Mia

Lillian walks around with two stuffed kitties. When you ask her what the big kitty's name is, she says, "Mia." When you ask her what the little kitty's name is, she says, "MoreMia"

Tracing

Today Lillan traced her name in her notebook with no encouragement from anyone. Then Josh drew some dashed lined shapes for her to connect the dots and she traced a star, triangle, and heart.

Balloon + Blimp

Today is the Rolex Race and there is a blimp hovering in the sky. Lillian called it a balloon and Josh told her that it is a blimp. She cannot pronounce blimp, so it comes out, "bloomp"

French Braid

I tried to french braid Lillian's hair twice and failed miserably. Finally I gave up and said, "I can't do it." Lillian patted her hair and said, "It's perfect."

Bathtime Sayings

While scrubing Lillian's head in the bathtub, she said to me, "Ow Mommy, that hurts. That is NOT NICE!" Okay, so she did learn that saying from me.

Today when at Jennifer and Nathan's house, she called Jennifer, 'mommy' and Nathan, 'daddy.' I think she understands that they are Jordyn and Connors Mommy and Daddy because she doesn't call our other friends that when they are watching her, and our other friends are childless. Maybe she just couldn't remember their names and just bestowed them the authoritative title.

Emma is 14 lbs 8 oz and 27 inches long. She will be six months old in a few days

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Sqeeks and Squaks

Today Lillian was sliding around on my tile floor and going, "squeee" when she got to the end of her slide. No clue where she learned that sound effect. I guess TV.

She's also gotten so good at the order of Noggin programming, that in the morning when she's eating breakfast... when Sunnypatch came to an end she started screaming "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast" and she was right, that is what was coming on next.

When we went to meet Josh at his truck, I told Lillian that we were going to go pick daddy up. She said, "NO! He's too big!" (he's too big for her to pick up hahaha)

Later on when Josh was home and we turned on the TV, it was on channel 134 (Noggin) for about 4 seconds before he flipped the channel. No image, just 4 seconds of sound... and she yelled "Blues Clues!" We checked the program, and sure enough. She was right. I looked over and called her my autistic child.

Later on we were flipping channels and we came across a preview for James Bond Octopussy, and James Bond was dressed up as a clown. She started shouting "Mickey Donald! Mickey Donald!"

Stories and Gas

I just asked Lillian to read fussy Emma a story. So Lilian got a book of her shelf and started with, "Once upon a time."

Then when helping mix the biscuits, Lillian let out a fart. I said, 'Did you just fart?' she smiled and said, "Nooooo Emma farted"

Some Random Lillianisms

There were so many things on Friday that I wanted to write about, but I didn't text them from my phone, so of course I've forgotten most of them.

When we were discussing what to eat for dinner, Josh asked Lillian, "What would you like to eat for dinner?" There was this long, "hmmmmmm" from the back seat followed by, "Chocolate?!"

The other evening Lillian was snuggling with Josh and she was sucking her thumb. Josh asked her if her thumb tastes good. She said, "No" so Josh asked, "Then why do you suck it?" Lillian rolled her eyes and let out the biggest exasperated sigh possible.

There's so many more... we are just trying to remember them all

daisy or Daisy?

On Tuesday Lillian asked me to draw a daisy. So I drew a little flower. Then she said, "No Mommy. You need eyes"
So I drew eyes on it.
"And mouth"
So I drew a mouth on it.
"And nose"
So I drew a nose on it.
I'm wondering why in the world a daisy needs to have a face on it.

Then she pointed next to it and said, "Now draw Oswald"
Ooh, she meant Daisy the character, not daisy the flower! (although the character is a flower)


Picture taken from the Plushie sold on Amazon.com

Boogers=Crackers?

I just caught Lillian picking her nose and I asked, "Why are you picking your nose? Are you digging for gold?"
Her eyes light up and she replied, "YES! Goldfish! I want some crackers, some goldfish crackers!"
Hahaha I would have never associated a booger related phrase with a yummy Pepperidge Farm cracker.

