November 23, 2010

Lilly was a dog this morning. She yelped her way to where I was sitting and gave me a big slobbery dog kiss on the arm. Why is it that a dog can lick his butt, then lick a person and it is OK, but when a 3-year-old who brushes her teeth every day licks you it is disgusting? Lilly is an excellent pretender, and as such she did not see the problem with licking me as long as she was a dog at the time. Understand when Lilly is a dog, she is 100% a dog.



Dressing up for Trick or Treating mid-summer with Ian



Rachel is having a play date with Sarah Winger today. I use both her first and last name when discussing her with Rachel so she doesn't get confused between Sarah Winger and Aunt Sarah. Now every time she says anything to Sarah Winger she calls her by her full name. Sarah is a very sweet girl, but she is the youngest of 6 kids by quite a bit, and they very obviously adore her. I am not sure how she will handle having the noise, drama and teasing of 2 younger siblings around. Her family seems so peaceful!

Carson has a new word, one that I am sure he picked up from his sisters. Everything is "mine!" at the very least, and usually "Mine! Mine!Mine!..." I knew this day would come, but it is so annoying! The problem is it usually works to get him what he wants, thanks to Mother #2 and Mother #3 (Rachel and Lilly).

Since there is not much going on in our lives worthy of blogging about, here are some words before I forget:

Rachel calls bananas "blanas," piano is "plano" and for a while, yellow was "lellow". Shelby taught her to yell the first part to get it right, so now yellow is "YELL-ow!" Lying is not called lying, it is called "doing a lie" and instead of saying "are we" she says "is it we are". For example "is it we are going to swim lessons today?" Oh, another great one. She calls sweaty "slobbery," as in "my body is all slobbery."



Fun with Dad



Lilly calls seagulls "skeetos" (short for mosquitoes), computer is "peeter" (this is Rachel's as well), and my all time favorite, together is "togwether" as in "let's do it togwether".  With Lilly we are never going to the store, we are always going "out the store". And stop lights are "stop lions". When we are stopped at one Lilly says its eyes are closed. And if you try to tell her the right way to say it, I must warn you, you will lose.

Carson's word for everything is "uh!"