Princess Mama

The other day, as I was playing with Eli in Grandpa and Grandma Koorndyk’s family room, Eli and I were looking at the covers of some of their VHS kids’ videos, I decided to try and play a little memory game with Eli.

I picked up the Shrek movie, turned it over to the back, and showed it to Eli.



I pointed to each of the characters on the back of the movie in turn, and told Eli, "This is Shrek, this is Princess Fiona, this is the dragon, this is the Donkey, and this is Prince Farquaad." (In case you're wondering – yes, I did have to look up the spelling of that last one for this blog post!)

Then, I pointed at the picture of Princess Fiona again, and asked Eli, “Who is this?” I was curious if Eli would remember and repeat the name I had just told him.

But Eli, with a big grin on his face, responded, “Mama!”

I thought that was so cute, and got a big laugh out of it. I’m not sure Eli realized what Daddy had found so funny, but he laughed along with me anyway. :-)