Tonight I was invited to dinner at the home of Chris and Jennifer, some friends from church. This meant that I also got to spend some time with their daughter, Eliana, who is three years old and has recently turned whatever speech development corner it is that takes kids from speaking in choppy sentences to expressing complex ideas and participating in conversation really easily. In other words, while Eliana has never been boring, it has recently gotten really fun to talk to her, because she says hilarious things.

Eliana's family is kind enough to pray for Baby Kate and us every day and has been doing so for the last few months. So Eliana has become quite interested in Kate, as a topic, and was telling me a lot of things about her tonight while she sat in an armchair with me and patted my stomach, where she knows the baby is located. Some of Eliana's predictions are as follows:

"Baby Kate is pretty."
"Baby Kate will be such a happy baby!"
"She will have brown eyes and brown hair."
"It will be cold when she gets here because the sun won't be out because it will be cloudy."

But my personal favorite was her answer when her mom asked her to predict how many hours it would take Baby Kate to get here once it was time for her to come. Eliana thought about it really hard and pronounced that I will be in labor for a grand total of six hours.

If she turns out to be right about that, I am going to get her her own 1-800 number and give Miss Cleo a run for her money.