My Friends!

Buggy calls her stuffed animals and toys her "friends". I'll hear her playing in her room and yell, "oh no, my friends are stuck. We have to save them". When I walk into her room, I'll find that her animals have either been shoved into her kitchen oven, or she's jammed them into her closet. Then we have to rescue all of her friends and ask them if they are okay. If they are hurt, we have to pull out her doctor's kit and she inspects them with all of her doctor tools and then proclaims, "there, you are all better."

She also likes to play the piggy game. This consists of her pulling coins out of daddy's wallet and running upstairs to feed her piggy bank. Once she drops the coins in, she grabs the pig's face and asks, "you feel better now, piggy?".

When I was picking her up out of her bathtub she had to say goodnight to all of her friends. Goodnight Ariel, goodnight boat, goodnight dora, goodnight Flounder...after a few minutes of her saying goodnight to everything she could find - including her soap, she finally said - okay, we can go to my room now.

At night when I carry her from her changing table to the bed, she decides that she's either a fairy, a dragon or a quiet dragon. The "quiet dragon" means I swing her around to fly around the room while she whispers, "roar".

Before we leave the room, daddy and I have to obey her instructions..."kiss sleep sack, kiss other sleep sack, kiss Diego, kiss mommy, kiss Evie. Buenos noches."

Snow Day

We had around five inches of snow at our house. When Little Bug got home from the nanny, she immediately ran to put on a princess nightgown. I told her she could either put on her princess nightgown and stay inside or we could bundle up and go play in the snow. Her jaw hit the floor and she looked at me and yelled "Playinthesnow!".

So I bundled her up with tons of layers and put her rain boots on. She kept grabbing toys that she "needed" to take in the snow. I got her to put most of them away, except for her bag of Easter eggs. She looked at me with her serious face and said, "I have to play with eggs in the snow".

We let her out on our deck first to clomp around and she got a kick out of scooping up snow with her Easter eggs. Then we took her out front and to the side of our house where a ton of snow was piled up. I scooped up a snow ball and said, "I'm going to peg you buggy" and I nailed her with a snow ball. She looked at me with a mixture of shock and got a sly little smile since she realized that she could now hit me too with snow balls. She kept yelling, "I'm going to peg you mommy!" and scooped up snow with her little mittens and alternatively smashed snow into my jeans.

Little bug also kept scooping up snow and eating it. She said to me, "oh wow mommy, this snow is good" like she was a little snow consosiour.

She and daddy made a snowman, and when we walked around the neighborhood to slide down the hill (she wasn't too sure of sledding) she kept saying, "snow man...where are you..." and then she told daddy and I that the snowman left.

Once we were back at our house, I made her hot chocolate and she grabbed it in her little hands and said, "this is my favorite!".

Grammar Lesson

I was getting Little Bug ready for bed tonight and I asked her what she did during the day. She said, I feed my friends (stuffed bear, Lady, Winnie the Pooh). So I corrected her and said "you fed your friends", it's in the past tense. She looked at me with all seriousness and said, "okay I fed my friends past tense."