April 2009
3 posts
My baby is SIX
How did this happen? I read over the post I made last year at her 5th birthday and here I am trying to make sense of the fact that an entire year has yet again flown by.
My little girl is so big! She is doing so well in school and is the smartest kid in class! I know because I help out every Wednesday and my observation of her being the brightest kid is obviously completely unbiased.
She is a...
December 2008
2 posts
How bizarre is it I can be on an instant messenger...
heather: hi ellie
ellie: hi mom
heather: wut are you doing?
ellie: im playen nickjr.com
heather: oh fun!
ellie: rele fun
heather: wut game are you playing?
ellie: my nickjr coloring book
heather: cool
I love you baby!
ellie: yep yep yep i love you too mom
Talk to the tummy
Whenever you “talk” to Mara you push your mouth right up against my tummy and yell things at her. It’s too funny. It comes out all mummbled but you insist that is the only way she can hear you.
I can’t wait to see you as a big sister!
November 2008
4 posts
Let's go!
Ellie told us she LOVES going to the bowling isles.
Not bowling lanes mind you… bowling isles.
Thanksgiving
Myjoha: mom we learned who was at the first Thanksgiving.
Me: Ok… who all was there?
Myjoha: All of the native Americans and the…. the…
Me: (trying to help her find the word..) The P-p—pii
Myjoha: OH YA! All the native Americans and all the pelicans.
Ellie says
That when you die if you’re a girl you become and angel. And if you’re a boy you become a ghost.
October 2008
2 posts
Recent funnies
We were drivinghome from a restaurant that had given Ellie some crayons at the table. I hear her from the backseat ask me, “Mom… can you wash crayon out of car seats?” Niiiice. So I ask her if she drew on the car seat. Sadly she a says, “Yes I’m sorry it was an accident!” I look back and it is just a small mark. I tell her it will be OK but please don’t...
September 2008
7 posts
Room servants
Ellie had a WONDERFUL weekend! Her grammy was in town so of course she got all her grammy lovin in and spoiled to the max! Since her grammy was here in town on business she was staying in a hotel for a few days.
Ellie got to go hang out and party at the hotel! She even got to play hookey from school to hang out with her on Monday! The BEST part of hotels is the room service Ellie says. Or as she...
The things you say...
“Don’t lick the desicsions.”
I was asking Ellie to chose between two things I held up one finger and gave her the first option. Then I put up a second finger and gave her the next option. I then said… “Well, what’s your decision?”
Because she was feeling silly she licked my fingers to which I told her not to lick the decisions. I love the things that...
Hey woman
That’s what my dear child said to me today. She called me woman!
I don’t know why I think it’s so funny.
As seen on TV
She tells me this a lot, “Mom do you know why I like to watch noggin? Because it’s just like preschool on TV!”
That’s their advertisement.
Also she has a bedtime routine that includes, bath time, jammies, brushing teeth, reading a bedtime story, a song and then getting tucked in. She’s been telling me that before I tuck her in I need to give her a massage. I asked...
Gizmo kisses
Ellie came up to me tonight and gave me a hug and a kiss. I kissed her back and then I rubbed our noses together a la eskimo kiss style.
She giggled and asked me, “What is that called mama? When you rub noses? A gizmo kiss?”
I think I’ll call them gizmo kisses from now on.
August 2008
9 posts
How? HOW? Can this be?
I just tucked you into bed. You’re drifting off to sleep right this very moment and tomorrow morning you’ll be going to school. Your FIRST day of elementary school! You are a student. There’s no turning back. We met your teacher, she seems so nice. Your classroom looks so bright and cheery and I know you will have a great time!
But where is my baby? Where is my chubby little...
More proof my kid is weird
Ellie was watching Fairly Odd Parents. A cartoon about a little boy who has 2 fairy God parents who grant him wishes.
Ellie told me she wished she had fairy God parents so she could make wishes. I told her that sounded like fun and asked her what she would wish for first. She told me her wish would be for a GIANT bottle of water.
Uhhh… ok… a giant bottle of water sweetie? Yes, she...
Soda Hospital
We’ve been visiting Papa Terry at the hospital, yesterday Ellie asked me, “Why is Papa Terry at a soda hospital?” I looked at her confused and asked her what she meant. She said, “WHY is he at a soda hospital? I never seen any Mountain Dew in there so why is it called that?”
