Everybody makes mistakes

So today I picked up some jammies for Princess Bananafana. I mistakenly said they were Barbie jammies, and she quickly corrected me that they are, in fact, Cinderella jammies, not Barbie jammies. I said "oh my mistake!" And she says "That's okay. Everybody makes mistakes Mamma!"
I love this child!

Loving her little ponies

Selling art

Lainey has spent the majority of the day coloring pictures of Humpty Dumpty.  Jeff has been assigned the task of putting price tags on the finished pictures.  Lainey wants to sell her art so she can go buy a Popsicle.
After he marked one for $95, per her instruction, she grabbed it and said "This gets me more Popsicle!"

The Halloween goodie bag from school

This is where Mommy learns a valuable lesson on checking what's in the Halloween goodie bag Lainey got at school today.  I thought I checked it well enough before putting her in her car seat for the 25 minute ride home.  I knew it had candy in it, and that was okay with me.  I apparently underestimated two things: 1. the amount of candy in the bag, and 2. how quickly she'd plow through it.  When we got home and I opened her door, there were four DumDums sticks, an empty box of mini Milk Duds, three empty Smarties wrappers, and a half-eaten Twizzler.  I don't know if I'm appalled or impressed.

Ice cream

Jeff picked her up from school today and took her to Dairy Queen for a treat. She ordered chocolate ice cream and Jeff got a butterscotch dipped cone.
She took one bite of his and made him trade her!!

Oh, the shame!

Lainey decided to show her new pink My Little Pony panties to her male instructor and the rest of the crowd at gymnastics tonight.
I was slightly mortified until my brother Michael gave me some perspective and said "At least he didn't show her his!"

Traffic lights

Lainey knows red means stop, green means go, and yellow means proceed with caution.  She will holler from the back seat that a light is coming up and that I should get ready to do what the light tells me.  She's three and I think she has a better grasp on driving than most people with licenses.

Rhyming

We need to work on the concept of rhyming.  In the car today:

"This old man, he played five, he played knick knack on my door..."
Then-
"This old man, he played five, he played knick knack on my knee..."
Then-
"he played five, he played knick knack on my shoe..."
She did pause once, and I thought she had it, but it went like this-
"he played five (it's always five), he played knick knack .... on my........ (deep breath).... trees"
So close!!

She's kinda been a pill lately

It's bedtime for Bonzo.  Which means Bonzo Lainey plays in her room for an hour doing various things: Singing, reading, playing with her toys, etc.  Last night she was making such a racket that I swear she was building a clubhouse.  Tonight she wanted her fruit snacks.  We were ignoring her, after having told her no fewer than thirty bazillion times that she could not have fruit snacks, and she hollered at us that we were in trouble and we had 5 seconds to bring her fruit snacks.  And then she started counting!

Smarty pants

Side note---Lainey had been suffering from allergies for the last week, coughing and snuffling a lot.
In the car on the way home from Walmart, she kept asking for Sour Patch Kids and then she comes up with "If you give me just three more they won't make me cough anymore."

Oh the things she says

We got Mickey D's after gymnastics tonight, and she was taking her time eating, as usual, which means she's not eating at all but hopping around the booth being a goofball. I asked her if she was ready or if we were going to spend all night there. She says "I'm almost done. Two minutes, okay?"
Now as I'm blogging this she says "I'm done. I'm leaving without you. Let's go Momma!"

The Fisher Price Camera

Today I uploaded pictures Lainey has been taking on her Fisher Price camera since she got it for her 3rd birthday.  Some of the pictures are terrible because it's a cheap kid's toy, so it's dark or out of focus.  But some of the pictures are actually REALLY COOL.  The pictures were all (except maybe one or two) taken by Lainey.  Click here  and then click on "slideshow" in the upper lefthand corner of the pictures. The pictures are also showing in a slideshow on the left side of this blog page.  Enjoy!

Baby Beluga

Song she learned at school, some of it is a little muffled, so turn up your volume!

Candy

When Jeff asked what Lainey wanted to do after gymnastics tomorrow, she said "go home, watch TV, and eat candy!"
What kind of parents are we?!?

Sunglasses. Again.

Lainey: Momma, where are my sunglasses?
Mom: I don't know, where did you put them?
L: I think you threw them in the cactuses.
M: Does that really sound like something I would do?
L: ... No. I think maybe they are in my bin in my room.
M: yes, that seems much more reasonable.

She's really into Humpty Dumpty

We went to Walmart the other day and she wanted to get some "all the king's horses".  We found a My Little Pony set.  It seems to be a good substitution!  In these pictures she's staged her own version of Humpty Dumpty.

