“Oh the Snacks You Will Make”

“Oh the Laundry You Will Do”

“Oh the Kisses You Will Give”

“Oh the Bandaids You Will Go Through”

“Oh the Veggies You Will Waste”

“Oh the Speed With Which You Will Run”

“Oh the Joy You Will Have”

As you can see, once you get started it’s hard to stop. Try it!

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Yesterday Will and I were playing “I Spy”. He said “I spy with my little eye something that starts with the letter B”. I asked questions until he told me it was a helicopter. We talked about how helicopter starts with the letter H and then I asked where exactly he saw this helicopter in our house. He said “I see it in my heart AND in my brain”. Great, new rules for “I Spy” I guess.

Maggie is chatting more and more all the time. She isn’t saying “thank you” quite so much but does love to say “uPPP” whenever she needs to get somewhere. She uses it a lot when I’m making dinner and can’t really hold her much, tugging on my clothes crying, and when she’s hungry. She will stand by her highchair and say it over and over until I put her in her seat and give her a snack. She is a good communicator.

“Vegetables make you grow big, sugar just makes you stay medium.”

When I give him a time limit, such as 5 minutes his response is always, “can I have a long five minutes?”

9/15/2011 – “Will talked all about his full name and tractors. Ask him about pretending to make a boat and going wake boarding.” Will and Amelia have been pretending to wake board and water ski since we got home from Green Lake, WI. They use their train on wheels as the boat, a long piece of yarn with a toilet paper roll as the handle for the ski rope, and off they go. Will likes to pretend he is swimming and asks to make sure we all have life jackets on. Apparently he likes it so much he wants to do it at school!

9/20/2011 – Will didn’t eat any of his snack today, which is quite unusual because snacks are his favorite meal. Ms. Katie wrote “He said I don’t like American cheese, I like cheddar.”

He recently saw a woman smoking in her car and said “Hey mom, why does that lady have a candle with fire on the end in her car?”

Will was looking through an empty toilet paper roll and came over and said “I’m keeping my eye on you”.

I got dressed up for a brunch this morning and Amelia asked “why do you look so beautiful this morning?” Very sweet. She was looking through my jewelry box and wanted to put on some “creations” too. I asked what that meant and she said it meant “to get your beautiful on.” I like her modified language.

When Amelia talks I’ve started noticing a little whistle from time to time. Her two front bottom teeth are loose! We aren’t ready for a child old enough to loose teeth. Last night I was getting the kids in the car and I told Amelia I couldn’t believe how old she was getting, what could we do to keep her young? She assured me that it would be fine and there was absolutely nothing we could do to stop her from growing up. I said maybe we should have another baby to make sure we have a little one for awhile and Will said “NO, I want a dog!”…….not likely buddy.

Background information about this funny: 1. Amelia likes to narrate her life throughout the day. 2. She listens to a lot of books on cd. So today I heard her start one of her narrations with “Recorded Books Presents” and then whatever title she’d decided for this episode of Life According to Amelia.

*7/19/11 9:05pm – We just finished the last Little House on the Prairie book. Amelia said “Last chapter, please don’t go away. What am I going to do without these books?”

“Once upon a time there was a tractor plowing a field. There was a combine picking corn and dumping it into a wagon. Once upon a time. The end.”

And while I was putting him to bed he wanted me to sing him Rock A Bye Baby, the version where I catch him instead of him falling. I had no idea he listened that closely.

Recently Will has gotten creative with stalling bedtime, even after he’s in his crib, by hollering “Mom, I’m naked.” My initial reaction was to holler back “Go to sleep Will”, but then thought I should just check. Low and behold, there was our son completely naked standing in his crib with a big grin. He’d discovered one thing that would always get us to come back to his room.

While asking for something during breakfast she also asked, “oh, and when are you going to take me to Disneyland?” When pressed for details on Disneyland we discovered she didn’t know where Disneyland was or what was there.  I think we have a little more time before that trip.

Today after she took a nap she said the wind woke her up by “stealing her sleep”.  She also thought she should steal the wind and put it in jail so it doesn’t happen again.

Will

Will’s vocabulary is increasing everyday. Many of his sentences begin with “Mina”, his name for Amelia.  He recently told me he wanted to go on an airplane.  I asked where he would go and what he would do, and he replied, “Iowa, to ride tractors.”  He also wants to ride his bike constantly and will say “Ride bike, helmet on.”

Amelia: “Mom, when I’m as big as you I’m going to be 11. Is that old enough to marry Jack?”

me: “Not quite, you need to be 25 or 30. Are you going to marry Jack when you’re older?”

Amelia: “Yes, he’s going to be my husband because he’s my best friend forever. We’re going to build a wood house that’s purple. Our bedrooms are going to be right next to ourselves (each other) so I can snuggle him.”

At this point Helen and Vera joined us in the car.

Amelia to Helen: “I’m going to marry Jack.”

Helen: “Really, what kind of cake are going to have?”

Amelia: “A chocolate chip cake. Jack and I are going to sit at a little table, with Evvi, to eat it. I’m going to wear a white dress with sparkles and we’re going to live in a wood house that’s purple with Evvi and Will, they will be our children.”

The conversation continued with the conclusion that Amelia is going to have all her friends and their parents live in the house too. This is not the first time Amelia has talked about marrying Jack. A couple weeks ago Amelia went to a play with Eryn and Jack and at one point Amelia got frustrated and told him “If you don’t stop doing that I’m not going to be your friend or your wife!” Eryn couldn’t stop laughing when she told me.