Rotten egg

Peanut: "Come mommy, let's go downstairs, I"ll be the rotten egg!"

Mommy: "Uh...it's 'last one downstairs is a rotten egg' sweety"

Peanut: "Last one downstairs, I'm a rotten egg!"

On the stairs, mommy is first....

Peanut: "Awww, mommy, I want to go first"

Mommy stops to let Peanut go by so she can be first...

Peanut: "Yay!! I'm a rotten egg!"

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

Peanut was listening to the radio playing Christmas music....

Peanut: "Mommy, what does 'Police Namina' mean?"

Mommy: "It's Felice Navidad, it means Merry Christmas"

Peanut: "In french?"

Mommy: "no, it's Spanish"

Peanut: " (singing) Police Namina, police namina"

orange slush

Mommy made butternut squash with dinner, something Peanut had never tried before...

Peanut: "What are we having?"

Mommy: "It's called squash, I know it looks funny but I think you'll like it"

Peanut: (takes a bite and is pleasantly surprised) "Mmmm, Daddy, try the slush, it's really good!"

polka dots

Mommy and Peanut were having breakfast, we had just woken up so mommy had no makeup on yet and was having a bad skin week....

Peanut: "You have polka dots on you"

Mommy: "Where?"

Peanut: "On your face, here and here and here and here and here...."

Mommy: "Oh, yes, they're not polka dots, they're pimples"

Peanut: "Do you like them?"

Mommy: "No, they're no fun"

Peanut: "Oh, but they look fun-ny"

reading

Peanut's been learning her letters and can now name each letter she sees. She was showing a friend this one night reading the word "Counting" off her Dora placemat at dinner...

Peanut: "C.....O.....U.....upside down U ("n")....T....."

Autumn

Peanut was on the phone with her aunt. It was a snowy day and they were discussing this...

Auntie: "It's a snowy day, did you see?"

Peanut: "Yes, it's like it's never gonna stop snowing"

Auntie: "Yes, it seems like it eh?"

Peanut: "But it will and when it stops it'll be spring"

Auntie: "Yes, and then what comes after spring?"

Peanut: "uhhhh, summer!"

Auntie: "And then what comes after summer?"

Peanut: "Uhhhh....."

(As she tried to think about the answer, daddy whispers "Fall" to her a few times)

Peanut: "Autumn! Fall is also called autumn"

an all over want

Peanut: "Mommy, can you turn on my tv?" (meaning Playhouse Disney/Treehouse)

Mommy: "I'm just feeding your brother so you'll have to wait till I'm done"

Peanut: "But daddy might come and turn on his tv!"

Mommy: "Well, you'll have to wait, I can't get up right now"

Peanut: "Ok. Can I play my game if daddy puts on his tv then?"

Mommy: "Maybe a little bit later"

Peanut: "But my whole body is telling me that it really wants to play my Franklin game" (a Nintendo DS game)

a fact

Peanut: "There's no two Peanuts!"

coffee girl

Mommy and daddy were going through the drive through at Tim Hortons, daddy needed a coffee and we only had $2 on us, so that was all we could get...

Peanut: "I would like a sprinkle donut and an orange juice"

Mommy: "Sorry Peanut, all we have is $2 so daddy's just gonna get a coffee"

Peanut: "Can I get an orange juice?"

Mommy: "Sorry sweety, we only have enough for one coffee"

Peanut: ""But little girls don't like coffee!"

a letter to her dog

Koda went to live with grandma and grandpa, they have TONS more room for him to run and play, but he still keeps in touch by emailing Peanut with stories of what he's been up to and how much fun he's having. Peanut really loves to hear from Koda, this is her response to his most recent email:

"Hi Koda, I wish I can come back to you. Even I can bring your ball and throw it for you and then you can catch the ball. I asked Santa to give you a bone for Christmas, not a toy bone, a real bone. A real big shiny bone and a strong bone cause you're getting strong. I want to see you next snow day! Mommy's helping me write this cause I'm still learning, but I want to try to write something to you....

hihiyihuihuigujhdsaasaeriifiof9kgbbbbbhhfjfgjjfkjggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggjjjetghdm njhknhkjhkkmkbjbnngkggggggggggkvvnvb

That says "I wish I can pet you" but that's not all what I want to type....

vbbvjbjcbvcjvjccbvjcvjvbjvcbvjcvjovcbvjcjvbcvjcbjcvbjbbbvjcjvjvjfvccjhvcgchgfh

That one says "I wish I can show you Wall-E" (he's a toy robot I have from a movie that J and S took me to see a while back, the theater was so cool!)

I'm coming to see you at Christmas, and I really want you to pull me in the sled, that would be so fun! I want to type three more things to you Koda....

vvjvjchjbjhvjhbvjhbg (I wish I can show you my dance)

vbjjbjvjjcbvjcbvjcbvcbvcjvcbvcbjvj (I wish I can show you my new doggy game and my regular doggy game)

hvhfhhvgvfhfhgfhvchfghghghghhdfhdghfhdgdhghd (I want to bring you a present and I wish that my cousins would show you their presents that they get from us)

(Not bad, I typed all that without looking at the keys, just like Mommy!) I love you Koda, be good to great grandma and great grandpa, that way they'll keep giving you gravy! See you soon!

Love, Your kid
Peanut"

Ovals

At dinner, while mommy and daddy were trying to have a conversation...

Peanut: "Daddy, daddy, can I tell you something?"

Daddy: "Yes Peanut, what would you like to say?"

Peanut: "Are our heads ovals?"

Daddy: "Yes, our heads are oval shapes I guess"

Peanut: "But some peoples heads are squares"

Daddy: "Yes, people come in all different shapes"

Peanut: "Let's put our oval heads together and think about it"

I thinked about it...

Whenever Peanut gets in trouble for something and has a time out to think about it, she usually yells out "I thinked about it!" when she's finished her time out. Every now and then when mommy and daddy listen to her in her time out, she'll be praying to God to thank him for mommy and daddy, all her friends and to help her to listen better. Most recently, in a time out for not listening and misbehaving at a store....

Peanut: "I thinked about it"

Mommy: "What did you think about?"

Peanut: "I thinked about listening and being a good girl and giving mommy and daddy a hug after thinking about it. And I thinked about God....well, ok, I didn't really think about God, but I thinked about lots of other things"

smelly breath

Peanut and daddy were having fun at breakfast...

Daddy: "oooh, you've got some bad morning breath Peanut!"

Peanut: "My breath doesn't stink!"

