Singing

In the past few days you've started singing what you're doing and it's HILARIOUS.  You just start narrating, through song, what's going on.  My two favorites:

We were driving home from New York and you drank a cup of yogurt juice.  After that was done I gave you a cup of water.  You started singing and as I listened to the words I heard:  "Mommy gave me water and not yogurt juice!"

This morning you found a box of band-aids and started singing: "I'm shaking the box of Charlie Brown band-aids"

Just totally ordinary descriptions of what's going on, but you sing them.  It's really funny.

Summertime

You sure are loving summer.  Daddy has been gone a lot because he's studying for the bar.  We've missed him a lot, but we've tried to keep busy.  One of your favorite things to do is go to a splash park that's about 20 minutes away from us.  You love to splash in the water and play at the water tables.  You don't really like some of the bigger sprays, but you have a ton of fun there.  

You playing at the water tables: 

Gabbi sharing one of her toys with you:

Right by the spray park there's a big playground that you like to play on.  

You also LOVE to go swimming.  You beg and beg to go swimming almost every day.  We go to the pool a lot.  There's a big pool and a little pool and you like playing in them both (in fact you insist on swimming in both of them each time we're there).  You didn't really like the big pool at first, but you've been really brave and gotten used to it.  The last time we were there you even decided you wanted to try going under water.  You held your nose while I dunked you, and you LOVED it.  After that you insisted on going under again and again and again.

We do love summer!

I'm All Done With This Part!

While we were out running errands we stopped at the grocery store and I bought a chocolate donut with sprinkles that I wanted to eat as soon as we got in the car. You asked for some, so I gave you a piece of it.  I drove on with you chatting contentedly about the donut in the backseat.  After a few minutes, you said "I'm all done with this part!"  I looked back and you were holding out the piece of donut to me.  It was all slobbery (because you had licked all the chocolate and sprinkles off) and you were covered in chocolate smears.  You had chocolate all over your face, arms and legs.   

I took the piece of donut from you and of course you said "I want some more!"

More Funny Things

You just continue to crack me up all the time.  Things you said today:

You have a magnetic princess set, where you can dress up Cinderella and Belle in dresses and accessories.  You were trying to get me to come play with you and so you said "Mommy, come do princesses.  They're NOT MODEST!"

I opened a desk drawer that holds pens, etc in it and you saw a plastic Minnie Mouse in there that had apparently fallen in there.
Paige: Oh, there's Minnie in there!
Mommy: How silly! What was she doing in there?
Paige:  Maybe she was eating some pens.

Funny Things

We walked up to our car in the parking lot and you said:
"Oh there's our car!" *looks at it for a minute* "Our car is dirty."

We were putting a red shirt on you.

Mommy: What color is your shirt?

*gets mischievous look on face*

Paige: Brown! (laughs like it's the funniest joke in the world).

Mommy: It's not brown. What color is it really?

Paige: Red!

Mommy: Are you hungry in your tummy?
Paige: No, in my mouth!

Picks up dental floss: I have gentle floss!

I walked into your bedroom and found you clapping.  You kept clapping then stopped and said "N-G-O" then kept clapping.  Then you looked at me and said "I'm singing FINGO!"

You were crying the other night and I went into your room and asked what was wrong.  You stopped wailing long enough to say "I need a little bit of milk!"

We got rid of your binkies the other day.  You threw them away and got a big Cinderella doll as a reward.  You've been very mature about it (mostly) and keeping bragging to people "I threw my binkies in the trash, and I got a big Cinderella!"

Arboretum

One day while I was working you got to go to the Arboretum with Christen and Henry.  Christen said you had a lot of fun climbing on the tree stumps and being with friends. 

Preschool at the Zoo

We went on a fun trip to the zoo with our preschool group.  You LOVED the zebras the most and the whole trip you kept begging to go back to see them.  

Paige, Gabbi, Henry, Abby 

Climbing on the bear statue.

Checking out the elephant.  You thought this was pretty cool too. 

Mommy and Paige by the flamingos.