            Cast of characters: 
Humpty:                    SpongeBob SquarePants
King's Horses:           My Little Ponies
King's Men:               Baby and mini teddies

Setting up the King's Horses and Men

Humpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty...

Had a great fall

Gymnastics today

Lainey spent most of the class standing on the balance beam making faces in the mirror and announcing to the parents watching "I'm making funny faces Momma!"
Although these pictures were not taken at gymnastics, they were taken afterward when I asked her to show me what faces she was making.

Monday. Monday? Monday!

6:54 AM "Food doesn't always have faces."
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In the car on the way to school:
Me: LB, do you remember what an animal doctor is called?

L: Uh...

M: A veterinarian.

L: Oh yeah, verchinrainmeum.

M: Close.  Good try.  Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?

L: I'm going to stay little Momma, and I'm just going to be a mermaid.

M: Okay, but I thought you wanted to go to college?

L: To Stanford?

M: Yes, if that's where you want to go.

L: Well, are you going to pick me up afterwards?

M: Probably.  In fact you'll probably come back home for a while afterward.

L: Will I get to see you and daddy while I'm at Stanford?

M: Actually I think daddy is planning on going with you.

L: Oh good.  But I sure am going to miss you Momma.

M: Oh thanks Baby, I'll miss you too.

L: Am I going to be there a long time?

M: Four years is all we can afford unless you get a job or scholarship.

L: Well, I don't want to be there that long.

M: Okay, if you think you can do it in three years, I'm all for it!

L: Well, I think maybe I just want to go to my apple school instead.  I don't want to leave you at home by yourself.

M: That's sweet Pooh, thank you.  Lets just wait a couple years before you go to Stanford, okay?

L: Yeah, we'll just wait Momma.  Do horses poop and what does it smell like?

She rules this house

Conversation with Jeff

J: "Lainey, quit squishing your oranges and go wash your hands."
L: "No, it's fine if I just wipe my hands on my nightgown." (It's 4:45 in the afternoon, by the way)
J: "No, it's not fine  Go wash your hands in the sink with water."
L: "No, I don't want to."
J: "I don't care, I told you to wash your hands."
L: "No."
J: "Yes.  Do it now, or I'm taking away your new pony." (Not a real pony.  Obviously.  Dunkin is already left out enough as it is.  Otherwise....)
L: "No, I -"
J: "Lainey, go now."
L: "Quit talking back to me, Daddy."  Hands on hips, glowering.

Forget the tantrums, or the late nights and early mornings when she was a baby.  The hardest part of parenting so far is hiding our snickers and smiles, and trying to keep from busting out laughing when she does something like this.

This pic doesn't relate to this post, it's just cute

Makeup, from the makers of Crayola™

There really isn't anything else to say!

Boobs

In the car with Eric, Maile, Brayden, and me, Lainey says "Hey, my dad has little boobs. [pause] That was funny. Do you want me to say it again?"

Dinner for little girls

"Momma, little girls don't like pizza or macaroni, so it's fine if I just have a cookie, okay?"

Is that a reindeer on her shirt?

This was the chosen outfit today

Silly

Lainey: "this is silly putty. And I'm silly."

And then when I asked her to smile for the camera again, this is what she did:

I am what I am!  And I am silly!

Almost didn't get one today

As I was getting her some allergy medicine, she picked a banana up off the countertop, held it to her ear, and said "Hello?  Yeah?  Well, Momma's giving me medicine.  I have to go.  Bye!" 

She turned to me and said "That was my banana phone.  Where's my medicine?"

Today's conversation in the car

Lainey: "Momma, I need my sunglasses.  I can't see the sun."
I hand her the sunglasses that are stuffed in the pocket in back of the driver's seat.
Lainey: "Hey, these are kinda chewed up.  It's because Dunkin is kind of a turd sometimes.  We like him most of the time, but sometimes he's just a turd."
Pause for 2.4 seconds
"And daddy doesn't have any sunglasses.  Why he doesn't have sunglasses, momma?"
Me: "I don't know, but I've urged him many times to get some.  Maybe he'll listen to you if you tell him to get some."
Lainey: "He won't listen to me either, because he's kind of a bad boy.  He gets a frowny face today for being a bad boy for that he didn't listen to me.  And he also hit me with a spatula."
Me: "Daddy didn't hit you with a spatula, goofball.  Are you fibbing?"
Lainey: "..... yes.  He's a good boy.  But still he gets a frowny face because he doesn't have sunglasses."
Me: "Okay, that seems perfectly reasonable to me."