Daddy: "A bit, but daddy shouldn't say that, that's mean"

Peanut: "Ya"

Mommy: "It's ok Peanut, you can tell daddy he has halitosis"

Peanut: "Daddy, you have talent-posis"

daddy the family man

Peanut and mommy were talking about going to the mall. Peanut's favorite thing about the mall is the fountain, but for the Christmas season they close up the fountain and build a stage for Santa Clause pictures for the kids...

Peanut: "I want to go to the mall to see the fountain!"

Mommy: "The fountain is closed remember, to get it ready for Santa!"

Peanut: "I know, I want to go and see how the worker mans are doing, how the building is going"

Mommy: "Oh, are you going to ask them how it's coming along?"

Peanut: "No, the worker mans won't answer me!"

Mommy: "Why wouldn't they?"

Peanut: "Because they can't talk to me"

Mommy: "Daddy's a worker man, and he talks to you"

Peanut: "No, daddy's a family man"

Mommy: "No, daddy's a worker man, that's what he does"

Peanut: "When daddy comes home he's not a worker man anymore, he's a family man and then he can talk to me. Those other worker mans are too busy to talk to me"

the S word to the power of ten

Peanut and mommy were having lunch and listening to the radio. The radio announcer was asking a trivia question in a segment called "stupid questions"...

Peanut: "Stupid is a bad word"

Mommy: "I know, they shouldn't say it"

Peanut: "Ya, they shouldn't say stupid cause it's a bad word and I never say stupid cause stupid is a bad word"

Mommy: "You just said it four times, you shouldn't say it at all"

Peanut: "I know, cause stupid is a bad word, and if you say stupid to your friends then they'll maybe say stupid back and its not a nice word so you shouldn't say stupid and that's why I never say stupid"

Mommy: "I think you should stop saying it all together"

Peanut: "I won't say stupid"

If I can't see you, you can't see me

After getting a stern talking to from daddy about not behaving at the dinner table, Peanut started to chant to herself...

Peanut: "Look at mommy, don't look at daddy, look at mommy, don't look at daddy..."

Daddy: "Why are you saying that?"

Peanut: "Because you're mad at me, so I can't look at you, I'll look at mommy"

you know it

Mommy and daddy were having a conversation, when Peanut interrupted with this timeless saying that she came up with on her own...

Peanut: "Mommy, Daddy, listen to me. Watever the weather......you know it"

Loving the park

Mommy: "It's a nice day out today, so if you finish all your lunch we can go to the park. What do you think?"

Peanut: "That would be spectacular!"

Mr. Daddy

Peanut was telling Daddy all about when she grows up...

Peanut: "When I grow up I'll be a mommy and I'll be big enough to carry my own real baby, and I can knit like mommy"

Daddy: "When you have a baby do you know what I'll be to the baby?"

Peanut: "Ummmm....daddy?"

Daddy: "Nope, I'm always your daddy, guess again"

Peanut: "Ummmm,...Mr. Daddy!"

Daddy: "Nope, I'll be your baby's grandpa"

trick or treating

Out trick or treating, we saw many other kids dressed in all thier many different costumes. When we passed an older kid in a "Scream" costume, mommy thought that Peanut would be scared...

Peanut: "Look at that silly guy!"

halloween candy

Mommy was getting the candy ready to hand out to soon to come trick or treaters...

Mommy: "Don't touch Peanut, you'll get tons of candy when you go out trick or treating, those ones are for the kids who come to our door"

Peanut: "I'm just looking at the candy to make sure it's good enough for the humans who come trick or treating at our house....looks good mom!"

a letter for Santa

Peanut:

"Dear Santa,

Can you please give me all of the books that were on the mail? Santa, can you please give me more toys? Cause that's not enough toys for me. Please can you get me a bone for Koda? When I go to grandma and grandpa's for Christmas I promise I'll give Koda a bone. And I would like a cute blanket with a doggy on it for my baby brother. And I think I would like a new princess game with Cinderella and Jasmine and Sleeping Beauty and Ariel. I would like even a blue blankey for my pillow to put on top of my pink blankey. I would like a badge from Santa. A sister badge for being a big sister for my baby brother. Even I would like a bike riding badge. I think daddy would like a new pencil and mommy would like a new hairstyle for her and some makeup. I would like daddy to have some beard (beer) from Santa. I would like to say can you give me a new bowl? A pink bowl.

Thank you Santa for the presents and for everything and for giving me the right presents I want to give to mommy and daddy and me. I hope you give all my friends presents soon cause you're coming soon. I hope you come tomorrow morning. I love you. Hello reindeers and elves too. I love you reindeers and I really love you elves.

Love Peanut"




After we finished writing the letter, Peanut turned to mommy....

Peanut: "Santa will read that and laugh at the beard and makeup, he'll think it's funny!"

law-breaking

Mommy and Peanut were waiting in the car while daddy ran into a store to get something....

Peanut: "You can stand up in the car when it's not moving. But if the car is moving then you can't! It's against the law. Cause if you do, then the police man will come and get you and put you in jail!"

drawing troubles

Peanut: "Mommy, I'm trying to draw a heart but I keep drawing humans, elephant foots and elephants. It's too hard, I guess I'm too little to draw a heart."

ocstacle library?

A random conversation while playing at home....

Peanut: "Is this the ocstacle library?"

Mommy: "The what library?"

Peanut: "The ocstacle library"

Mommy: "What's an ocstacle library?"

Peanut: "An ocstacle library is where humans go to get books"

Mommy: "What's an osctacle?"

Peanut: "An ocstacle is a thing you can swing on"

Mommy: "So you swing at the library?"

Peanut: "Nope."

"Ocstacle" = obstacle

snow time

Peanut: "Can I play in the snow again tomorrow?"

Mommy: "If there's still snow, sure"

Peanut: "And the next day too?"

Mommy: "Well, it's supposed to be gone by Friday, for Halloween"

Peanut: "Right, the snow's gonna go back to fall, then it'll be snow again, then spring. I'll be sad for the snow"

Mommy: "You mean when it melts?"

Peanut: "Yes, cause snow is my best! But spring is my best too, cause in spring all the flowers come"

Mommy: "That's right, then it's summer, and what happens in summer?"

Peanut: "Ummm, more flowers come out, like daisies, and the ones that stay shut"

Mommy: "You mean tulips?"

Peanut: "Yup, tulips"

coo coo

Peanut was playing in the snow (yes, I said snow, and it is October) and she found some icicles on the tree branches in our backyard...

