Ponderences and funny things

Today I bought Joanna a boys' bike so that when James gets it as a hand-me-down, it won’t be pink.  {It is a pretty bright green, and I’m sure we’ll put streamers on it, so it’s a nice compromise.}

James is the first of my children that I have wanted to squeeze his cheeks all the time.  Is it a boy thing?

Today at lunch my mom was peeling a shrimp and started asking me whether a shrimp was a crustacean or a mollusk. And I'm like, uh...... but my first thought was not "Hmmmm... let me think back to my last science class." Nope, my first thought was "Hmmm... I wonder if that was in The Little Mermaid."

A couple of weeks ago I was at a restaurant with Natalie and she was like “Momma, momma, momma, momma, momma, momma” and I had kind of tuned her out.  Then I turned to her dramatically and gave her a stare.  She said “say ‘what’.”  Ha!  {By the way that story is way more funny told in person, but I don’t want to forget it.}

James has come up to me like six times in the last few minutes to give me a kiss and wave “bye bye.”  No wonder I want to squeeze his cheeks all the time!!

Eight times.  Oh, I love that boy!

Natalie’s lingo

I have to write some of these down before I forget!  Pardon if they’ve already made it to the blog-o-world and I just don’t remember.  :)  I have some on video, but I doubt I’ll get around to posting.

Helicopter = hepicopter

Umbrella = underrella; it used to be Cinderella

Yee-haw! = bee haw

Conversations

Me: (on the way home from Tennis Camp) What craft did you make?
Joanna: A rainbow
Me: Why’d you make a rainbow?
Joanna: Just because.
Me: Well, what story did you read?
Joanna: Noah was a good man.  No, he was the only good man.  (She says this emphatically, using both fists to make the point.) 
Then she went on to tell the rest of the story.  I just can’t get over how she said it; she knew it was an important part of the story.  She’s so grown up!

 

Me: (calling Matt on the way home from a baby shower)
Natalie answers: Hi Mommy!
Me: Hi Baby…(we chat)… Where’s Daddy?
Natalie: right there (I find out later she’s pointing)
pause
Me: Can I talk to Daddy?
Natalie: You come home, you talk to Daddy.

I mean – what?!!  She’s TWO!  Where’d she get that from?  She didn’t say it really snarky, just pretty matter-of-fact.  She’s so funny.

Running list of funny comments and conversations

Natalie and I are sitting on the couch. Everyone else is still asleep or asleep again. Natalie’s holding this little piece of cloth that she has decided is a doll baby wipe.

Natalie: (saying something about changing the baby’s diaper or checking for poopy)

Natalie: She’s not listening.

Me: Who’s not listening?

Natalie: You.

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Natalie singing:

Mary had a little man, little man, little man…

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Joanna: Sometimes the light is too bright and it hurts my ears.

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Me: Auntie Kathryn is coming tomorrow.

Natalie: And her hold me a lo-ot (two syllable version of lot). It’s fun to me.

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Natalie calls toilet paper “privacy.” I’m not exactly sure how that started; I just realized it. You know she has to be so confused when we ask her if she needs privacy, she says yes, then we back out of the room. She grabbed some toilet paper the other day to give to Matt so he could take care of a bug. She tells someone (I think Mindy, maybe?) sitting on the couch that her daddy needs privacy. That’s when I figured it out. I find it so hilarious I’m having a hard time making myself correct her.

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Joanna just got this toy from McDonald’s named “Penny.” She keeps going, “Hey Coin!”

Conversations

Natalie: (dressed in jammies, dress-up shoes, and a ratty cowboy hat) I a cowboy.  Bee haw!

Me: Yee haw!

Natalie: No, you not a cowboy.

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Natalie: I don’t want to put my pillow in the time machine.

Me: You don’t want to put your pillow in the washing machine?

Natalie: Yeah.

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The girls were watching our Cedarmont Kids Sunday School Songs DVD, and there is one where the kids are singing “Jacob’s Ladder” and they’re at a gym and swinging on a ladder.

Joanna: I want to swing on a ladder like that. (she says this a few times through the song)

Natalie: (patting Joanna) My sister wants to swing on the ladder.

Me: Do you want to swing on a ladder too?

Natalie: nods, eyes wide

Me: Well, I guess we’ll have to find one like that.  I don’t know where they are.

Joanna: Are they on Amazon?

My children are PRECIOUS

Me: Joanna, why did I put you in time out?
Joanna: because I touched your computer.
Me: Why did you do that?
Joanna: because I was confused.

Natalie: I want my Gran.
Me: She isn’t here baby.
Natalie: But I want to love her in the rocking chair.

James: baa baa baa babababa