Life

One morning as we lay around talking...
Aubrey: I'm sad.
Me: Why are you sad?
Aubrey: Because you yelled at me last night and told me to go to sleep.
Me: Well, that was last night and you were a good sleeper, so I'm not upset.
Aubrey: But you yelled at me and it made me sad and I can't dream any more.
Me: Um....
Aubrey: **taps her heart** You hurt my life.

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That was a couple weeks ago. Just the other day she mentioned her "life" in connection to dancing and how dancing makes her "life" happy. To Aubrey, her heart IS her life, and that's just fine with me.

Mind of their own:

Aubrey, get your feet off the table.
But they want to be on the table.
Well, when they try to come up on the table, tell them to stop it.
OK...but they don't listen very well.

More sarcasm:

The other night I was playing with the girls. I had the AquaDoodle thingie out - sort of like EtchaSketch with a pen. Aubrey said, "draw me!!", so I quickly did a line drawing of a girl sitting on the ground. Aubrey walks up, looks at it and frowns.
"Is that me....or a bumblebee?"

Speak and spell

Maybe most kids are doing this at 16 months...but Aubrey sure wasn't, so we're pretty impressed.
We're not really the flashcards - teach your kid to do math by age 2 type of parents. We'd rather they play and slowly learn what they need to know. But we've been working with Aubrey on her letters. She knows how to spell her name, but doesn't really like it so much.
So yesterday I said, Aubrey, let's spell your name. I said, "A", to start it for her, and instead of Aubrey taking it, I heard a little "Yoooooo" from beside me. It was Charlotte. Surprised, I looked at her and said, "B"....and she smiled and said "awwwrwww". I said, "E"......and sure enough, she smiled really big and yelled "Y!!!"
So...um...my 3 year old won't spell her name, but luckily her not quite 1 1/2 year old sister is there to help her. A couple more times since has gotten Es and Bs out of Charlotte. So I think the only letter she won't supply is the A, since that's our job to start it with.

Sarcasm

"Here's your water Aubrey", I say and place the sippy on her table. I say goodnight and close the door. 1 minute later she's back out. Not surprising...she usually comes out and asks for her "big hug". It's part of the ritual. So I pick her up and ask if she wants her hug. "no...it's not cold".
What's not cold?
"The water's not cold".
Oh yeah, I'd used tap water because I hadn't had a chance to put a new water jug on the Ozarka dispenser.
"I know Aubrey, we're out of cold water"

"Well, are we out of ice?"

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She's done this before and I might have even blogged about it before. But now it's taking on a new urgency.

Tracy tells Aubrey all the time that "a girl can do anything she wants to do". This is mostly in reference to how a girl can be anything and do anything in life she wants.
Last night I told the girls it was time for their bath. Aubrey starts to whine and said, "but I wanted to play dress up!!!". Aubrey, not now...maybe after your bath.
"but a girl can do anything she wants to do!!!!"

"ok...but just for 5 minutes, then we take a bath"
From there I walked in to tell Tracy that she needs to explain better to Aubrey what that phrase means.

Speaking of explanations...how do you make a child understand what "tomorrow" means. When we say, "tomorrow's gym class", the next day Aubrey asks, "is it tomorrow??". Um. "No, it's today". We're sort of at a loss here.


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This morning as we played on the floor I pulled a cover over Charlotte and I to hide from Aubrey who was walking in. Charlotte smiled and whispered, "hiding" with perfect pronunciation. So fun.

Dance Recital Costumes!!!!!!