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Two funny things over heard this morning:

When I was getting my son out of his crib, my almost 4-year-old daughter comes in and says, "Where's that little monkey boy? I see you monkey, good morning" LOL

Minutes later as I was making the duo breakfast, my son starts chanting "Juice, juice" I was in the process of getting it, but my daughter yells at him, "stop saying that to me, I can't get you juice Bugga! Its too hard for me! Mommy has to do it" I think she's insane....LOL

The Linguist

As all of you moms and dads know, a two year old is not the best, most fluid speaker in the world. They are struggling everyday to get words out and communicate...learning how to sound things out and the jibberish eventually becomes clear and understandable...well, that's where we are at with my son....He says a lot and being his mom, I can pretty much understand what he's trying to say...I get his 'speak'....My daughter, however, doesn't always get it....for instance....when he says daddy, sounds like 'day-ee'....when he says Delaney, sounds like 'day-ee'....very similar....pretty much the same....well, Delaney got really mad one morning and came running over to me, pointing at my little linguist, complaining, "MOM! He keeps calling me daddy!!!" LOL She was so mad!

When I say....

So I decided to teach the kids how to cheer....cause you know I wasn't a cheerleader, so it just makes sense.....anyways, we were eating lunch and I said, "When I say apple, you say pie...Apple...." Giggles, looking at each other laughing...."you're supposed to say pie"....more giggles....Let's try again, "When I say Donna, you say Vin....Donna....Come on, say Vin"..."VIN!"....Okay, "Let's try again...When we yell it together it sounds like Donovan"....nothing but giggles....then Delaney yelled "Donovan".....We tried Big Bird, Mommy Rules....all they could do was laugh...so I told Delaney to try it....She said, "When you say sheep, you say sheep...Go ahead and say sheep Mom, its your turn"....I'm thinking they'll be in the game and not on the sidelines....

Hawskaball!

Probably shouldn't share this one but it cracked me and my husband up...My two year old is obsessed with basketball....Its all he wants to do...We have the Little Tikes hoop and he will dunk a basketball 700 times a day....my husband who just so happens to be a basketball coach, couldn't love it more....my son actually has combined the team, with the name....He coaches the 'Hawks' and my son calls basketball, 'Hawksaball'....very cute stuff....well, his first order of business on most days is locating the ball....Somehow every night, it seems to magically disappear and takes him a while to find...well, the other morning he was running around looking for it, lifting things up, moving stuff around, 'hawksaball? hawksaball?' Always best to call out to inanimate objects when looking for them....Anyways, I was laying on the floor with the baby when Van looked at me, smiled super big, ran over and started pulling my sweatshirt up....I started laughing cause I didn't know what he was doing until he started yelling 'hawksaball, hawksaball!' He completely felt me up and then looked at me when he realized that I did not, in fact, have the ball hidden in my shirt...LOL Made this nursing, normally flat chested mom feel pretty good....

'Killing' Time

You know how fun days can be when you didn't get much sleep and you have several kids to entertain but you just don't have the energy to do much....Well, that's my day....We YouTubed some nursery rhymes for an hour....always a good time killer, breakfast, lunch coming soon....well, I just said to the kids, "How about we all go and take a bath, just to kill some time" Sounds like a perfect scenario to me....well, my very literal soon-to-be four year old looks at me with total dislike and says, "No way mom, we don't kill! That's not nice" I'm so glad she's here to set me straight....

Bedtime

So we're sitting here, tired as can be, just my husband and I, kids are screaming and playing, having an absolute blast, when my husband says, lets get ready for bed (7:30p) My daughter looks at us like we're crazy, points to the window and says, "I don't think so, its still light outside. We go to bed when its dark and we don't get up until its light. That's the rule" Our words always come back to bite us in the ass! LOL Damn Daylight Savings!

Amazing....

So today was the Butterfly/Bumblebee field trip at daycare and I volunteered to go, being the slightly crazy parent that I am....Bounce U was where we landed and if you've never been, there are many, many, giant, blow-up bounce houses, slides, climbing structures, etc. Well, for most of the kids, my almost four year old included, the one climbing structure was horribly impossibly. I myself am still sore and hurting from climbing to the top...trust me, quite an accomplishment....well, my daughter made it to the top with lots of help from teachers and myself, but nonetheless, she made it up and down the slide....well, when she was done....she ran over to me and with the best, most proud smile ever, said, "Mom, I am soooo amazing!" LOL I think she has self esteem issues.....

Happy

Well, My daughter is obsessed right now with none other than herself...She's almost 4, I think its to be expected....but its quite amusing....and sometimes not....She also has a new fascination with my computer and I mistakenly let her play games once or two hundred times, so she thinks she's an expert....well, when I'm checking my email and trying to do work, she can't help but get annoyed and she usually whines and complains that I never let her do anything and she just wants to play, etc, etc. I tend to get annoyed at the whining and so I told her until she learns to ask in a pleasant and nice manner, that she will NEVER play on my computer, because I can't stand the whining! So today, she tried a new approach. She came over, she smiled at me, put her arm around my neck and said, "How about you try to make me happy.....If you make me happy, I'll be happy!" I fell over laughing. Good try kid! She got to play a little but only because I was very amused and much more pleased with the 'happy' approach rather than the whiny one....