Eme: Mama! Sing muumaid.
Me: Ok. "I wish I could be part of your world..."
Eme: No! Sing ovaaa muumaid. "Ahhhhhhhh." (Eme attempts to do the vocalization from when the Sea Witch takes Ariel's voice.)
Me: Ok. "Ahhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhh, ahhhh ahhh ahhh ahhhh ahhhhhh." (I attempt, without much more success, to do Ariel's vocalization. What can I say? I was tired.)
Eme: Mama! Sing Waddddin.
Me: Ok, I'll sing Aladdin. "Unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings, soaring tumbling..."
Eme: No! Sing pwince weeeee.
Me: Ok, I'll sing Prince Ali. "Prince Ali, handsome is he, Ali Ababwa. Something something and something definitely."
Eme: No more sumping sumping.
Me: (racking my brain to try to remember the words that I have replaced with "something something") "Prince Ali, mighty is he, Ali Ababwa. Strong as ten regular men, definitely...?"
Eme: Guuu job, mama.
Me: Time to go to sleep, Eme.
She's getting too smart for my own good.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wonder Baby Wednesday #24
Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of...gangsta' leprechaun.
Everyone's after her lucky charms (and she certainly has a lot of charm), but you'd better watch out if you get too close. She'll take you down--with her lethal smile. :)
Yes, I know it's late for St. Patrick's Day. Yes, she is wearing a Notre Dame hat. It belongs to Andreas; isn't that enough explanation?
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Parenting "Thought of the Day" #2
Things (I didn't realize until now) that I have to ask my mom:
1) When we finished a coloring book, did you throw it out? Did we ever miss it?
2) How many of our toys (or scraps of paper we were attached to) did you accidentally vacuum up? How long did it take for us to get over it?
These are just a few more things you don't need to think about until you do.
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1) When we finished a coloring book, did you throw it out? Did we ever miss it?
2) How many of our toys (or scraps of paper we were attached to) did you accidentally vacuum up? How long did it take for us to get over it?
These are just a few more things you don't need to think about until you do.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wonder Baby Wednesday #23
Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of....evil genius.
Couldn't you tell by the goatee?
Or, wait, is it just that this blueberry smoothie is really good?
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wonder Baby Wednesday #22
Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of...Lady! (Andreas is the Tramp)Can you guess what movie we got from the library this week?
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Eme Dueeetsef
My baby has been turning into a toddler gradually over a number of months now, but lately she's REALLY begun asserting her independence.
She loves to say "dueetsef" (pronounced "dew EEt sef"). What she means is that she'd like to do something by herself, with no help. This exclamation is sometimes accompanied by an exhortation for mommy to "go'way," as in "Mommy go'way! Eme doeetsef!"
Eme will exclaim in this way over tasks big and small. Some days she wants to try to dress herself, hold her own cup (or my cup, which is usually bigger and made of glass, so you can imagine why I'd want to help her hold it), type on the computer, push play on the DVD player, put on shoes, take off shoes, climb onto a chair, climb into her tutu, dump something out, clean something up, and so on, and so on.
It's strange for me to feel both needed and not needed at the same time. Of course she still needs help, but she also needs to feel, and to some extent to actually be, independent.
It's becoming so that a little hug and kiss before Eme runs to her next adventure is now a boon, when I had been used to it being the norm. It's the time when mommy is increasingly the mean lady who makes Eme wear pants so that she doesn't get cold, rather than the lady I used to be who was actually in charge of wardrobe.
I guess it's time that mommy has to grow out of automatically taking things over that I used to know Eme couldn't do by herself as she becomes more adventurous, and more capable, every single day.
That's my toddler.
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She loves to say "dueetsef" (pronounced "dew EEt sef"). What she means is that she'd like to do something by herself, with no help. This exclamation is sometimes accompanied by an exhortation for mommy to "go'way," as in "Mommy go'way! Eme doeetsef!"
Eme will exclaim in this way over tasks big and small. Some days she wants to try to dress herself, hold her own cup (or my cup, which is usually bigger and made of glass, so you can imagine why I'd want to help her hold it), type on the computer, push play on the DVD player, put on shoes, take off shoes, climb onto a chair, climb into her tutu, dump something out, clean something up, and so on, and so on.
It's strange for me to feel both needed and not needed at the same time. Of course she still needs help, but she also needs to feel, and to some extent to actually be, independent.
It's becoming so that a little hug and kiss before Eme runs to her next adventure is now a boon, when I had been used to it being the norm. It's the time when mommy is increasingly the mean lady who makes Eme wear pants so that she doesn't get cold, rather than the lady I used to be who was actually in charge of wardrobe.
I guess it's time that mommy has to grow out of automatically taking things over that I used to know Eme couldn't do by herself as she becomes more adventurous, and more capable, every single day.
That's my toddler.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Wonder Baby Wednesday #21
What? It's Wednesday and I'm posting a WBW? Strange.
Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of....a snow angel!
Yes, my stinky angel made her first snow angel, and it was beautiful.
All the way up until she accidentally got snow down her back. Then it was tragic for a few minutes. Stinky mommy, using the camera instead of keeping snow out of her baby's coat!
Don't worry, though. We were all happy again once hugs and kisses and the warm air inside the house had all been liberally applied to the "wound." :)
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Wonder Baby Powers, activate! Form of....a snow angel!
Yes, my stinky angel made her first snow angel, and it was beautiful.
All the way up until she accidentally got snow down her back. Then it was tragic for a few minutes. Stinky mommy, using the camera instead of keeping snow out of her baby's coat!
Don't worry, though. We were all happy again once hugs and kisses and the warm air inside the house had all been liberally applied to the "wound." :)
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