Wonder Baby Wednesday #27

Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of...a chipmunk!

Only instead of having nuts stored in her cheek pouches, they are baby tomatoes--one in each cheek. As I have already mentioned a while back about her love of tomatoes: she's her mother's daughter.

...

Parenting "Thought of the Day" #5

I love hearing things I've said come out of Eme's mouth because they sound so funny coming from someone so small.

Today, after seeing her give a big yawn, I asked "are you tired, baby?" She said "wong day." And then sighed.

She was right, it was a long day for both of us. But it was suddenly also a very funny day. I laughed, she laughed... a very funny, long day.

...

Wonder Baby Wednesday #26

Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of...Cinderella ready for the ball!

Thanks, Aunt Amy, for Eme's first "pedicure" and her toddler-sized "glass slippers."

Yes, I gave my permission. Anyone who "Disney-fies" my child without permission deserves what they get from me. But how could I say no when Eme got so excited at the prospect of getting to do her toes just like mommy and Aunt Amy?

Plus, it turns out glass slippers aren't just for dancing. You should see her play football in those shoes!

...

Wonder Baby Wednesday #25

Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of...a (stuffed animal) chameleon!

Can you spot her as she cunningly blends with her surroundings?

This is Eme hiding from the "ba-boom" (that's vacuum for those of you unaccustomed to Eme-speak). She figured that if we put everything else on the couch to keep it safe, why not her, too?

...

Wonder Baby Wednesday #24

Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of....merry-go-round rodeo rider!

She's riding! Pay no attention to Papa Guy holding her on the horse.

...

Parenting "Thought of the Day" #4

Training potties are fantastic for many reasons (because they're the right size for small bottoms and short legs, because they come with princesses on them, etc.) but I never thought I'd have to carry around so much pee.

...

The differences between men and women.

Eme has really begun to enjoy Eloise -- you may remember the books from your childhood, or you may even have seen the (very cute) movies produced back in 2003 with Julie Andrews as the nanny. We got the movies from the library, and Eme likes to ask me to tell the story, or will sometimes do something Eloise does (like stand on her toes).

The other day I found myself searching Amazon to see if I could get the movies (they're not really widely available right now since they're from 2003 and you can only check them out of the library so many times before you start to seem strange). I found and ordered them, and ordered an Eloise book that I thought Eme and I could read together as well.

A little bit later, Andreas was talking about a present he wanted to get for Eme. Could it be that he had also noticed how much she liked Elosie and wouldn't it be funny if we were searching for the same thing?

Nope. Not so much.

He wanted to get her a couple of sticks like the one Mulan has (points for trying to get her something from a character she likes) so she can fight me like Mulan does.

That may not be the only difference between men and women, but it's certainly an eye-opening one. :)

...