Peanut: "I think those are coo coos"

Mommy: "They're what?"

Peanut: "Coo Coos"

Mommy: "What's a coo coo?"

Peanut: "A coo coo is what the butterflies are in, the caterpillars go in the coo coos to come out like butterflies"

Mommy: "Oh, cocoons"

Peanut: "Ya, coo coos"

French

Mommy was being silly and talking with a french accent...

Peanut: "Mommy, can you talk the normal english again?"

Mommy: "You don't like my french accent?"

Peanut: "No, cause if you talk Chinese then you'll have to move to China and you won't be my mommy anymore."

birthday wishes

Peanut: "You know who's birthday it is soon daddy?"

Daddy: "Who's?"

Peanut: "Mine! You know what I want for my birthday? A birthday balloon, with Princesses on it! With Cinderella! And you know what else I want for my birthday? I want a new sleeping beauty doll!"

Daddy: "How about a hug and a kiss?"

Peanut: "No"

Daddy: "But I thought you liked getting hugs and kisses from mommy and daddy?"

Peanut: "Hugs and kisses are lovely daddy, but they're not birthday presents!"

best friend

After getting in trouble for not listening......

Peanut: "Mommy, will you be my best friend?"

elbrows

Peanut was talking about "elbrows"....

Mommy: "What are elbrows Peanut?"

Peanut: "They're the hair on your face right here (points to her eyebrows)"

magician

Peanut had just gotten out of the bath, she put her hooded towel's hood on her head....

Peanut: "Hey, I look like a magician......look guys, where's my elbows!"

buying a house

We had an open house for our home. Later that day at dinner, Peanut got up and started walking around the kitchen looking around and nodding...

Mommy: "What are you doing?"

Peanut: "I'm just looking at the house"

Mommy: "Why?"

Peanut: "Just seeing if it's the right house for the family"

grocery shopping

Mommy had to get some groceries, and typically we go to one store for the meats and another for the bulk (the one with the meat doesn't have all the bulk products in stock)...

Peanut: "Is this the mall?"

Mommy: "No, this is the grocery store, a mall is a big building with all kinds of stores inside it. This store only has food"

Peanut: "But we have to go to another grocery store after?"

Mommy: "Yes, I buy the meat at this store and then we get the other stuff from the other store"

Peanut: "Why do you buy the meat from this store?"

Mommy: "Because the meat here is better than the other store, but they don't have all the cereal and other stuff we like, like the other store does"

Peanut: "So the meat here is from China?"

Mommy: "I shure hope not!"

Pirate talk

Peanut: "Shiver my timbers, shiver my pencil, shiver my curtains, shiver my spoon, shiver my milk, shiver my bubba, ha ha ha"

morning chit chat with mum

Peanut and mommy were eating breakfast, while almost 3 month old baby brother watched from his seat....

Peanut: "He will eat real people food when he grows up. He can eat cheerios like me and like mommy and daddy, he can eat oatmeal like me and mommy and daddy, he can drink milk like me and like mommy and daddy. He drinks milk right now, from mommy's boobies, not from my boobies, I don't have milk in my boobies, I don't have boobies."

Mommy: "You will when you grow up"

Peanut: "No!"

Mommy: "Yes you will"

Peanut: "Well maybe, and when I grow up and when I'm a mommy! I think I might be a daddy"

days of the week

Peanut was singing a song one morning while mommy was getting her breakfast ready...

Peanut: "One-day (monday), Two's-day (tuesday), Sunday....."

bed head

It was time for bed and Peanut decided she wanted to pick out her PJs, so she chose her nightgown, which came with a headband to match, which she insisted on wearing. Daddy went up to say goodnight after mommy had finished reading her books....


Daddy: "Why do you need to wear your headband to bed?"

Peanut: "Because it keeps things from going inside of my here (points to her head) while I sleep"

Daddy: "What kind of things sweety?"

Peanut: "Oh, like bad dreams and music and cows and puddles"

Pianist

Peanut was at her Grandma and Grandpa's and playing on their piano...

Peanut: "This song is called 'Call Back'"

Grandpa: "Oh, that sounds great"

Peanut: (hits a high note, then a low one, and repeats) "See, you hit the high one, then the low one calls back the high one"

after this day?

Mommy was trying to explain "tomorrow" to Peanut after a slight misunderstanding that caused her to be pretty upset that she still had to wait another day....

Peanut: "Are we going to gymnastics this day?"

Mommy: "Not today, it's in 2 days"

Peanut: "After this day?"

Mommy: "No the day after that. Not tomorrow but the next day"

The following day...

Peanut: "We're going to gymnastics today!"

Mommy: "Not today sweety, tomorrow"

Peanut: "But you said tomorrow!"

Mommy: "No, I said the day after tomorrow"

Peanut: "I thought you said this day (having a little melt down)"

Mommy: "I said the day after tomorrow, which is tomorrow. Yesterday it was 2 days, today it's 1 day. You just have to be patient, it'll come before you know it."

Peanut: "Awwwww, but waiting is boring!"

The following morning....

Peanut: "Mommy, is it tomorrow now?"

Mommy: "Well, it's today"

Peanut: "Aww, I thought you said it would be tomorrow and we can go to gymnastics!"

delighted

Mommy came to pick Peanut up from the babysitters, on the way out to the car....

Peanut: "I had a lot of fun, that was delightful!"

Mommy: "Wow, that's great!"

Peanut: "Ya, it was delightful and thankful"

Polyester PJs

Peanut had gotten a little rash on her chest and daddy came to the conclusion that it was from her polyester blend nightgown and explained to her that she needs 100% cotton pyjamas. Peanut was explaining this at day care...


Peanut: "I need to get new pyjamas because I can't have the cotton percent, I get a rash from cotton percent so I need to get new ones"

Accidents

Peanut had just woken up from her nap, and had slept in underwear rather than pull ups for a first time...

Peanut: "I kind of peed a little, but not a lot, but a little kind of got on my underwear"

Mommy: "Ok, well, then change your underwear, is it on your bed?"

Peanut: "Oh it's ok, it was kind of an accident, it wasn't a big accident, it's just a small one, it's nothing that we need to worry about, it's not a big deal, just an accident, but not a big one, just a little mistake, it's ok, nothing, nevermind"

Peanut's song

Peanut was sitting at the table coloring in her coloring book and she was singing this song she made up as she sang....