The hospital is called “Mountain View Hospital”.
More words
I love that a ‘skeleton’ is a ‘skullatin’
Quirky
I love this…
When Ellie sees me use my inhaler she comes over an stands by me. When I inhale and hold my breathe she does the same thing. She’ll hold hers as long as I hold mine and then she exhales slowly and asks if I feel better.
It’s so cute. It’s like she is completely concerned and she is there to support me holding her breath along with me. My sweet girl.
July 2008
8 posts
You're growing up so fast!
To my Bugga bugga
Next month you’re starting Kindergarten! I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was tucking you into you car seat as we drove away from the hospital. I had to sit right next to your seat so I could watch you the whole way home.
The next thing I knew you were taking your first steps. You are the sweetest, smartest most wonderful daughter anyone could ever...
Oh no!
I had to run to the grocery store and the closest one on the way was a Wal-Mart neighborhood market.
As soon as we pulled in Ellie got very serious and asked, “Are we shopping here?” I told her yes we had to run in for a case of water and she cried, “Noooo mommy!! We CAN’T shop here!!! It’s COMMUNIST CHINA!!!!”
Thaaaaaanks commercials!!!
According to Ellie
You should always wash your hands.
Especially after touching food like chicken and raw eggs.
You don’t want to get south vanilla.
She sure knows how to break your heart
Ellie colored a picture of a mermaid. Actually it was 2 mermaids. One was her as a mermaid and one was me. She hurried over to show me the picture and I told her how wonderful it was. I love how she does her little fins.
But suddenly her little face squished up and a great big frown spread across it. She said, “But mommy, you know there really AREN’T such things as mermaids…...
Mmmm Frosting
I was in the kitchen thawing out some chicken when Ellie came in and asked what I was making. I told her “I’m defrosting chicken.”
Later that night at dinner she was upset because there was no “Frosting chicken” as I had promised.
Ellie's obsession
Mermaids.
She LOVES mermaids. Every day we go to the pool she pretends to be a mermaid. She crosses her legs at her ankles and splashes around. It’s so cute. She begs for me to pretend to be a mermaid with her.
She tells me everything she knows about mermaids. Like you have to be really nice if you want to be a mermaid because mermaids are good and caring. And mermaids eat “the white...
June 2008
7 posts
Ellie was playing with her keyboard and it made a rooster noise which she heard and happily said, “It’s a morning chicken!”
And now Moths are “night time butterflies”.
Dinosaurs
According to Ellie:
Dinosaurs are extinct.
Which is too bad because she likes them.
They are really cool.
She wishes they were unstinked.
Instead of duck as in “duck your head or duck down” she says ‘dunk’.
“Dunk your head” or “Dunk down low!” lol sorta make sence though too!
For lullaby she says luddabye
Colors
Myjoha: I lost my scream.
Me: Where did you have it last?
Myjoha: I don’t know. If you see it let me know. It will be floating around here and it’s black and white.
Me: Your scream has a color? What color are your laughs?
Myjoha: Red and pink
Me: How about when you cry, what color is that?
Myjoha: Yellow and orange.
I just thought that was so cute.
May 2008
4 posts
Her words
I love the way she decides to describe things. She said that boys are good for protecting you because they are tough and “Fightish”. Also when our dog is playing rough he’s “Bitish”.
Dude just needed a comb
While driving down the road she saw a homeless man holding up a sign. Myjoha: Mommy what does that man’s sign say? Me: It says, “Homeless and hungry, please help.” Myjoha: What does ‘homeless’ mean? Me: It means you don’t have a house or any place to live. Myjoha: Then where does his wife sleep? Me: I don’t think he has a wife sweetie. Myjoha: Oh ya I...
When you're older
I didn’t notice but we must tell Ellie that she’ll like certain things when she’s older a lot. Example: She doesn’t like certain foods, ‘don’t worry you’ll like them better when you get older’. Or she asks us why grown ups like to watch boring things on TV, ‘Well when you’re older you’ll like to watch those things too’ etc. ...
April 2008
1 post
March 2008
7 posts
What she had to say
immediately following her 5th birthday party: “I just can’t WAIT to be 6!”
Her own lyrics
She was singing “big girls don’t cry” and instead of singing: ‘I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket’ she sang, ‘I’m gonna kiss you like a jaguar on a blanket”’