boy guides....?

Peanut has joined girl guides and is enjoying the fun she's having, which is leaving Bbears a little left out....

Bbears: "I want to go to sparks too"

Mommy: "Well buddy, it's only for girls, and you're too little right now anyway"

Bbears: "I know, I'll put on a dress and dress up to look like Dora and then I can go to sparks! That's perfect"

Chinese for Peanut

Peanut: "Mommy, my friend from school told me she used to live in China"

Mommy: "no sweety, she didn't, I know her family"

Peanut: "No mommy, it's true, she lived there cause she can talk in Chinese!"

Mommy: "Really? What did she say?"

Peanut: "Well, I don't understand cause I don't speak Chinese but she told me what it meant in English, she said a bunch of stuff"

Mommy: "Well, I'm sorry but I think she may be pulling your leg sweets"

Peanut: "No, it's true! She even said my name in Chinese!"

the great idea

Bbears had gotten in trouble for not listening, so he went up to his room to pout, when mommy overheard him talking to himself trying to get mommy to not be upset with him.....

Bbears: "Mommy is cross. I know, that's the perfect idea, I take mommy's pillow and I bash it to her head and then she not be cross anymore cause its so funny"

yucker

Bbears: (eating a sucker from his halloween candy) "mmmmmmm"

Mommy: "Is it yummy?"

Bbears: "Nope!"

chili heat

Bbears has a phobia of vegetables, its something that we're trying to work on but this boy is very strong willed in his utter and absolute dislike of them. One night at dinner, which was delicious homemade chili....

Bbears: (picks up a kidney bean) "What's this vegetable?"

Mommy: "That's not a vegetable, it's a bean, it's really yummy, try it"

Bbears: "No, its not yummy, it makes me on fire"

bunky stink

Bbears: "What's that smell? it smells bunky. That means weird"

Every toy on every commercial he ever sees....

Bbears: "MOMMY!! THAT ONE!!! THAT ONE MOMMY!"

not quite right

Mommy was busy with the baby so daddy got Bbears ready for bed and in his bed. Bbears was waiting for mommy to come in to get him to bed. When mommy came in the room, Bbears was sitting up in his bed looking concerned....

Mommy: "What's wrong buddy?"

Bbears: "Mommy, something's not quite right"

Mommy: "What's that?"

Bbears: "Something's not quite right. I didn't read a story yet"

bedtime routine

Every night after mommy reads Bbears his books and says our prayers, Bbears has to say the same thing, and mommy has to respond with the same answer, or he will get upset. Such a child of routine...

Bbears: "Mommy, tomorrow I gonna go outside and ride my Dora bike and play outside on the street but watch to the cars so the cars don't get under to me"

Mommy: "Yes, but that won't happen because you'll be careful"

Bbears: "Why?"

Mommy: "Because I love you and I don't want you to get hurt"

big moma!

Bbears: "Mommy, i like you, you're so big and cool"

In control

One night at the dinner table while we were trying to have a conversation with Peanut...

Bbears: "Everybody calm down! Everybody, Calm down!!"

bean-bies

Bbears still has an obsession with boobies, though he's learned to control himself for the most part and usually keeps his hands to himself. One night he forgot....

Mommy: "Are you going to like boobies this much when you grow up?"

Bbears: "Ya! I love boobies! They are like beans!"

toot toot

Bbears was playing when he let out a long toot....

Mommy: "Was that a toot?"

Bbears: "No....It was three toots"

dvd experience

Bbears wanted to watch a movie, he picked one of his Thomas the Train ones...

Bbears: "Mommy, I want to watch this one, this is Thomas and friends dvd experience"

the policy

Peanut came home from school during the first week....

Peanut: "Mommy, I need you to tell me what the policy is, cause I don't know what it is but I really have to know"

Mommy: "What policy?"

Peanut: "I don't know, but I have to know what it is cause the principal said hands off the policy, but how do I make sure I don't touch it if I don't even know what it is?"

Mommy: "Oh, hands off policy?"

Peanut: "Ya, so you have to show me what the policy is so I don't ever touch it"

lil brother love

Mommy was talking to Bbears at bedtime while holding his baby sister 'Wowo' (as he calls her), his big sister had been away for a week and he was missing her....

