The Things She Says

This is a small collection of some of the cute and funny things the girls have said and done recently.  I want to write them down somewhere so I don't ever forget!  Enjoy!

I was putting on my flip flops the other day.  Charlotte noticed, "Mama wearing flip clops!"

A while back, I was walking across the back patio and tripped over something.  C warned me calmly, "Kufful, Mama."

I asked Charlotte to bring me the towel from the kitchen.  "Here chicken towel, Mama!"

I made the pumpkin muffins last weekend and gave the girls each one for snack.  Charlotte really likes bread of any kind and was so excited she mixed up the words pumpkin and muffin, "eating munkin fo' see-nack!  So fun!"

On Tuesdays we go to speech therapy, library, the grocery store and have lunch with Sam in town.  The girls always look forward to it.  C was reciting our stops for the day, "Thay-pee, ly-bee-EE, go-shee  sto, DEN munch wif Papa!"

Both girls have been practicing counting to twenty, which they do well.  FLs counting is distinguishable only to her family (though spot on), but C is so serious about her counting that it makes her pronunciations even cuter!  "Wwwwon, tooooo, treeee, fo, fiiiii, sick, sehben, ey, niiiii, ten, lehben, twellll, fo'teeee, fo'teeee, fih teeee, sick teeee, sehbenteee, eyteeee, nyhteee, tenneeeeee!!!"  I think "sehben" will always be my favorite number!  How cute is that?!

We were driving past a construction site with an enormous hill of dirt at least one story high.  Charlotte cried out, "Mama, Mama!  BIIIIIIIIIIIG ant pile!"

Sam and I had fed the girls first and planned to enjoy a nice dinner at the table while the girls played nearby.  They tend to call for me every ten seconds, so I tried to explain to them that I needed to eat and they didn't need to interrupt.

M: Charlotte and Flora Lin, Mama and Papa are going to eat together and talk.  You need to be quiet...  If you say, "Hey, Mama!" I might not talk back.    Oh, but you can talk to each other!

C: (without skipping a beat, waving at FL) Hey, Fo'Yin!

FL: (waving back) Hey, Hawyotte!

The picture above is apparently what I look like while talking on the phone. : )

In the car recently:

M:  Ok, now we are getting on the interstate.

C: We on da inna-steak! 

(Which is funny because that is exactly what I called it at her age!) 

Once at the zoo, I let FL chase the roaming peacock and try to touch it.  She was DETERMINED to do it the next time we went.  They were cutting limbs at the zoo that day and FL chased it into the big pile.  Instead of stopping she just went barreling through this massive pile of limbs to try and get to the peacock!  I had to stop her!

On another zoo trip, the girls were going over the animals that they wanted to visit.  They both kept saying something that sounded like "tiger horse" or "horse tiger" but I was certain I just wasn't understanding their way of pronouncing things.

C and FL: Haws tyah!

M: Tiger?  We just saw the tiger, sweet girls.

C: Haws tyah!

M:  Horse?  Honey, they don't have a horse at the zoo.

C: Haws tyah!

M:  Are you saying horse tiger?!

C And FL: (nodding)

M: Silly girls!  There's not a horse tiger at the zoo! (we all laugh and laugh together).

C: Haws tyah, haws tyah, haws tyah! (Horse tiger)

M: Ohhhhhhhhh!!! Do you mean zebra?!

C and FL: (nodding vigorously)

M:  You're so right!   There is a horse tiger at the zoo!

C:  Silly Mama!  HAWS TYAH EEBAH!!!!!! (We all laugh even more!)

In the car, about a week ago:

C: Mama, ebah, ebah, ebah, ebah an EBAH!

M: Are you saying, I'm your mama for ever and ever and ever and ever? (we talk about this often, but she never really seems to take comfort in or respond to it)

C: YES!

M:  That's right!  I'm your mama forever.  No bye-bye.  And Papa, too.

C: Papa ebah, ebah, ebah!

M:  Yes, and Flora Lin is your sister for ever and ever, too.  I am Flora Lin's Mama forever and ever, too.  We are family forever.

C:  F'Yin ebah, ebah.  No bye-bye?

M: Mama, Papa, Flora Lin and Charlotte are family forever and ever.  No bye-bye.

C: (laughing) Shawyotte happy!

M:  I'm so glad!!!

C: Fam-yee fo'ebah!  Mama, Papa, Shawyotte, F'Yin!  Mo' fam-yee, peas!

Oh, they are precious!!!

Please don't think I've intentionally left out Flora Lin by not including many of the things she says.  She is funny and cute all day long, just at a different place with verbal language.  If I wrote down every funny thing she did, I wouldn't have time to do anything else!!! : ). And you wouldn't have time to read it all!