Peanut: "My name is Peanut,
I'm really really peaceful,
I'm really really delightful,
Sometimes I'm shy,
Sometimes I'm happy,
Sometimes I'm perfect,
Sometimes I'm fantastic,
Sometimes I'm quiet,
Like at a movie,
Or watching a show,
Or on the computer!"

what do you know?

Peanut: "You know what mom?"

Mommy: "What sweety?"

Peanut: "What, well tell me, what do you know?"

magic trick

Peanut was doing a magic trick on her brother who was in mommy's arms, by holding up a sheet and doing a peek-a-boo type thing....

Peanut: "Dissapear....Come back.....dissapear...come back..."

Mommy: "Do you think he likes that?"

Peanut: "Yes, he's saying 'what is my sister doing? She's trying to dissapear me and mommy!'"

If you need me

Grandpa: "I just have to go to the bathroom"

Peanut: "I don't have to cause I already went pee, all by myself! well, I kind of have to pee"

Grandpa: "Well, you go upstairs and I'll go down here"

Peanut: "Ok, Call me if you need me!"

tootin her own horn

Peanut was coloring a picture on her "Doggy Game" (computer game)....

Peanut: "I'm doing really good! I'm a natural!"

Read-ergies

At the library, Peanut ran up to mommy who was digging through the kids books for some good ones.....

Peanut: "Mommy!! I have a rash on my cheeks!"

Mommy: (sitting her down in the chair to get a good look but seeing nothing) "What do you mean? It's not red, is it itchy?"

Peanut: "Yes!"

Mommy: "I don't see anything, were you rubbing your face?"

Peanut: "It's a rash, its from reading too much"

bi-lingual-ism

Mommy took Peanut to the library, one of her favorite places. While mommy picks out tons of book to borrow that she thinks Peanut will like, Peanut usually looks through a bunch of books she pics out, most of which end up being french...

Peanut: "Mommy! can I take this one?"

Mommy: "Well, it's french so you won't be able to understand it"

Peanut: "But I can learn french"

Mommy: "Yes, when you go to school you'll learn french"

Peanut: "No, I can learn french now so I can take this book! (then proceeds to show mommy how she can read in french) A la casa beusa oh ici eddy bedeu bedo. See mommy!"

New house

Mommy and daddy took grandma and grandpa to see the new house (or right now the hole in the ground). While mommy and daddy were signing some paperwork, grandma and grandpa were looking at the model homes together...

Peanut: "Are you going to get a new house too?"

Grandma: "No, we're going to keep our house"

Peanut: "But your house is getting old, you should get a new one"

her grace

Daddy has painted the bathroom and mommy had framed a painting she did and hung it in the same bathroom....

Peanut: "Daddy, I love your painting, it looks beautiful"

Daddy: "Thank you sweety"

Peanut: "And Mommy, I love your painting too, it looks beautiful too"

Mommy: "Thank you Peanut"

Peanut: "I love all the painting, it looks so graceful!"

our zoo

At dinner Peanut, Mommy and Daddy were being silly and making all kinds of crazy animal noises.....

Daddy: "Maybe when we move to our new house that's how we'll greet our neighbors"

Mommy: "Ya, we could put up a sign outside that says 'zoo' and they'll come in to see all the loud animals and just see us. What do you think they'll say?"

Peanut: "They'll say 'Ahhhh, look at all the crazy elephants and stuff'!"

always fresh, always Tim Hortons

After gymnastics Mommy and Adalia always go to the Tim Hortons drive through for a snack....

Mommy: "What do you want?"

Peanut: "I'll just get a sprinkle donut and a chocolate milk, you can just get a large double double"

new house rules

Mommy had told Peanut that the rule at the new house is that she has to clean up her toys every night before she goes to bed, something that gets overlooked many times at our current house. Mommy thought she made herself pretty clear but apparantly not...

Mommy: "Peanut, tell daddy what the rules are at the new house"

Peanut: "That you get to play your doggie game (her computer game that she loves), no spitting food out, and you can watch TV then you can play and you have to listen to the teacher"

sparkle maker

Peanut: "Mommy, I wish I could meet God"

Mommy: "well, He's everywhere so any time you want to you can talk to him"

Peanut: "Like when we pray?"

Mommy: "yup"

Peanut: "I'm going to pray...God, thank you for making sparkles, I really like them"

making room

Peanut and mommy were having breakfast when Peanut ripped a large toot....

Peanut: "all this tooting is making me more hungry"

Diego

Peanut was watching Diego, Dora the explorer's cousin - the animal rescuer...

Peanut: "Diego is always clapping, doesn't he ever get tired of clapping?"

jump in

Peanut and mommy were having some breakfast sitting at the table. Peanut had brought some books to the table to look at, one of which was her Magic School Bus book. For those who aren't familiar with the series, the class goes on all kinds of field trips in their magic school bus to learn new things.

Peanut: "I wish I could jump in this book to go to school with those kids"

moving

Mommy: "Peanut, do you know that we bought a new house, and will be moving into the new house?"

Peanut: "And someone will take this house?"

Mommy: "Yes, we'll move into the new house and someone will buy this house from us and move in here."

Peanut: "But what about all my toys?"

Mommy: "We're going to pack up all our stuff and take it to the new house, all your toys and your bed will come with us to the new house and we'll set it all up in your new room"

Peanut: "But Mommy, how can we move my bed without a bag to put it in?"

how I feel

Mommy and daddy picked Peanut up after she was spending some time with her cousins while grandma babysat them...

Mommy: "Did you have fun with your cousins?"

Peanut: "Oh yes, it was fun. But my cousin didn't listen to grandma, he was jumping on the bed and he went too far on the grass and he didn't listen"

Mommy: "Did you listen to grandma?"

Peanut: "Yes, but not my cousin, grandma had to say, 'no no, don't do that'"

Mommy: "How'd that make you feel?"

Peanut: "It made me feel.....distinguished"

too big for me

Peanut was looking at a picture of Daddy when he was a little baby...

Peanut: "How old are you in this picture daddy?"

Daddy: "Oh, just about one years old"

Peanut: "How many ago was that?"

Daddy: "About 27 years ago"

Peanut: "Wo, you're growing way too fast, (walking backwards waving her hands as if she's scared of daddy) you're too big for me, you're too big"

more gymnastics excitement

Peanut was at her 3rd gymnastics class, mommy was sitting in the lobby watching. They finished their warm ups and were starting to get into the instructions for the routine they were about to try. At the last class the instructor would hold up a red sign that said "stop" and a green sign that said "go" and the kids would have to stop/start jumping on the trampoline, Peanut LOVED this game. This time there was something new she just had to leave the class to run to tell mommy, in the lobby with all the other parents...

