Games

One of Grace's favorite games (right after "Baby-Dolly-Picnic") is playing short-order cook. Usually we play this outside, and at Bartlett park there is a special covered table where we always play it. She'll say "what you want, Mama?" and I'll answer "lemonade". She'll run to the call station (I need to get a photo of it) and yell out "Mama want lemonade!" and then bring me a stick or a rock. This goes on and on, with me trying to think of new items. Yesterday I asked for cherries, but the response was "No, I don't have them. Cherries only in Summertime."

One, two, three, four: Mary at the cottage door.
Five, six, seven, eight: Eating cherries off a plate.

This little rhyme is from Lavender's Blue, a lovely collection. Grace fixated on the drawing when I first read it, asking, "what dat?" and "Gayce want some! Gayce don't have any." I had to explain that cherries are only to be had in the summer (when the carousel opens, and when she gets to be a flower-girl; these are her reference points for something in the distant future).

I saw the recommendation for this particular collection of nursery rhymes off of the Ambleside website. I found it on Amazon from a seller who ships from England (I'm picturing some place right on Charring Cross Roard!) and it's lovely.
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