Due not to popular demand, but more because I wrote these down so I'd remember, I have more to add after your 31-month post.
"Diki-diki-da-da"
You sing this often, without provocation, as you are going about your daily toddler routine. Sometimes I spontaneously sing it and it makes you laugh outrageously, perhaps because I am speaking to you in your language, even if I don't have a tiny clue as to what it means.
"Go to the snow and see Grandma Bear"
I told you yesterday that we have three more days before we go to the snow, "Boots!" you replied, meaning your brand new snow boots had better be coming too or there would be one upset toddler. Then you told Daddy "go to the snow and see Grandma Bear!"
"Here comes Ava!"
I don't know where this came from, this declaration that you're coming down the stairs into the family room, or into the house, but you say this frequently and it always makes me grin.
"The mommys has to do it"
This one is going to get me into trouble soon, because when Daddy tries to help you do something...anything...from changing your diaper to putting you in your car seat and I'm around, you respond with..."the mommys has to do it" Someday soon, honey, mommy is going to be tired!
"Yay, I did it!"
I'm not sure what you did, but you definitely did IT!
love,
Mommy
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Thirty one months, but who's counting?
Hi little one,
Where do I begin to tell the story of my little girl who is getting bigger and smarter by the day? I begin with your words, and see where they lead me.
"Stop please moving cars!"
...you said last week as we were crossing the street. I had decided we needed to get out of the house at 5PM on a Sunday so we went for a walk along Cortland, the main street of Bernal Hill. Daddy and I have been encouraging you to look for 'moving cars' for a while now before you cross the street, and I was infinitely pleased that although you'd run ahead at each block, you'd wait for me at the curb to hold your hand as you crossed.
"Mommy's tea, where are you?"
you called to my tea the other day, that I had made earlier and couldn't find on any flat surface in the whole house. "Ava, have you seen Mommy's tea?" I asked. To which you responded the above. I finally found my tea in the microwave, where I'd reheated it and left it for evaporation, I suppose.
"I need Moose and Rabbit and Donkey!"
Before you go to bed, or even lie down to watch baby einstein on the TV in my room, you gather around you the likes of one moose (featured on here frequently), one white rabbit, and a purple donkey that you insist says 'woof' and not 'hee-haw'. This is your tribe of friends, constant members of your ongoing tea party. Speaking of...
"I need to have a tea party!"
There are a few things that made me laugh in this exclamation of yours a couple days ago...okay, maybe one. That you NEED to have a tea party. Need and tea party have never been together in a sentence in my speech, but hey, I can understand. I need lots of things that don't make sense to anyone else! And who attended your tea party, but Moose and Rabbit and Donkey arranged fabulously around your tea set!
"Go to the snow, I need to go to the snow!"
After we bought you cute snow boots for our upcoming trip to visit Grandma Bear, you thought snow was right around the corner. Sorry honey!
"Please, I'm saying please!"
I wish I could remember what you were asking for specifically, but not only are your "please-s" and "thank you-s" becoming more prevalent, the fact that you reiterated your please with "I'm saying please" makes me a card-carrying member of the Mothers-of-Smart-Daughters club.
I love you honey, happy 31 months in this adorable body.
Mommy
Where do I begin to tell the story of my little girl who is getting bigger and smarter by the day? I begin with your words, and see where they lead me.
"Stop please moving cars!"
...you said last week as we were crossing the street. I had decided we needed to get out of the house at 5PM on a Sunday so we went for a walk along Cortland, the main street of Bernal Hill. Daddy and I have been encouraging you to look for 'moving cars' for a while now before you cross the street, and I was infinitely pleased that although you'd run ahead at each block, you'd wait for me at the curb to hold your hand as you crossed.
"Mommy's tea, where are you?"
you called to my tea the other day, that I had made earlier and couldn't find on any flat surface in the whole house. "Ava, have you seen Mommy's tea?" I asked. To which you responded the above. I finally found my tea in the microwave, where I'd reheated it and left it for evaporation, I suppose.
"I need Moose and Rabbit and Donkey!"
Before you go to bed, or even lie down to watch baby einstein on the TV in my room, you gather around you the likes of one moose (featured on here frequently), one white rabbit, and a purple donkey that you insist says 'woof' and not 'hee-haw'. This is your tribe of friends, constant members of your ongoing tea party. Speaking of...
"I need to have a tea party!"
There are a few things that made me laugh in this exclamation of yours a couple days ago...okay, maybe one. That you NEED to have a tea party. Need and tea party have never been together in a sentence in my speech, but hey, I can understand. I need lots of things that don't make sense to anyone else! And who attended your tea party, but Moose and Rabbit and Donkey arranged fabulously around your tea set!
"Go to the snow, I need to go to the snow!"
After we bought you cute snow boots for our upcoming trip to visit Grandma Bear, you thought snow was right around the corner. Sorry honey!
"Please, I'm saying please!"
I wish I could remember what you were asking for specifically, but not only are your "please-s" and "thank you-s" becoming more prevalent, the fact that you reiterated your please with "I'm saying please" makes me a card-carrying member of the Mothers-of-Smart-Daughters club.
I love you honey, happy 31 months in this adorable body.
Mommy
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