Ya-ya and Chiquita stories

Apparently we order a lot of pizza....

Mama puts Ya-ya on the phone:

Mama says, "It's Aunt Honey!"

Ya-ya says, "Peet-za! 'am! Mus-oom!"

hehehehehe


I've been walking a neighbour's almost two year old daughter along with my two dogs lately.

Yana talks for the entire hour and a half. "Bay-y. Come Bay-y. Come ON, Bay-y ..." Bailey and Cleo walk beside her and she's still going "Come ON, Bay-y".

I can hardly wait til she can get her mouth around the word Cleo.

Heh.

Ya-ya pronounces the three cats "Wucky" (Lucky), "Doo-bug" (Doodlebug), and "Bicket" (Biscuit).



Conversation at lunch:

Daddy asks, "Who's the cutest baby ever?"

Ya-ya replies, "Mama!"

"Yeah, Mama was a cute baby," says Daddy, "but who's the cutest baby ever?"

"Daddy!"

"Thank you sweetie, but you're the cutest baby ever!"

Ya-ya thinks for a moment, then says, "Yes!"

I actually emailed someone the movies/cookie and "pizza" ones, they were so cute ;-)

Loving the June 9 pics! And, the dress up one.

Is it at all possible to be too cute?

I'm thinking "yes."

Crossing my fingers for DrewDad to get a boy.

Your two will be "spaced" the same as mine, with oldest being a girl. Really great to have them so close that they aren't competing or too far apart to play together. Really gets fun at about 2 1/2 and 4, when both are quite mobile.

Sleep now, while you can.

Yeah. We're trying to bank sleep like it's money....

Glad to hear that the spacing is a good one; one of my co-workers was talking about how this spacing can result in sibling rivalries.


Just before bedtime, tonight:

Mama says, "Ya-ya, it's almost time for clean-up time."

"I sit couch," Ya-ya replies, "Mama clean up!"

Her pizza-ordering skills have improved. She now picks up her toy telephone and interacts with us:

Ya-ya: "Hewow? I o-dew peesa, peas." (Hello? I order pizza, please.)

Me: "You would like to order a pizza? What kind would you like?"

Ya-ya: "Boo!" (Blue!)




Then last night she had to kiss every character on every page in Goodnight Moon.




And she gets upset when the mommy in Five Little Mokeys says goodnight to the little monkeys.

So she takes after you, then?

Ya-ya is a bit anxious for the new baby to arrive. She was talking to Mama's tummy and said, "Hello, baby. Come out!"

Sometimes you gotta wonder what's going on in their little heads.

Last night after going to the neighborhood park and watching everyone shoot off fireworks, she started saying "meow, fireworks... meow, fireworks..." etc.

I asked her why the fireworks were saying "meow."

Her reply? "Woof-woof!"

Ha!

I spent some time with an 18-month-old yesterday, was getting flashbacks to sozlet's baby brain... (odd thing, indeed.)

Seems like there may be a general "things that make noise" theme...? Were there any "boom!"s in there?

Was she just pretending to be a kitten or a doggie? My daughter does this all the time.

Sounds to me as though she was wrestling with the idea of there being dogs and cats and a new crash-boom animal in the world.

Definitely has something to do with the noise.

Mama: "Ya-ya, do you remember talking about the meow fireworks?"
Ya-ya: <nods vigorously> "Boom-boom!"

Drew Dad--

Was she close enough to the fireworks to hear the cat-like hissing?

Good thought.

We went to dinner at a place that has an ice cream maker at the front.

At the end of the meal, the waitress asks if we she can bring us anything else.

I say, "Not for me, thanks."

Mrs. Drew says, "No, we're good."

Ya-ya says, "Ice Peam!"

Yaya: "The moooon! I hode it! (hold it)"

Mama: "No sweetie, the moon is too far away. Mommy can't even reach it. See?"

Yaya: (starting to cry) "The moooon! I want it! I hode it! Daddy get it!"

Daddy: "Yaya, the moon is too big and too far away. You can't hold it - it's as big as that truck over there. You could even run around on it it's so big."

Yaya: "I jump on it! I get it!"

Mama: "No, you can't get the moon. It belongs to the sky."

Yaya: "The moon not ours!"

Daddy: "Yes, that's right, and you would need a rocket to get to the moon because it's so far."

Yaya: "I go rocket. I get it! I hode it! I get moooooooonnnn!"

One night after Ya-ya went to bed, Mrs. Drew and I were watching a show we had taped. Suddenly, Cookie Monster appears. We knew that we'd accidently taped a few minutes of Sesame Street, so we were treated to C. Monster telling us the letter of the day.

Every day, the letter of the day is written on a cookie. Every day, Cookie Monster tries valiantly to preserve the cookie, but is doomed to failure. He eats it.

Mrs. Drew was telling me how Ya-ya laughs and giggles at C. Monster's antics. "She knows what's going to happen, but she laughs at the joke anyway."

So we're waiting while C. Monster packages up the cookie and mails it off so that it will be safe. Then he receives a package, opens it, and devours the letter-of-the-day cookie.

Mrs. Drew starts laughing!

I look at her, she covers her mouth and looks embarrassed, then bursts out laughing again.

Sometimes you have to wonder what's going on inside their heads....