Nana's 6th sense!

Okay! This is what happened. As we were getting ready to leave the house this morning, Nana, our almost 4 years old daughter, insisted on taking her yellow giraffe umbrella with her. "But it's not raining, honey!" Ann told Nana. OK, maybe it wasn't SUNNY, but it sure wasn't raining! "Fine!"David replied. He sure gave that up quick! I guess it wasn't the battle he picked to fight so early in the morning. After all, it was going to be a less then 10 minutes walk from our apartment to Nana's school.

"Mama! Can we go to 7-11?" Nana asked. It's becoming quite a ritual now to stop by 7-11 on the way to school in the morning. We usually let Nana chose between bread, milk, juice, or if she is REALLY good that morning.... some kind of junk food. "What are you going to get today?" Ann asked. "You'll see when you get there!" That usually means it's going to be something filled with cream or coated with sugar.

"Mama, can I get this one?" Nana looked at Ann with these sweet, innocent, and big eyes of hers as she handed her choice of the day. BINGO! Cookies with strawberry jelly and cream. "Sure! Why not?" After all, Ann herself loves the nice buzz from taking the sugary sweets early in the morning.

"Hum... it looks like it's going to rain." Ann said to David while she was getting ready to leave, thinking it was just going to drizzle a little bit. Within 10 seconds while David stayed behind to pay at the counter. It looked like someone just blow a whole in the sky!!! It wasn't drizzling all right! The rain came down so hard that it took us less then a second to come to the conclusion that we weren't going to make without umbrellas. Not even to Nan's school, which was only 3 minutes away.

As David was AGAIN paying for the cheapy U.S 2.00 umbrellas at the counter , Nana looked at us with this glorious victory smile on her face while tightly holding her precious umbrella. "See? I told you so!" She must have been thinking.

While on the bus on the way to work, Ann couldn't help but notice that both David's and Ann's pants were soaking wet all the way up to the knees. "We should have taken the better umbrellas at home. They would have worked better." Ann thought to herself. "How did she know?!" Ann mumbled as she scratched her head trying to figure out. "I know some animals have instincts when something big is about to happen. But THIS??!"

"I guess Nana was the smartest of us!"David said. "Yeah.... I guess so." But I still don't think even Einstein could have known that!