Excuses Already

Last night Lillian was extra whiney, so I had to take her away from people and put her in time out. I was trying to explain to her how she was behaving badly and how I expected her to behave. She started throwing excuses at me;
"I'm afraid!"
"of what?"
"Afraid of thunder!"
"There is no thunder"
"Afraid of lightning!"
"There is no lightning"
"Afraid of RAIN!!!"
"THERE IS NO RAIN! You should be afraid of me!!!!"
"Afraid of you?"
"Yes, because I'm on the verge of spanking you for giving me excuses"

Then today I told her not to step on the clothes that were on the floor getting ready to be washed (she had her big cowboy boots on)
She looks at me and says, "Afraid of airplane"... the airplane had gone by over 5 minutes ago! I told her, "Instead of giving me and excuse, why can't you just say, 'Okay Mommy, I'm sorry'? ARE you sorry?"
"NOPE"

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Then I asked her if she wanted a turkey sandwich for dinner. She said, "Yes, and Micky Mouse cereal" (this is what she calls Rice Krispies since he's on the box this month) I told her, "You've already had three bowls today." Right away she shot back with, "No! Only two!" And she was right.... she did only have two bowls today. Smart kid. Not only can she count, she now knows what the numbers actually mean.

Oh, and last night in her prayer she thanked God for "dinosaurs" and "Yo Gabba Gabba" >_<

Too Much TV

Our TV is about 5 years old, and it takes about 20 seconds or so for the picture to appear when you turn it on. The sound comes on almost instantaneously though. So today when I turned on Noggin for Lillian, she started screaming "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast" before the image even appeared on the screen. (although it doesn't sound anything like that)She knew it was them just by the voices! Do you think she watches too much TV.

Later on she asked for tea. I told her that I didn't have any. She looked at me blankly and said, "Go fix some". Alrighty then

Upside Down

This morning while picking out books to read to Emma, Lillian flipped out that one of her books was on the shelf "up-down-side", so she had to pull it down and flip it the right way to put it back on the shelf.

Also Lillian's pronunciation of the word "snuggles" is "nug nols"

Today when I told her that Daddy got to eat lunch with some friends of ours, she said, "NO! Daddy at work in his truck!"

"Nice Hair"

This morning I woke up to Lillian stroking my hair saying, "Nice hair, mommy. Like a princess."

This week Emma has been going back to two bottles a night instead of one. For a week she was eating at 9pm and then sleeping till 6am. It was heavenly. Now she's back to eating at 1am and 6am. Last night when Lillian said her prayer I swear she thanked God for "Lilly's Shows" (ie the Noggin channel)

In good news, Mia came home after being missing for 6 days. We had toured the humane society and called all the ones that are full (no kill shelters) but she wasn't there. We found a cat who looked exactly like Mia except she had a curly underbelly. Lillian was so upset when we left the shelter because she thought we were just leaving Mia there. This morning I was in the kitchen getting something and I saw a white ball of fluff in my back yard. She returned!

First of Many

Last night Lillian said her own prayer without my coaching and you could actually understand most of it. She said, "Dear Jehovah, thank you for the day. Thank you for daddy, and his work truck. Thank you for Emma.....(unrecognizable babble in here)... We love you, Jesus name, Amen!"

Today when we were grocery shopping and I was loading the truck with the groceries she started freaking out about her pear. I thought she was just mad that I took the bag from her and put it in the car. But when I closed the Jeep door I saw a pear laying on the ground. She was telling me that I dropped a pear! What a good helper.

Then when she woke up from her nap she came running into my room and said, "I want my fruit please!" I asked her which one and she said, "GRAPES!" then as I was washing the grapes and pulling them off the stock, she proceeded to tell me about the monster that she was afraid of. I asked her what color it was, and she said, "BLACK!" I'm thinking that she must be afraid of shadows in the dark. I was deathly afraid of them when I was little, and slept with a night light on until... well until I got married! HAHA

Today Emma found her big voice. She was talking really loudly and it was so cute. I got a few minutes of video