"One-a Time..."

Kallie has recently become a voracious reader. She's always enjoyed books in the past, mostly for their colorful illustrations. But, within the past month or two, she has started to better understand the story lines and reproduces them with great accuracy. She now starts stories and/or explanations of each page with "One-a time...," which means "Once upon a time" in Kalleese.

Sunday, during sacrament meeting, we pulled out the "Jesus Book" that Aunt Carissa made for Kallie in Young Women's a few months ago. It's very simple--just small pictures of Jesus throughout his life glued on cardstock, then laminated and spiral bound. As Kallie turned to each picture, she would say, "One-a time..." and then describe whatever was happening in the scene. When she turned to the picture of Jesus on the cross, she said, "One-a time, Jesus naked." And, at that moment, Ryan and I were glad that the nursery leaders, (who LOVE Kallie), were sitting right behind us...because they giggled right along with us.