Peanut: "Mommy, mommy!! They have a yellow sign and you know what it says?! SLOW! I never seen that before!"

grandma saves the day

Peanut was at Grandma and Grandpa's for a while one night while mommy and daddy were out. Before it was time to go back home Peanut had to use the potty (for a #1). Afterwards, her pull up was a little twisted and was causing her bum to itch. Grandma took her into the bathroom to fix it for her so that her bum wouldn't be itchy anymore....

Mommy: "It's time to go now, say thank you and bye to grandma and grandpa"

Peanut: "Bye. Thanks for fixing my bum grandma!"

'teef'

Peanut: "Mommy, why do I have to get new teeth and not keep these teeth?"

Mommy: "Because you need big strong grown up teeth when you get bigger so you can eat all the big foods that you'll need when you're big"

Peanut: "But I kinda like these teeth. I'm gonna miss these teeth! Will my other teeth come back today?"

Mommy: "No, you'll get brand new bigger teeth"

Peanut: "My other teeth will not come back? I really wish they could come back after my new teeth."

Just checkin in

Peanut was in the middle of her gymnastics class. The parents sit and watch the kids in the lobby through a large window. A few of the kids were looking through the window and waving to their parents. Peanut noticed them doing this and looked through the window too. Mommy thought it looked like Peanut couldn't see her so she waved to show her where she was. Peanut began to run towards the door to come into the lobby. When she got there....

Peanut: "Hi mommy"

Mommy: "Peanut, you're supposed to be in there doing your gymnastics with the other kids"

Peanut: "I know, I was just checking if you're doing ok. Are you doing ok?"

Mommy: "Yes"

Peanut ran back in and re-joined her class.

mustache-beard

Peanut: "Daddy, you drink beard (beer) all the time. You drink beard and then you get a beard mustache, you have a beard mustache"

purchasing woes

Mommy and daddy were talking about the possibility of moving, buying a new house...

Peanut: "But how can you buy a house? A house is too big to fit inside the store and pay for it like groceries"

Gymnastics class

Today was Peanut's first Gymnastics class, before we went we ate our lunch and Peanut was trying her best to be patient...

Peanut: "When are we going to go to gynmastics?"

Mommy: "As soon as you're done your lunch we'll go"

Peanut: "Can't we just go now mommy? I'm a little silly at that"

Mommy: "What's silly?"

Peanut: "YOU!"

blackberries

Peanut and mommy were having lunch and mommy had put out a plate of fruits including strawberries, raspberries, oranges and blackberries. Peanut was naming all the colors of the different fruits and when it came to the blackberries:

Peanut: "these ones are kind of purplish-blackilish"

dinnertime woes

During breakfast one morning Peanut turns to mom with a sad face and says:

Peanut: "I don't know which dinner we're going to have"

Mommy: "What do you mean? Why are you talking about dinner? It's breakfast time"

Peanut: "Because I haven't thought about it and I don't know what dinner we're going to have"

a couple of three

Peanut was proudly telling daddy about how she pooped on the potty...

Peanut: "Daddy! I had three poops on the potty!"

Daddy: "That's great! Three!? That's a lot!"

Peanut: "No daddy, three's not a lot, three's only a couple!"

bubble bath

Peanut was in the bath playing with her toys when...

Peanut: "Oops, I tooted."

Mommy giggles

Peanut: "It stinks hey?"

world travellers

Mommy was driving Peanut home from day care and had gone a different way home than usual...

Peanut: "Why are you going this way?"

Mommy: "Just because, it still takes us home"

Peanut: "No, I don't think so. This different world is the wrong way. We can't get home from this world"

Hero

Mommy and Peanut were driving in the car, mommy had put up one of those window sun block things on Peanut's baby brother's window of the car...

Peanut: "What's that thing for on the window?"

Mommy: "It's to block out the sun from shining on him"

Peanut: "Why do you want to block the sun?"

Mommy: "Because it can burn him"

Peanut: "But I could get burned too"

Mommy: "I got one for your side too, I just haven't put it up yet"

Peanut: "Awww, why can't you put mine up tomorrow?"

Mommy: "I can put it up when we get home sweety"

Peanut: "You can?! Mom, you're a hero!"

the big red invisible dog

Peanut got a movie of "Clifford the big red dog" and has watched it 4 times already, and we're sure many many more to come. As a result, the following conversations have taken place:

Peanut: "I wish I could be Emily Elizabeth (the little girl who owns clifford)"

Mommy: "But then you wouldn't be Peanut, Emily Elizabeth doesn't have me as her mommy and daddy as her daddy or a baby brother or live in this house or have all your toys."

Peanut: "That's ok."

Mommy: "Well, I'd miss you, so I'm happy that you're Peanut and not Emily Elizabeth"

Peanut: (in a come-on-already-mommy-tone) "Mommy, it's just for pretend that I want to be Emily Elizabeth!"

The next day...

First thing in the morning Peanut woke up telling me that she was going to pretend to be Emily Elizabeth, and she went to her window, opened her curtains and said "Good morning Clifford! I'll be right down boy!" just like in the movie. Mommy was taking her to day care this morning because mommy had a dr. appointment to go to. The morning went on like this:

Peanut: "Mommy, can I let Clifford inside cause it's raining?"

Mommy: "I thought he was a big dog, he doesn't fit in the house"

Peanut: "No, he can come inside."

Mommy: "Ok, I guess so then"

Peanut: "You can't see him cause he's invisible"

Mommy: "Ok. Eat your breakfast cause we have to go soon"

Peanut: (Puts pretend breakfast on the floor for Clifford. Then finishes up her own breakfast)

Mommy: "Ok, all done? It's time to go so put your shoes on"

Peanut: "First I have to find Clifford. (walks around the house yelling) Clifford, Clifford, where are you? Clifford! It's hard to find him cause he's invisible!"

We get out to the car...

Peanut: "Mommy, can you put Clifford in the back?"

Mommy: "ok sweety"

Peanut: (as we start driving off) "Did you buckle him in mommy?"

Mommy: "Yup, he's all buckled up"

We get to day care and pull into the driveway. Mommy unbuckles Peanut's seat...

Peanut: "Can you please let Clifford out"

Mommy: (Playing along, pretends to let Clifford out) "Come on out Clifford, we're here. He jumped over the seat, he's out now"

Peanut: "No mommy, he's really big, you have to open the back (we have a hatchback trunk)"

actually-properly

Mommy and Daddy were talking to Peanut about what she wants to be for Halloween this year. Last year she was a pumpkin and the year before that a ghost...