Bbears: "Wowo is cute"

Mommy: "Yes she is, and so are you, and Peanut, all my kids are super cute"

Bbears: "I cute, Wowo's cute, but not Peanut"

Mommy: "You don't think Peanut is cute?"

Bbears: "No, Peanut's too big, she's not cute, she's pretty"

Mommy: "You think she's pretty (heart melting)"

Bbears: "Yes, she's pretty, she has a pretty dress, she's so cool!"

sisterly love

Peanut was spending some time away with her grandparents, so she called to talk to her little brother who she missed and who equally missed her...

Peanut: "What are you wearing Bbears?"

Mommy: "He's wearing a striped shirt and his beige shorts"

Peanut: "Oh, I remember that shirt and those shorts, I'm imagining it in my mind right now, I miss those shorts"

tootmorning

Bbears had woken up but was waiting in his room for mommy and daddy to open the gate so he could get out. He called out for mommy and daddy to open the gate, we told him just a minute, then daddy ripped one, quite loudly...

Daddy: (toots from bedroom)

Bbears: (from his own room) "What?"

chocolate poop

Bbears was looking at a Thomas the Tank book he had found at his cousins' house called "Percy and the chocolate crunch" where Percy the train gets covered in a chocolatey mess...

Bbears: "Percy's all dirty, he's got poop"

Mommy: "It's not poop, it's chocolate"

Then Aunt H comes in the room...

Bbears: "See, it's Percy's chocolate crunch, it's not poop, it's chocolate"

Bbear-isms

Grocery store = grocery "storm"

Sunscreen = sun "scream"

Deisel 10 (from Thomas the train) = Deisel "tent"

birthday dinner

Mommy: "It's your special day since it's your birthday, so what would like for dinner tonight?"

Bbears: "A cheese ball!"

grumpypants

Bbreas snapped at mommy because he was being impatient and wanted help fixing a toy he'd demolished...

Mommy: "Don't be rude"

Bbears: "I'm not being rude, I'm grumpy!"

mommy's birthday

First thing when the kids woke up on mommy's birthday morning, here's what they each said:

Peanut: "Happy birthday mommy!"

Bbears: "Mommy, I had a dirty poop"

crush

Peanut was outside playing with her friends when she came back home to tell us something...

Peanut: "Daddy, Noah just told me that he has a crush on me"

Daddy: "Oh, well what did you say?"

Peanut: "Well, I said it quietly so he wouldn't hear but I said 'Awkward'"

grand-mommy

Bbears is celebrating his 3rd birthday soon, mommy was telling him all about this...

Mommy: "You're going to be 3 soon! Your birthday is coming up"

BBears: "Yeah!"

Peanut: "Is his birthday the next birthday?"

Mommy: "Well, first it's my birthday, the Bbears"

Peanut: "How old will you be?"

Mommy: "32"

Peanut: "Is that old?"

Mommy: "Kinda"

Peanut: "Are you going to look like a grandma?"

sundae poops

We all went out for some ice cream, while we were enjoying it, Peanut had to use the ladies room...which mommy had specifically asked right before we had left the house to which she had said no.

Mommy: "I just asked you before we left, did you have to then?"

Peanut: "No, it just came now. It's because of the sundae I'm eating. Sundae's give you energy and energy makes you poop or pee."

Mommy: "really?"

Peanut: "Yes, sometimes the ice cream melts and that turns into pee and sometimes it just goes into a little ball and that's poop"

scratchin bobos

Bbears has a little problem with picking his bobos and scratching mosquito bites till they turn into mountainous bobos to then continuously scratch, it's a neverending cycle. So, he regularly gets told not to scratch his bobos. One day he spots a bobo on mommy's leg...

Bbears: "Mommy, you not to scratch you bobo, ok? You understand mommy? Look at me mommy, do you understand?"

oh bug

Mommy may have slipped a bad word in front of Bbears....luckily he can't quite get the pronounciation right....
While watching Dora on TV, Bbears always asks if another one is coming on because on the dvds there are 3 or 4 episodes...

Bbears: "mommy, is another one coming on?"

Mommy: "Nope, this is on TV, there's only 1 episode"

Bbears: "Oh bug!"

