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Emily's Little Sister

Blueheart

Blueheart

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My youngest child turned 3 in February. I will call her Lilly here, which is a name we considered when she was born.

Emily is six and has recently lost her second tooth. Lilly, a few days after this event, started "wiggling" her own teeth, and asking us if they were ready to come out. We told her no, she had to be a bit older before that would happen. She accepted this explanation, and weeks passed . . . Until a few nights ago.

We were sitting on the couch watching TV, when Lilly "wiggled" one of her molars. Then she told me, "You've got to drink lemon juice and then the teeth stood up."

I asked her, "Have you ever had lemon juice?" (She has had lemonade, not lemon juice.) She said, "Yeah," but would not elaborate.

There is another possible trigger to this memory. About a week ago, Lilly saw me squeezing a lemon into my water and asked me about it.
 
Hmmm...Interesting comment. It's the little odd things like this that can be important clues later on. Keep us updated!
 
Another startling comment


I called Lilly. She got a blank look on her face, then said, "Lilly's a girl in my class when I was 16."
 
I hope this is ok . . .


When Emily and her older sister said these little things, I wrote them down and stuffed them in a chest, for later, when I could put them in some sort of order. Well, "later" has not happened yet. It looks like "Lilly" gets the forum instead of the chest. I hope that is ok? I realize it is not very readable this way, when there is so little context and I can not connect it to a presumed past life.


Anyways . . .


Last week Lilly used the phrase "from whence" in a sentence, correctly.


More than that, though, she meant "from whence". It was not, for instance, garbled speech of the word once, or something like that.
 
Blueheart said:
When Emily and her older sister said these little things, I wrote them down and stuffed them in a chest, for later, when I could put them in some sort of order. Well, "later" has not happened yet. It looks like "Lilly" gets the forum instead of the chest. I hope that is ok? I realize it is not very readable this way, when there is so little context and I can not connect it to a presumed past life.
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At least write the dates on the scraps of paper so it will be in some kind or order later. Later you can start a journal.
 
Mama2HRB said:
I posted much of our journey on here. Years later I came back and they were still here :)
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That reminds me, everyone here should be backing up threads they are interested in keeping. Go to the blue menu bar at the top of the thread and click on "Thread tools". You can choose a printer friendly view. If you have a program that can save or print to PDF format that is a good way to save threads. Then save on a usb flash drive or something similar. Keep it in a safe place. You can also choose to be notified by email whenever someone posts a reply in a thread. Saves from having to constantly check the forum website.
 
Overheard while scratching Lilly's back before bed:


"When I was older, I used to scratch Emily's back."
 
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We recently bought a French baguette and ate it at dinner. Lilly thought it was The. Best. Bread. Ever!


Given her earlier comment spoken in French, I wonder why we never thought to buy her some before?
 
This was in another thread . . .


When Lilly was two, one night the older girls asked to be excused from the dinner table. As they were leaving, she said to them, "Adieu."


Then, one afternoon we were decorating for a birthday party, and Lilly got really excited. My husband and I smiled at her, thinking that she was just then realizing what a birthday party is. We started to explain what we were doing and who's birthday it was, when she pointed to the banner and asked, "for la fette?"


I was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied, "Yes. For the party. For the fette." To which she started shouting something like, "Bouche dan la fette? La bouche dans la fette?" Or words to that effect. It certainly sounded French to me.
 
So then yesterday . . .


I received this text from my husband while I was at work:


Just out of Lilly's mouth while absentmindedly writing with her sisters. "I like this life. It's better. It's better than Mons." Mons is a Belgian city near the French border!
 
Blueheart said:
Just out of Lilly's mouth while absentmindedly writing with her sisters. "I like this life. It's better. It's better than Mons." Mons is a Belgian city near the French border!
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Have you tried asking her questions? Do you know anyone who speaks French? I wonder if she would understand if someone spoke to her in French? Is she old enough to take French lessons? Should be easy for her.


Since she was in Belgium I wonder if it was during a war?
 
Blueheart said:
...I was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied, "Yes. For the party. For the fette." To which she started shouting something like, "Bouche dan la fette? La bouche dans la fette?" Or words to that effect. It certainly sounded French to me.
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I'm thinking this means something like 'party food' - like little cakes and snacks for a party. Perhaps a French speaker could shed more light?
 
