Conversations with Madison

I had an interesting conversation with Madison tonight. Let me set it up... It was about 8:15 and I had already put Eliott in bed. Matt was hunting so it was just Madison and I in a quiet house sitting at the kitchen table frosting and eating a sugar cookie. When it was time to eat them, she asked if she could have some of mine. I told her that if she was going to have a bite of mine, she had to give me a bit of hers. We had this same conversation last night, where she wasn't quite so sure about this, but tonight it was a yes. So, I took a little bite out of her cookie and then handed her mine. She took it and took a bit and then proceeded to shove the rest of the cookie in her mouth. It was as if she couldn't help it. When she realized that I no longer had a cookie sitting in front of me, she took a tiny little slobbery bite from her mouth and handed it to me. I took it and ate it. She asked me "What happened, Mom?". I told her that she ate my cookie and now I didn't have a cookie left. I was really interested in how she was going to handle this because I could totally tell she felt bad about what just happened. She asked me the same question and I told her the same response about ten times (no exaggeration). Finally she told me, "Mom, you can have have more later." This comes out of Madison's mouth as "Mom, ooo can have mowe yater". I told her that there wasn't any more. Keep in mind she has about 4/5 of her cookie left on the table. She sat for a long time just staring and thinking. We had borrowed the cookie cutters from Ayden's house, which prompted her next idea. "Mom, you can have more at Ayden's house". I told her that Ayden didn't have any at his house. She sat for awhile longer, then looked at me in the sweetest little voice and said, "Mom, you can have mine"... which came out sounding like, "Mom, ooo can have mime". I was over-joyed at her thoughtfulness to give up her cookie. Then she proceeded to pick off the tiniest crumb and hand it to me. I asked her if that was all I get. So she picked off two tiny crumbs and handed them to me. I took them and said thank you. She sat there awhile longer and said, "Mom, you can have a big bite of my cookie"... sounding like, "Mom, ooo can have a bib bite of my tootie". She handed me the cookie and I took a 'big' bite. She has such a sweet heart. Then she told me that I could get more at the store tomorrow... :).