Napaneze

We were on our way home from a visit with family...

Peanut: "Where are we?"

Mommy: "In a town called Napanee"

Peanut: "Oh. How do you say 'hello' in Napaneze?"

This is why

Bbears has a new response to his questions, no matter what the answer is...

Bbears: "Mommy, what's that" / "Mommy, what are you doing?"

Mommy: (doesn't really matter what the answer is, today I responded with, "it's just a thing")

Bbears: "Oooooh, that's why"

mother nature...or something like it..

When we had a big storm, Peanut had a lot of questions about why it was happening...

Peanut: "So, why does mother weather want to storm on us?"

Power outage

We had a big storm the other day and it caused the power to go off, Peanut was a little confused...

Peanut: "Why did all the lights just go out?"

Mommy: "Because there's a power outage from the storm"

Peanut: "But the sink's power still works?"

ocean

Mommy bought a new pool floaty for both Peanut and Bbears, a queen swan and a lightning McQueen, to use in grandma and grandpa's pool. Of course they had to be blown up the second we got home...

Bbears: "Please, I want to go to grandma and grandpa's ocean"

anything's a song

Walking through the garden centre, the kids were playing around and dropping stuff on the ground, including Bbear's sippy cup...

Mommy: "Guys, don't drop things on the ground here, there's bad stuff on the ground like manure."

Peanut: "What's manure?"

Mommy: "It helps plants grow, but it's actually animal poop so it's bad for us"

Bbears: singing, "Animal poop, animal poop, animal poop..."

The singing continued throughout the shopping, while standing in line at the cash, while loading up our purchases in the van, and even a few days later while at the dr. office for our checkup.

Queen barbie

Peanut was playing with her barbies and mommy overheard the following discussion between barbie a and barbie b...

Peanut:
Barbie a: "No, you're fired, I fired you, but I can unfire you"
Barbie b: "Can you do that? Is that allowed?"
Barbie a: "I can do anything, I'm the queen of England"

potty time

So we're trying to convince Bbears to use the potty, he's almost 3 and has NO interest in it at all. Mommy knows he has a huge sweettooth for marshmallows, so the attempted bribery is on...

Bbears: "I want a marshmallow"

Mommy: "Well, if you use the potty like a big boy, you can have a marshmallow"

Bbears: "I don't want the potty, I want to use the toilet"

Mommy: "But you said the big toilet hurts you cause it's too big so that's why you need the smaller potty"

Bbears: "Well, I want to use the medium one"

hunger wants

Bbears was hungry, as usual, and was looking in the pantry cupboard when mommy walked into the kitchen...


Mommy: "What are you looking for?"

Bbears: "I want, I want...I want.... I want something to want"

overheard

Peanut and Bbears were going to start playing when mommy overheard....


Peanut: "Ok, do you want to be Peach or Todd?"

Mommy: "Who's Peach and who's Todd?"

Peanut: "We're playing Mario (Nintendo) and I'm going to be Princess Peach and Bbears can be Todd"

Mommy: "Who's Todd?"

Peanut: "The little mushroom guy, you know, Todd!"

(his name is really Toad)

buzzzzz

We were playing out in the yard when...


Bbears: "Mommy, mommy! There's a bee!"

Mommy: "It's ok bud, just don't bug it and it'll go away."

Bbears: "It's goinna swipe my hat!"

B - for baseball - bears

Peanut started T-ball, so much fun! Bbears was playing catch with his glove and ball while we watched his big sis play her first game. He would throw the ball up and close his eyes in fear of it hittin him as it came back down, which of course meant that he couldn't see it to catch it. Very cute.

Bbears: (after missing his first catch) "Not quite, try again"

not cool mom

Mommy was dancing to some tunes for Peanut and Bbears. Peanut didn't look too impressed.

Mommy: "You don't like my dance moves?"

Peanut: "Well, it's not that I don't like them, it's just that they're really not that cool"

southern charm

Mommy and Peanut were playing games at lunch time, trying to get Bbears to eat his food, and despite the don't play with your food rule of thumb, we were, well, playing with our food. Mommy was putting the food on the fork and then pretending the fork was an airplane, train, car, boat, shopping cart, old man, jogger, etc. Peanut decided she wanted to be an old lady, mommy was helping her to try to sound like a really old lady...