Once again Google to the rescue. Why not show these pictures to her and see what happens? See if she can name some of them. What was her favorite? If you find out what she likes maybe take her to a local French bakery and let her pick out some things to take home. Who knows, maybe she can order in French. Yum, makes me hungry just looking at all of these.


https://www.google.com/search?q=Bouche+dans+la+fete&client=aff-maxthon-maxthon4&sa=X&channel=t27&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=fK-XU4_xK9awoQTGy4CQBA&ved=0CBwQsAQ&biw=1002&bih=553
 
Lilly's French


Interesting! La fête means "the party". Bouche means "mouth" but there is also a "bûche de Noël" which is really a sort of yule log cake served during Christmas in France or French-speaking countries.
 
The French speaking happened almost two years ago, and has not been repeated. I was much more interested in why she was speaking French than in what she was saying.


I am really happy now because I feel like the mystery has been solved, and moreover, she likes it here with us. As a parent who often doubts that she is doing right by her kids, that makes me feel pretty good.


After this rather startling comment, my husband said he asked her, "Mons? Is that a place?" To which she mumbled, "um hum," looked up rather startled, and then had no idea what he was talking about.


That has been my experience, too. If you ask them a question, it is like they are suddenly awoken from a dream. Instantly, the dream is forgotten, as they are snapped back to the present. You have to have good ears to catch these things when they are "in the zone."


Interestingly, the next day Lilly showed me what she was drawing when she made the Mons comment. On one side of the paper, she was "writing" like her sisters. It looks like a bunch of scribbles and swirls. The other side of the paper, though, is a number of lines comprised of peaks and valleys going up and down, up and down. She took up the whole page, drawing zig zag after zig zag.


I asked her what it was a drawing of. She said, "the ocean." Given her earlier "scurvy" comment, I found this interesting too.
 
Now I'm beginning to understand why she thinks the current life is better than the previous one in Mons. Too bad she doesn't remember more.
 
Blueheart said:
I was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied, "Yes. For the party. For the fette." To which she started shouting something like, "Bouche dan la fette? La bouche dans la fette?" Or words to that effect. It certainly sounded French to me.
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Get her some French treats sometime. Eventhough she won't know why she likes them so much, you will.:laugh:
 
Eevee said:
Those peaks and valleys, could they be coal mines?
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Well, she said it was the ocean. But I'll keep it in mind. I have a feeling, though, that this life of hers was very long ago. Pre-industrial, certainly.


So, are there any traditions, habits, customs that make someone stand out as Belgian that I should be on the lookout for?


We will get her some little pastries soon!
 
Belgium as an independent country only exists since 1830. Before that it was part of the Netherlands, or Low Countries. Mons is located in Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium. But there certainly is no ocean nearby....:confused:


About Mons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons
 
This may be a stretch here, but about when Lilly came along, I started accumulating dragons. It is not a collection, exactly. They just go with my dining room which is looking more and more "castle-like" as the years wear on.


Anyway, apparently, Sir Gwain and the Dragon is a bit of a thing in Mons. And Lilly has always been attracted to dinosaurs, dragons, and lizards.
 
Blueheart said:
This may be a stretch here, but about when Lilly came along, I started accumulating dragons. It is not a collection, exactly. They just go with my dining room which is looking more and more "castle-like" as the years wear on.
Anyway, apparently, Sir Gwain and the Dragon is a bit of a thing in Mons. And Lilly has always been attracted to dinosaurs, dragons, and lizards.
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Interesting. Sounds like some kind of psychic communication going on between the two of you. Or maybe you are remembering a past life with her at that place?
 
A few weeks ago I was preparing Lilly for her first day of pre-school by explaining to her that her school will not be in the same place as her sister's school.


She said, "Will it be at my old school?"


Me: "Did you go to school before?"


Lilly: "Yes."


Me: "Where? What was it like?"


Lilly: "I don't remember."


After this, she started talking about "when the house gets all wobbly" so I asked her, "did the house just get all wobbly?" (We do, after all, live in an earthquake zone.) She said yes. But this was, for me, the interesting part. . .


She said, "The house did not really wiggle. It just feels like this." And then she wiggled and wove her fingers in front of her face.


So, I asked, "Did the house wiggle for you when you tried to remember your old school?"


Lilly answered, "Yes. But not really. Get it?"


And I think I did. She was trying to explain the feeling of what it is like just before or during past life recall. So, perhaps, the zig-zag lines make more sense now. And, to think, this thread all started with some "wiggling" teeth!
 
When trying to talk about her Holiday performance at school, Lilly used the word deportment!


Now, I KNOW that word was not used at school (some of those kids are still learning English as a second language) or at home, which begs the question, where did it come from?
 
From about a month ago, Lilly tried to explain to me what a mast, sail, and mainsail was. This info might have come from a cartoon, but still, how many four year old girls are interested in the parts of a ship? Noting it here, just in case . . .
 
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