Peanut: "Maybe I can be a princess!"

Mommy: "Yeah, you could, or you could be something else, you're a princess every day"

Peanut: "Maybe I could be a witch!"

Mommy: "Yes, you could wear a witch hat"

Peanut: "Or maybe I could be a robot!"

Mommy and Daddy: "Yes, that would be a great costume!"

Mommy: "You could say 'I-am-a-robot-trick-or-treat' (said in a robot voice)"

Peanut: "No, I don't want to say that, I want to say 'Trick or Treat' actually properly!"

one of many musicals...

Peanut is ALWAYS putting on musicals for hours on end where she just sings and walks around in circles and makes up the words as she goes. I decided to write one of these musicals down...

Peanut: "Mom Mom Mom, don't be blue
don't be blue on your lips
Mom mom mom, don't be blue
don't be blue on your neck
Mom mom mom, don't be blue
don't be blue on your face
Mom mom mom, don't be blue
don't be blue on your arm
Don't be fair to the other kids
Mad kids say bad words"

puzzled

Peanut got 2 new puzzles from the store which she was talking about how excited she was to work on after dinner...

Peanut: "Can you open my puzzles for me?" (because they are sealed in plastic)

Mommy and Daddy: "Of course we can"

Peanut: "Cause it's hard work for a small kid like me with no one to help"

Dr. Peanut

Playing with her doctor set...

Peanut: "Here, let me check your heart" (puts play stethescope to mommy's neck...) "Oh, you have a throat in your cough"

Mommy: "Oh no, am I going to be ok?"

Peanut: "Yes, you just need lungs"

When I grow up...

Mommy was reading a book to Peanut about Firefighters, Peanut had once told mommy and daddy that she wanted to be a Firefighter when she grew up...

Peanut: "I like firefighters"

Mommy: "I know, that's what you want to be when you grow up right?"

Peanut: "No, I want to be an ADULT when I grow up!"

we don't need to worry about it

Peanut came up to mommy and in a very fast matter of fact voice stated the following:

Peanut: "Mommy, I kind of spilt some water from my cup"

Mommy: "Where?"

Peanut: "On the table but it's ok, it's no big deal, we don't need to worry about it, it'll dry in a couple of days, it's ok, we don't need to worry, no it's ok"

I can drive

Mommy was driving the car with Peanut and her brother in the back seat...

Peanut: "You're a good driver mommy"

Mommy: "Thank you Peanut""

Peanut: "And daddy is a good driver too, you two drive good cause you're adults. And even when I'm an adult I can drive like you. In a little while I'll grow to adult and then I can drive the car."

mix up

Peanut was playing with her little people characters, where she lines up all of them and they all have conversations and get grouped together in pairs, she's really very meticulous with her organizing of her toys. Mommy overhears two of the characters conversation...

Peanut: "According to my research...I'm a little mixed up"

baby bum

Mommy was changing 3 week old baby brother's diaper...

Peanut: "Awww, look at his cute little bum! He's really cute mommy, we can keep him. I guess we'll keep him"

Mommy: "Of course we will sweety"

Peanut: "Yes cause he's our baby. Unless he stops being a baby, then he'll have to go"

smoovie

Mommy made a smoothy for Daddy, since he had his wisdom teeth pulled and couldn't eat solids. Daddy shared his smoothy with Peanut...

Peanut: "Mmmm, this is really good!"

Mommy: "It's called a smoothy"

Peanut: "A smoovie? Look, I've got a smoovie mustache!"

brave little one

Peanut was going to sleep at night, she loves to stay up and read her books for hours on end. After long enough, daddy turned off the light in the hallway and told her to go to sleep...

Peanut: "LIGHT, LIGHT!"

Daddy: "No sweety, it's time to go to sleep, the light is off now"

Peanut: "Ok, you're right daddy. I'm ok. I'm brave, I'm brave"

Onion fly

At home we had a minor infestation of fruit flies...

Peanut: "Mommy, there's a bug!"

Mommy: "Yes, it's ok, it's a fruit fly, it likes the fruit, there's lots of them"

Later on that week we're at the grocery store in the vegetable section...

Peanut: "Mommy, there's bugs!"

Mommy: "Yup, they're fruit flies"

Peanut: "No mommy, they're on the onions, they're onion flies!"

So many flies

Daddy: "Man, it's unbelievable how many newspapers and flyers we get in the mail"

Peanut: "Ya, there's so many newspapers and flies!"

observations

At the park there was one white swing and one black swing...

Peanut: "Look, there's one white one and one black one.....That's interesting"

J-E-LL-O

Peanut helped mommy make Jello for daddy after he had his wisdom teeth taken out. Mommy added the boiling water and Peanut added the cold water and stirred it for mommy...

Peanut: "Is the Jello good?"

Daddy: "Yup"

Peanut: "Do you like my mix of the cold water? That's how I made Jello with mommy"

poor soggy daddy

Daddy had to get his wisdom teeth taken out. When we went to pick him up after his surgery....

Mommy: "Peanut, we're going to pick up daddy now, he had his teeth taken out at the dentist"

Peanut: "Why'd they take his teeth out?"

Mommy: "Because they were hurting him, so they had to take them out. But he had to have surgery so he's gonna be a little groggy"

On the way home after picking up daddy....

Peanut: "Daddy, I hope your teeth feel better soon, you need to rest so that your teeth can feel better. Mommy, remember you told me that daddy would be soggy"

Mommy: "I said he'd be groggy"

Peanut: "Oh, roggy."

Worker man and his machine

We were sitting in Tim Hortons having a sprinkle donut and a chocolate milk when a construction worker came in who was pretty dirty...

Peanut: "Mommy, that man's too dirty to eat food"

Mommy: "Don't worry about other people, sometimes daddy's dirty too when he comes home from work because they work outside all day"

Peanut: watching him leave and get into his car, which was a 2 door red brand new Honda Civic, "Mommy, he can't get into a car, he's a worker man, they're supposed to drive in machines not cars!"

importance of saying goodbye

In the car we were listening to a Feist song, the chorus was "Don't have to say goodbye"...

Peanut: "Mommy, the lady just said you don't have to say goodbye, why'd she say that? It's important to say goodbye!"

too busy

S: "You're such a great big sister and big helper for mommy, will you help me when I have a baby?"

