Choo choo and boat

We slept in till 7:30am. I was watching her roll around on the monitor when the light in her room suddenly just popped on. She looked around, confused, waiting to see mommy or daddy. Then she started sneezing (the light was so bright...can't you imagine it? She's always sneezed in bright light/sunlight since she was a baby). I told Paul that her light just came on so I should go up there. He was like: what???

Yeah, it was weird. It's the second time it's happened. Once before when Paul was out of town and I was reading her a book.

She was happy to see me despite the bright light in her face. Then for the second morning in a row proceeded to tell me about how she sees an umbrella "over there"...points to nothing...and that she kicks this umbrella over and over.

She tells me over and over about kicking that umbrella. She must be telling me about her dreams...?

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Later. This morning's conversation with Anna (while I was ironing my clothes):

Spacemama: Hey, baby what's up!

Anna: I ate all! Blah blah...waffles...and...syrup...and...juice!

Spacemama: Oh, you ate your waffles with syrup and juice?

Anna: Uh-huh! (all smiles and nodding)

Spacemama: That's great, baby! Are you going to hang out with Daddy today?

Anna: Uh-huh!

Spacemama: What are you and daddy going to do today?

Anna: Ummmm...(looks around, thinks)... Ride choo-choo and boat!

And they say she's too young to remember Disney...

Spacemama: Oh my, that sounds like fun!!! Go tell Daddy!

I can hear her run to Paul in the living room:

Anna to Spacedaddy: Blah...blah...blah...choo-choo and boat!

Spacedaddy: What, baby?

They come into the bathroom where I'm ironing my clothes.

Anna repeats something to Paul about a boat and choo-choo. Spacedaddy sort of gets it...

Spacedaddy: What's this about a choo-choo and boat?

I tell him it wasn't my idea. Really. I tell him his best bet is Kemah. Even though Kemah was not in his plans for the day. But as far as I know, when I left this morning they were talking about going at least for the choo-choo ride. In fact, he should probably follow through on that since we used it to bribe her into putting her shoes on and getting her hair up.


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Last night we had a fun dinner with TJ and C and C's parents and LW. They're super cool!! Just like TJ's parents are. TJ made a great dinner as usual and the kids were jamming to ACDC upstairs with Paul and C until I spoiled the party at 9pm when it was time to get Anna home and to bed wayyyy past her usual bedtime. She was rocking to ACDC with the rest of them. Little booger.

Thanks for the fun time!!!

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Over the weekend I took Anna to AS's 2nd year birthday party. It was really fun. We were making little art projects that CS had laid out on the table for the kids, when the pizza showed up. Anna looks up from her glue stick: "PIZZA???"

Then, after the pizza: "CAKE?"

She's her mother's child.

At one point she did mistake the glue stick for chap stick and when I gently stopped her from putting it on her lips, she looked around at all the people who saw this and started bawling like I smacked her. I think she was *embarrassed* which I believe is a first. And I am telling the truth when I say it wasn't like I fussed her or anything! Something about it got to her. Bless her little heart.

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On Sunday, my mom, sis, and cousins were in town to hang with Anna while Paul and I struggled on a 52 mile bike ride (The Great Escape). We suffered when we shouldn't be at this point in training. But I digress.

Anna had SO MUCH FUN with them. She played like she was a big girl and they got her the Hungry Hippos game (she plays it alot now) and a little chipmunk that moves and squeaks, which she also loves. They also bough her some clothes, which for some reason, she is not cool with these days. She tried to throw the clothes out of the shopping cart!!! She did the same thing with a birthday gift her uncle got her last week. She looked into the bag, pulled out the clothes and said "NO CLOTHES! NO CLOTHES!!" and threw them out of the bag!! WTH? I have ZERO idea where it is coming from.

Anyway, it was super cool to see her hanging out with her big cousins, just like a big girl. She is asking about everyone now, and where they all went. I tell her they went home and she's OK with it.

Paci updates: We cut her paci's in the cars. She repeated to us that it was broken! Broken! "Need fix it!" She asked for her water. I handed it to her. She turned it upside down and tried to sprinkle her water onto her paci in a sad attempt to fix it. Didn't work and she got mad that instead her pants got wet. Bummer. Then she held it out and said "You cut it?" Oops. Overall, though, for the past few car rides, she'll ask about it, repeat over and over it's broken while we acknowledge, and then she'll give it to me to hold. So hopefully we're on to another good start. Even though I have no idea where we stand with the whole teething thing.

And no, she's not potty trained yet. She used to like to sit on the potty at home and she even went a few times but these days she says NO! when you ask her so we're not pushing yet. But when someone leaves the room (anyone!) and she asks where they went, we always tell her they went to pee-pee on the potty. It's actually humorous.

One last thing that I find super funny but probably shouldn't. She was rough-housing with me the other night. As she'd get up to climb onto my stomach to prepare to jump (yeah, I'm tough, see?), she'd giggle and say "DAMN!" in the cutest little giggly-girly-toddler voice you can imagine. So much so I couldn't stop her. She did it over and over. I kept listening close to be sure I wasn't getting it wrong. But no, I think I heard it right.

Where'd it come from? Beats me, but I think Paul does say DAMN every time she super body-slams him...I think? Subconsciously... It's either that or some booger-nose in her classroom is saying it.