Love and marriage according to Teya Rigg

Teya has a little stuffed Elephant that she carries with her everywhere. She can't sleep without him, won't drive in the car without him, insist that I zip him up in her coat to keep him warm, makes me throw him in the drier if he so much as gets a drop of water on him because "he don't likes to be wet!"

Anyway, recently Teya has discovered the concept of marriage. She wanted to wear my wedding ring and I told her that she couldn't because it's my special ring that means I'm married to Daddy. Of course she wanted to know what that meant. So I said, "Well, when you really love someone with all your heart and want to spend forever with them then you go to the temple and get married."

It was a brief conversation and I didn't even think she would remember any of it until several days later when she walked in my room with elephant and said in her cute little 3 year old voice,
"Dis is my friend Elephy, he's my best friend and I'm gonna marry him."
"Really?" I replied
"Yeah, I'm gonna marry elephant and we going to get marry at the temple."

I couldn't believe she remembered what I told her about marriage and had a pretty decent grasp of it (well, besides the whole you can't marry an elephant or a stuffed animal thing) . I was impressed! Since then she constantly talks about Elephy and how they're married. She reached out her hand to me the other day and put my hand in hers and said, "there! now we're married because I love you so much!!" She's also informed me that she would like to marry Brinley and Daddy too. ; )
This picture is funny because we were at a restaurant and she looked like a total orphan child with her ratty hair, but she saw what she deemed to be a great background and said, "Oooo Mommy take my picture here!" So I did. Then she smashed Elephant up against the wall and said, "Take a picture of elephant too!" She really does love that thing.