Peanut: "No, I'm busy helping mommy with our baby, you'll have to get J to help you with your baby"

ew-lemon

Mommy bought a bag of assorted flavour suckers for Peanut. The first time she wanted one she chose a yellow one...

Peanut: "I don't think I want this one anymore, I don't really like yellow, it tastes like lemon and I don't like lemon."

Mommy: "Ok, then you don't have to finish it"

Peanut: "Tomorrow when I get one I'll take a red one or a purple one or a green one."

The next day she asked for a purple one. After eating it for a bit the paper stick became soggy and bent.

Daddy: "Ok sweety, take a few more tastes and then it's done because it's breaking and it's not safe"

Peanut: "I guess tomorrow I'll have a red one cause I kind of broke the purple one"

when you're older

Mommy and daddy were telling Peanut about how she was at our wedding in mommy's tummy. Daddy mentioned to mommy that we'll have to keep telling her the truth - even when she's 15 - that we were pregnant at our wedding...

Peanut: "Don't tell me everything, save some for when I'm older"

marrying day

We went for a walk after dinner on our anniversary with the 2 kids, and bumped into some friends along the way.

Peanut: "Are you coming over for some cake?"

Friends: "Did you have cake?"

Peanut: "Yes, to celebrate the marrying of mommy and daddy today"

whistle while you work...or don't

Daddy was whistling very loudly, something he does often, mommy asked him to stop after a few minutes...

Peanut: "Ya daddy, stop, I don't like your singing."

Daddy: "Man, you guys are so mean, you gang up on me."

Peanut: "Cause you do all those things, you leave your bowl on the couch (which he had done with his cereal bowl that morning and she wouldn't let him live it down) and sing really loud all the time and you don't listen."

2 daddys

As mommy was coming down the stairs, Peanut thought she was daddy and called mommy daddy...

Peanut: "Oops, I called you daddy, but that's not good cause you might turn into daddy and then there's be 2 daddys and no mommy!"

phone calls

talking into her play phone...

Peanut: "It's so wonderful to see you."

Girl power

Daddy was being silly and singing Spice Girls...

Daddy: "Tell me what you want what you really really want, tell me what you want..."

Peanut: From the other room in a bossy kind of annoyed tone, "Mommy, tell daddy what you really want!"

New favorite joke - what a ham

Peanut: "Why do ducks fly out in the winter?"

Mommy: "I don't know, why?"

Peanut: "Because they get their ham!"

make you laugh

While getting in trouble for not listening, she decided to try a new tactic...

Peanut: "Mommy, oh, sorry I mean Daddy, I'm just trying to make you laugh, that's why I said that, mommy, oh I mean daddy"

World traveller

This happens pretty much everytime we drive downtown...

Peanut: "Look, we're in China"

Mommy: "Have you ever been to China?"

Peanut: "Yes, when I was younger"

like people

Mommy: "You're my muffin"

Peanut: "Mommy, I'm not like food, I'm like people!"

morning breath

Peanut came into our bed one morning and daddy was tickling her. He said something close to her face....

Peanut: "Daddy (plugs her nose) your breath is HOT."

boys and bums

Our day care got a puppy. When meeting him for the first time he rolled onto his back while she was petting him, she realized he was a boy...

Peanut: "Look mommy, he has a bum just like Koda!"

prince mommy

Mommy is looking in the mirror getting ready in the morning...

Peanut: "Do I look great too mommy?"

Mommy: "You sure do"

Peanut: "Do I look like a princess?"

Mommy: "Yea you always do"

Peanut: "I look like a princess and you look like a prince"

Mommy: "I thought princes were boys?"

Peanut: "Yup, they are"

Mommy: "Well, thanks I guess"

Peanut: "You're welcome prince"

Poopy town

Mommy told Peanut all about "poopy town" which is where the poop goes when you flush the toilet. The idea was that it would help her to poop on the potty because she needs to help the poop get home to poopy town where it's mommy and daddy poop live so that it can be with its family. She really liked the idea, and we discussed how we can't visit poopy town cause it's dirty and it's only for poops...

Peanut: "Why are you holding me?"

Daddy: "So you don't fall into the toilet"

Peanut: "If I fall in will I go down to poopy town?"

Daddy: "Yup!"

Peanut: "And then I'll turn into poop? forever?"

big sister duties

Peanut: "I'm a big sister, I have a baby brother!"

Library clerk: "Oh, so you're going to help out mommy with your new brother?"

Peanut: "Yup, I help with his bath, and to change him, I pass mommy his diapers, but I don't change his poopy diapers, that's mommy's job!"

you know what you don't say?

Peanut: "You know what you don't say? You don't say 'oh my God'. You don't say that"

Mommy: "I know, so you shouldn't say it now"

Peanut: "You can only say 'oh my God' when you're praying, you can't say 'oh my God' any other time."

Mommy: "I know, and you just said it 3 times and you're not praying"

Peanut: smiles mischeviously, I swear she knows exactly what she's doing.

S-H-I- Oops

Peanut: "Shit!"

Mommy: "What did you just say?"

Peanut: "Shit"

Mommy: "That's a bad word, you don't say that. Where did you hear that?"

Peanut: makes a face that makes me instantly realize, it was probably from me.

Mommy: "Did you hear that from mommy?"

Peanut: "Yes"

Mommy: "oops. Well, you shouldn't say it and neither should mommy, I'm sorry. But please don't say it anymore"

Peanut: "Ok"

About a couple of weeks later, as we're walking out the door...

Peanut: "Shit, oops, I said a bad word"

Mommy: What did you say?"

Peanut: "Shit"

Mommy: to daddy "don't laugh"

helping mommy drive

in the winter, in construction, on the way to day care, in a rush as usual...

Mommy: yelling to another car (I promise I didn't swear) "What are you doing?! You can't just stop! Come on!"

Peanut: "Who are you talking to mommy?"

Mommy: "The other car, he's doing stuff he's not supposed to and he's frustrating me"

Peanut: "Mommy, you drive and I'll talk to the other cars. Get out of the way other cars, mommy needs to drive and you can't do that so get out of the way"

Mommy: "Aw, thanks Peanut, you're the best! I love you"

Peanut: "Oh thank you mommy!"

talk about the things

sitting down to dinner Peanut decides we should say grace...

Peanut: "Daddy, you need to talk about the things to God."

Daddy: "Oh, you're right, what should we thank Him for?"

Peanut: "We should thank Him for friends, toys, good sleeps, all those things"

grocery store buds

In the grocery store we see a little girl who she's met at the park before...

Peanut: "Mommy, it's my best friend from the park!"