Peanut: "Oh, I'm an old lady walking"

Mommy: "You have to make your voice sound higher and more shakey, and say things like 'you whippersnapper kids these days with your TVs and your video games. When I was a kid we only had a piece of string and a rock to play with'".

Peanut: "ok, 'you kids these days, with your TVs, when I was a kid I only had a piece of string and an ice cube to play with'" (at this point she had taken on a southern accent)

Mommy: "Oh so you're from the deep south are y'all?"

Peanut: (still in southern character) "well, it's just that I don't really know how to talk"

boy o boy, he's a boy

Daddy was on the computer checking out some sports sites to get the scores and updates. Bbears was hanging out looking at the computer screen. At the bottom of the screen there was an add for something featuring some scantily clad ladies (not that kind of website - don't worry)...

Bbears: (pointing to ladies with a huge smile on his face) "I want this one daddy, this one, oh yea, this one!"

when I grow up

Daddy: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Peanut: "A rock star! But then when I'm a parent I'll be a doctor, or a vet because they help doggies and I love doggies!"

one, two, me!

Bbears: "Mommy, I hungry"

Mommy: "Me too"

Bbears: "Me three!"

Great big gate

Bbears has a gate up at his door at night so that he doesn't escape his room and tumble down the stairs while we're all asleep. So when he wakes up in the morning, he usually calls for mommy or daddy to come take the gate down to set him free. But one morning he coined a new title for the gate...

Bbears: "Mommy, I want to get out from the big wall of China"

Egos

We were having Ego waffles for breakfast that mommy bought, Bbears had never tried them before and is sometimes finicky about his pancakes, so mommy wasn't sure if he'd like them or not...

Bbears: "I love this cupcake!"

g'nights

Mommy: "Goodnight my sweet prince"

Bbears: "Goodnight mommy true princess"

(I love this guy!)

shopping

Bbears: "All done at the grocery storm"

Peanut's back

Peanut: "Mommy, can we go to Disney World Vacations for 5 days and 4 nights?"

carry you

On the way back to the house after dropping big sister Peanut off at the bus stop for school, mommy is wearing the baby bjorn carrier with newborn baby sister in tow...
Bbear: "Mommy, I carry you?" (which means 'carry me')

Mommy: "Sorry bud, I can't, I'm carrying your baby sister"

Bbear: (stops on the spot and points to the street) "Put baby down mommy"

lil bro's turn

So, it begins already, lil bro is quick to step up to the role of hilarious kid...

Bbear: "Slam Bang Bang!" (hitting daddy on the head with a DVD case)

Daddy: "Ouch, hey, that's not nice, no hitting. What do you say?"

Bbear: "Thank you?"

Daddy: "No, what do you say?"

Bbear: (pauses to think, then bends down and whispers in daddy's ear) "Go to sleep daddy....go to sleep"

not retiring, quite yet...

So, I know it's been a while and the posts are getting fewer and farther between, Peanut is just getting too darn smart as she gets older and the things coming out of her mouth are surprising due to their sheer intelligence not so much their absolute cute ironic misconstrued childlike view of things anymore. It's sad, but at the same time her lil bro Bbear is talking more and more each day, so it won't be long before this 2 and a half year old prince takes over his big sister's blog. So, to the readers, we are not retiring, we are taking a mid-sabbatacal and will return shortly with the views of Peanut's lil brother, who idolizes his big sis and has a strong, amazing and silly personailty of his own so there's bound to be some fun reading ahead.

Thanks,

The Mommy

matern-tity photos

Mommy had a friend who's a photographer come over to take some professional pictures of our family, and then to take some maternity photos of mommy who's expecting a baby brother or sister for Peanut and BBear. Mommy had on a sports bra type top for the photos to show the belly...

Peanut: "Mommy, how come he's taking pictures of your boobies?"

bed head

Peanut's hair was a total mess, I mean with bangs looking like an 80's rock star mullet mess...

Mommy: "Wow Peanut, your hair is something else right now"

Peanut: "Whaddya mean?"

Mommy: "It's a big mess"

Peanut: "That's because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!"