and she can read.

fer real.

tara was holding her while we wandered through the movie aisles at hastings. when tara stopped, arbitrarily, magnolia leans out of her arms and reaches her little fingers over to the shelves full of movies. she points her little pointer and touches just one of the boxes. her little pointer finger has selected just one very special very significant movie ...

magnolia

i shit you not.

and, no, she was NOT named after that movie.

fer real.

so of course we all freaked out and told her she was a genius. she just smiled like, yeah, it's about time ya'll figured it out.

then aunt tara was trying to get mags to say hi to aunt julie. tara kept pointing to julie saying her name over and over for manoglia, who just stared with her drooly mouth hanging open.

"'julie' ... 'joolee' ... 'jooooleeeeee' ... can you say 'julie'?"

then, mag leans over sideways, out of tara's arms and points her little pointer finger at another movie box ...

a little-known film called Miss Julie.

i told you people, she's a genius.