Sweet Tweet

I bent over to stretch my back and rested my head on the arm rest of the couch.  Susie walked over to me and said, "What's wrong, Mommy?  What's wrong, beautiful sunshine?" What a lovely child.

I get no respect

I'm sitting on the couch preparing for a big work project.  I've been responsible for Susie's well-being while her daddy took his older kids back home across the state; so, now it's his turn.  They are sitting on the love seat in the same room, working on a sticker book.  Daddy said to Susie, "Where should this sticker go?"  She replied, "Right here, Slick. Right here." 

It sounds like . . .

Susie is starting to experiment with more complex words now that her speaking confidence is growing.  Sometimes, her interpretation of words makes for interesting fodder.  For example, the other day Susie announced that "Daddy is a boy."  I half acknowledged her.  She went on to say, very proud of herself, "Daddy is a boy.  He has a pinkie between his legs. There in the front, between his legs."  What? What did she say?  I look up from the veggies I was chopping to see her looking at her fully clothed daddy, pointing to his genitalia.  Ummm.  Pinkie?  We pride ourselves on calling things by their anatomically correct name, so I guess what we call it hasn't really registered.  She found a word that she knew as a substitute.   On a seperate note, I guess this was our heads up that THIS is the age where we should find some time to let Susie shower on her own instead of popping her in and out of Mommy or Daddy's showers.  :^O

Less embarrassing, but along the same lines of hearing what you are familiar with instead of what is being said. . . . Susie loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  There is a character on there called the Professor.  He randomly shows up and every time he does, Susie giggles.  I was initially concerned that maybe she had her first crush . . . on a duck . . . on an old, odd sounding duck . . . that is a cartoon.  Whew! Well, it turns out the reason she found him so hilarious is that she thought his name is Pacifier.  Her long lost friend that we had to abandon in favor of straight teeth.  It took me awhile to figure this out.  But one day while watching she told me "That Passey is so silly."  I looked around and asked, "What passey."  And she responded, pointing at the tv, "THAT passey, Mommy.  That pacifier is so silly.  He made Donald a frog."

Geometry Lesson

Susie and I were reading a book about all of the things that could happen to Elmo, and that no matter what, Elmo's mommy would still love him.  At one point Elmo asks if his mommy would still love him if he had corners.  I pointed to the picture and showed Susie that Elmo was square.  She looked at me and said, "No, Mommy.  Elmo's a cube. He's a cube, Mommy." Of course he was in fact a cube.  I just didn't know she knew that word.  Silly me.

Darn it!

On the way home from eating dinner at my parents' house, Susie announces that she wants a lollipop when we get home.  I told her that it is a little too late to have sweets, and maybe she can have one tomorrow.  Susie slaps her hand on her leg and says, "Darn it! Darn it, Mommy!" She doesn't miss ANYTHING!

No!

Susie has a sinus infection and has been a bit of a crank-pot because of it.  After a trip to the doctor's office, we stopped at Nana and Grandpa's house to say hi and ended up staying for lunch.  At the table, Susie kept telling everyone, "NO!" It didn't matter what question we threw at her, the answer was "NO!"  I realize that this is something common amongst two year-old kids, however, Susie is usually a yes girl.  Anyway, after a string of grumpy no's, Nana asked Susie if she had any yes's in there.  Susie responded (of course), "NO!"  So, Nana asked where her yes's went, and Susie said, "They're in the trash can!" 

Ohhhhh.  Well, I guess that explains it. We'll have to go buy some new yes's.

A Wink and a Smile

Susie and I went for a walk around the block today after dinner.  A car approaching us slowed to turn right.  Susie looked at it and said, "The car is wink-king at me! It's winking, Mommy!" And proceeded to wink back at it.  I had to take a second look at the car to realize that she was talking about the blinker.  As the car drove off down the side street, Susie stopped and waved at it, and said, "Bye bye car.  Nice to see you!"