from Sunday school and the nursery director stopped me in the hallway to say, "I have no idea how the comment was added in to Eden Brooks's name in the database, but it just printed out that way. No idea who added that comment." When I got EB and looked down at the name tag stuck to the front of her dress, this is what I saw ...

Such a lovely message to receive.

I also have an Eden in one of my classes at LSU this semester. When I asked her (of course I asked her), she said she'd always liked her name and thought of it just like Brittany of Tiffany - it seemed very common to her because she had always had it.

In other EB news, here's the hairdo she came up with, modeled after her friend Grace.

And, here's the new contraption I came up with to hep her  turn on the bathroom light on her own (mini-blind wand plus gold duct tape). EB called it fancy because of the gold duct tape.

Finally, her self portrait from school ...

On the way home from school last week, we had this little conversation ...

EB: Why is there tape on that roof?

Feeling tired, I replied, "I don't know."

EB: Weeeeell ... Can you explain to me one reason why you think it might be up there and how it works?

So, I did.

Love her name and love her.

- ashley