Mommy: "Oh I see, say hello"

Peanut: "Hi."

The other little girl is shy and only smiles.

Peanut: "Are you shopping with your mommy? I'm shopping with my mommy too"

Mommy: "Ok, we're going to the next aisle, say bye"

Peanut: "Bye"

A couple of aisles over we meet them again.

Peanut: "Hi! Mommy, she's back"

the girl and her mom are going to the next aisle.

Peanut: "Bye. Oh, I LOVE YOU!"

complimentary my dear

at the cash at Winners...

Peanut: talking to the cashier "I'm getting a new hat and bathing suit. It's pink."

Cashier: "It's really cute, I like it"

Peanut: "I really like your hair, and I like your voice."

dot com

Peanut: while playing her computer learning game it tells her to ask her parents to check their account online, to access new levels and learning challenges (which means you need to sign up to become a member and pay a monthly fee) "Daddy, can you get my parents to go online to www dot jump start world dot com?"

beard

Peanut: "Mommy, only daddy can drink beard (beer) cause he has a beard"

knock knock

Peanut: "Knock knock"

Mommy: "Who's there?"

Peanut: "Orange"

Mommy: "Orange who?"

Peanut: "Orange Mommy! ha ha ha. Don't cry it's only a joke!"

what a ham!

Peanut: telling one of her jokes "You know why the chicken flew away for the winter? Because he was a ham!" laughs histerically

ridiculous music

Peanut: "Mommy, daddy is listening to his ridiculous music again" daddy was listening to some Elton John

"snorty"

Peanut: to a random stranger "you know what my dog's name is? Koda, but I call him snorty"

I made it myself!

Peanut: "Look what I'm eating" sticks out her tongue

Mommy: "What is it?"

Peanut: "It's my boogers"

Mommy: "That's gross, don't do that"

Peanut: "But I made them myself!"

potty training - ish

Peanut: while changing her own pull up "This is my bum. It's not a long bum, but it has a moustache"

so much to do

Daddy: "Maybe we should build a big house in the country so that Koda will have a lot of room to run around. Will you help me build a house?"

Peanut: "Daddy, first I have to help mommy bake a cake then I will help you build the house ok?"

Stylish

Peanut: holding head up and literally looking down her nose with her eyes squinted "Mommy, this is my STYLISH face"

thank heaven for little girls

Peanut: "Where's heaven?"

Day care provider: "Heaven is up in the sky with God and all the angels"

Peanut: "Oh I want to go there. I'll need a yellow dress and some wings"

long story short

Peanut: "Mommy, when I had the hat on my head I bonked my head into the door for the basement"

Mommy: "When did that happen?"

Peanut: "I can't tell you"

Mommy: "Why not? You can tell me anything sweety"

Peanut: "I can't tell you cause it's a long story"

wormies forever

Daddy: "You finish your food and then we'll have a wormy together" referring to a gummy worm candy

Peanut: "for ever? You will have wormies with me forever?"

Daddy's little girl

Peanut: "Daddy, can you keep an eye on me?"

Daddy: "I always do."

Peanut: "for ever and ever?"

table etiquette

Peanut: "When you eat your food you have to lick your mustache and then you eat some more food."

telling it like it is

As another child's parents is passing us in the morning on her way out, she says good bye and have a great day to us.

Peanut: "She has a moustache"

Mommy: checks that went unheard and whispers "Don't say that, that's very rude."

Peanut: in a louder voice than the first statement "Well then, what's on her face?"

God and Jesus are pretty cool

Peanut: "Mommy, do you know who made the world great?"

Mommy: "Who did?"

Peanut: "God did. God and Jesus did. They made so many great things in the world like toys and friends and houses and animals. God is great. God and Jesus are cool."

I'll take care of it Daddy

At breakfast Koda, the puppy, is trying to steal some food, which Daddy is correcting by telling him no.

Peanut: "He's just being a frikken dog daddy, I could slam his face for you."

Adventures with the dog

After coming home to a disaster in the house and no puppy in sight, hearing small whimpers from upstairs, where he's not allowed, finding him locked in the bathroom and trying to get him downstairs quickly before he pees and realizing I was completely unsuccessful after stepping in his pee on the carpet, I had a 'forgot I was a mommy and she's within ear shot' moment, and I said "Awww, he FRIKKEN peed!"

Mommy: "Please close thge door to your room so he doesn't go in there and come downstairs."

Peanut: "But mommy I can't!"

Mommy: "Why not?"

Peanut: "Because he frikken peed there!"

Eh-so-fo-gus and new-trents

Daddy: "Sit down to eat your dinner."

Peanut: "But daddy, I just drank too much juice and now I'm full. Do you know where your food goes? You put it in your mouth and it goes down your esophagus and into your belly and it stops there. Your body takes the nutrients and then it goes down to your toes."

colds and hugs

Peanut: "Mommy, you have to kiss my cold."

Mommy: "But then I'll catch it."

Peanut: "Yeah, take it from me."

so mommy kisses her

Peanut: "Now, hug it too."

big girl room and big demands

Daddy: "How do you like your new room?"

Peanut: looks around and admires the paint on the wall, the trim, the crown moulding, then notices the door stop behind the door which has recieved some splatters of white paint "It's beautiful! Daddy there's paint on this, you need to clean it so it sparkles or buy a new one."

theory and common sense

"mommy is having a girl because girls have babies and boys have beards"

the premise

Kids have a knack for saying just the right thing at the right time, with blatant honesty and not a care in the world as to the results of their remarks. At times, it can be downright embarrasing, but for the most part it's simply hilarious and humbles us as adults who constantly have to watch what we say and think before we speak.

I became a mother 3 and a half years ago. For the first year as a parent you are unable to communicate with your child, aside from your own depiction of the meaning of their various cries and grunts. As a parent, you long for the day when your child looks at you and speaks to you, tells you what's wrong, what they need, how they feel, and what their thinking. Then, finally the day comes and then almost instantly, without warning, you are bombarded with questions about everything and anything. Why is the sky blue is only the beginning. Quickly you find that the sweet innocent baby you longed to communicate with is quite the chatterbox. You start to have to watch what you say in front of them, because they are like sponges and pick up the words you say AND understand the context to use them. They become little adults without the learned skill of etiquette in conversation, without understanding that some words can hurt, come out wrong and some things are just not mentioned or discussed. To them, they are simply curious, stating a fact or telling you how they see it. Completely honest, without any regard, innocently hilarious.

This is the world as seen through the eyes of my 3 and a half year old daughter.