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Tracy was doing school with Connor and Annalise walked in wanting to tell mommy something. She walked in saying it. Well… not quite saying it but more like mumbling it. She said it again when she had Tracy’s attention. But Tracy still didn’t understand so she said, ‘Say what?’.
Annalise cocked her head quizickly and sheepishly said, ‘what?!?’
At which point Tracy started laughing. Here’s the kicker tho. Connor started busting out laughing too and when he started it made Tracy laugh even more because he understood.
I had to put both kids to bed tonight at roughly the same time. As a result I sat in the rocking chair and read them both a bedtime story and then tucked them in. When I left I half-way closed the door and started feeding the turtle. At that time I hear Annalise saying, ‘knock knock, knock knock.’ and then Connor, ‘Daddy!’.
So I walk into the room and start up my speech about being quiet and paddling and such. Before I get started too much Connor interjects, ‘Daddy, let me tell you somethin… She tells ‘knock knock’ jokes ALL night long!’.
We were putting Annalise to bed for the night. Doing the nightly routine of night-night kisses, going to the bathroom, negotiating over how many books to read, etc. However, this night Annalise wasn’t too excited about going to bed. At the end of the story she started asking about not going to bed. I told her that it was time to go to sleep, that we know it’s time to goto sleep when the sun goes down and it gets dark. Well. After getting down off my lap and on her way to get in bed, she detours to the window, looks outside and emphatically says, ‘Wake up sun!!!’.
Annalise isn’t much of conversatinalist… but she is a tiny little engineer… or should I say de-engineer. She keeps getting herself into things and into various types of troubles. Trace likes to say that she’s our little Tom Sawyer. Up till this point we haven’t really kept track of things… but we’re gonna start now. And have a picture record of it too if we can think about it.
Up till now, what kind of things are we talking about? Let’s see:
- We caught her digging lillypads out of the 55 gallon aquirium. They were all hanging out with water dripping down the side of the tank. Trace wondered if she caught any fish.
- She found our cleaning supplies and was spraying Formula 409 all over the place… on walls, on furniture, etc… Trace even wondered if she had sprayed it into the fish tank.
- She became fond of feeding turtle-man, or ‘Man!’ as she calls him. We HAD two types of food. We only have one now because Trace found a nearly new can of food completely emptied into his water bowl. Man! was hiding under turtle pellet food.
- She got into the sugar or flour and had it spread all over the counters and floor in the kitchen.
- She climbed up on the counters in their bathroom and used the hand sanitizer and lotions all over her body and all over the mirror. (a picture of that will be added shortly to this post)
- She’s gotten to be a little artsy over the past couple of weeks. Too bad it is all over the walls and furniture (just like her mommy usta do).
- She’s opened the door a couple of times and let Jazmin run the neighborhood.
It was about time for Annalise’s nap today so I said to Tracy something like, ‘I’m going to put her down for her nap in just a bit.’ At that point Annalise sighs and goes ‘Uh-oh’.
Annalise enjoys making fun of bodily functions. That’s very tom-boyish of her isn’t it. But she doesn’t own up to it… that’s very girlish of her. Here’s a typical exchange between mommy and her:
Annalise: **ppfffffftttt**
Mommy: Ewwwww, Annalise! Did you do that?
Annalise: Noooo! You!
Mommy: *I* didn’t do it!
Annalise: Doll! *pointing at the doll with a big GRIN*
Mommy: Uh-Uhn! You did that.
Annalise: *another big GRIN* Me!!
This past week Annalise has finally started picking up alot of vocabulary. Well, the first new word of the week was ‘No’. How she said it was so cute and I was surprised that she picked up a new word I wanted her to repeat it. Here’s kinda how the conversation went:
Me: Did you just say a new word?
Annalise: mmNo
Me: Wow, You can say ‘No’.
Annalise: mmNo
Me: Can you say it again?
Annalise: mmNo
Me: Can you say it again?
Annalise: mmNo!!
Me: Can you say it again?
Annalise: mmNO!!!
She got louder and louder and firmer with her “No’s.” It was funny and cute at the same time. Now, if it could only stay so cute when she says it. But I know that’s not going to happen.
I’ve started riding a motorcycle. A loud one. You can hear it. You can really hear it.
Annalise meets me at the garage door when I come home cause she can hear it. I open the door and she’s right there waiting with a big, ‘Daa-ddyy!’ and a smile.
Well… I was informed that whenever everyone is in the car riding around in town and a motorcycle goes by Annalise promptly exclaims, ‘Daa-ddyy!’. And Connor immediately answers, ‘That’s not Daddy’. That continues for a little bit until Mommy stops it.
Just the other day, that happened WHILE I WAS DRIVING THE CAR. For the life of me, I don’t know how Annalise figures I was driving the car AND riding my motorcycle.
Annalise had her three week checkup today. She weighed in at 9lbs 6ozs and measured 21.5″ long. This puts her in the 75th percentile for all measurements. Now… if she was actually born on her due date she’d be in the 100th percentile right now. 😆
Welp. This morning started out good. Woke up promptly at 6am. Showered and got ready. I didn’t have to iron because I did that the night before. Changed Annalises diaper and gave her to Mommy for her breakfast and headed out the door by 7:15am.
Woot! I was on time finally after late starts because of Annalise’s feeding/sleeping schedule messing with my sleep.
Things were looking good. Got in my car and drove off. Tuned it into the Sky as I was pulling out of the neighborhood and he’s talking about having to work on a holiday. WHAT!!!! That’s right, I got spiffed up, tie and everything, just to take the trash out this morning. UF was closed, I didn’t have to go in to work.
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