There's been so much going on in my little corner of the world the past month or so...that will have to be another post, that I hopefully WILL write someday. Anyway, I've been on vacay from school for the past two weeks and thought I would get a chance to purge & throw away a lot of un-needed clutter and most importantly spend some quality time with the kids. Although I didn't spend as much time as I wanted on those things, i did get to catch at least a little QT w/ Jeremiah & Emma.
I have the tendency to just post on my FB little things that the kids say just because it's quick, but I really think I need to start posting it here. Somehow I feel like it will last longer here. For lack of time (I start a new semester in the morning & figure I should try to sleep earlier than my usual 3-4am bedtime) I'll just write my little post about todays funny things my kids say.
When Jeremiah was little I used to make it a point to read to him every night. He'd always want the same story How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. I didn't mind it, it was a cute story, and I tried to make it interesting and fun and he ended up memorizing it and repeating it the way I had read it to him. Anyway, I haven't been consistent with reading since I started nursing school, so since I was on vacation I tried to resume my nightly story time. This weeks winner was The Foot Book by Dr Seuss. Emma loves this book & makes me read it all the time! It's pretty funny cause she also repeats things the way I read it to them and she hates it when I say it's the end. Today she even stopped me before getting to the last page and tried to tell me to read it again....which brings me to one of the points of my title! When she knows what she wants, she wants it done right now! Soooo me...sometimes, ok, most of the time!
The kids have a little kitchen that my husband got from his work. We keep it in our play room/computer room/my craft room along with the bulk of the toys so that I can work/study while they play. Today, Emma announced that she was gonna cook for me. "I gonna cook por u, ok mommy?!" Of course I said "oh, OK!" so there she stood at her kitchen pretending to cook. She even paused to look for the spoon to mix her concoction in her little pot. "OH! where's da spoon?" looks down and sees it near her foot and says, "OH! der it is!" hehe. I just wanted to squeeze her! Anyway, she continued to cook, pretended to ladel something out of the pot and gave me some. Then she says, just like me, "is it good? u like it, mommy?" I said "ya, that's yummy soup!" Then she says w/ a smirk, "nooooo, dat's not toup! dat's noodles!" lol.
Oh, I wish I had a way to record her or DVR her so I could play back what she says! haha.
She's also been going at it with her markers lately - washable of course! We set up a little table with a roll of paper for the kids to draw on right next to my computer table. Emma loves to draw and has almost fill up the roll of paper with circles! We had to turn the roll over to use the other side. I think in 20 minutes she could fill a table worth of paper into a drawing of tiny circles and still not be tired of drawing! Last week I decided to show her how to write her name. you can never start to early, right? haha. Anway, she would constantly ask me to "draw Emma", so one day I decided to draw a face w/ eyes and all and even added curly hair and told her that that was Emma...OMG, now she ALWAYS wants me to "draw Emma" One time I tried to trick her and I just wrote out her name. She got mad and said, "NO! wid da eyes!" hehe. Now to get her involved in drawing herself I only draw the shape of her face, eyes, nose, mouth and ears and hand her the marker & tell her to draw her hair. I think she's catching on though cause she'll only draw a circle on or around the face then tell me to "draw Emma!" again. and again. and again. Oy! This child! She's just like me! She knows all my lines (like "What da heck!?"- not proud of that one, but it IS pretty funny when she says it and I always have to fight a laugh!), gets mad JUST like me, wants what she wants right away, oh, I could go on and on! haha. She cracks me up everyday and it's amazing how much she learns from just watching what everyone around her does everyday! hmm, that sounds like me too! lol
