On Growing Up...

Little bug was going through my purse and found some gum. I told her that she couldn't have any because she's not big enough yet. She looked at me and asked, "When I grow so big I can try them?" I told her yes, when she hits 42 inches she can chew gum. I asked her how tall she thinks she is now. She thought for a minute, looked at me and said, "I'm perfect." No self esteem issues with this one!

Little Sneak

On Monday night, we had put little bug to bed and I was downstairs watching the Bachelorette. Keep in mind that during the day, when little bug wakes up from her nap she'll sneak down the stairs and hide behind the wall that separates the kitchen from the living room and will watch TV if it is on and then she'll sneak around the corner to jump out at us. So on Monday night, I see a shadow for a second. I thought it was daddy because little bug has never come downstairs on her own at night.

When I didn't see daddy, I crept around the corner and there was little bug standing in her hiding spot with eyes as big as saucers since she didn't know if she was in trouble or not. I couldn't help but laugh and she jumped into my arms and said "I made you laugh mommy." Then she looked at the TV and said, "look mommy it is princess Ali and her other Prince Charming."

It was so funny. I had told her weeks ago that the Bachelorette was actually called Princess Ali as she tried to find her Prince Charming after she had gone to college and had a career. She clearly remembered. I took her upstairs and figured that since daddy hadn't heard her that he might be in the shower, so I told her she could sleep with me until she feel asleep and then she had to go to her room.

Of course, daddy was VERY surprised to find out that Little Bug had sneaked past him, and was even more surprised that she was going to sleep with us since I already promised her. Luckily it was a one night only deal - on Tuesday night when we put her to bed, we quizzed her. We asked her if she wakes up, what will she do? And she smiled and said, "stay in my bed and close my eyes and go back to sleep. I can't watch Princess Ali."

Maybe Not Today

Daddy has set up the slushie routine, whenever he picks up little bug from school they go to the QT and she gets to pick out a color slushie to drink on the drive home. He asked her if she was going to share her slushie and she thought for a while and said, "No, maybe not today, to-later".

To-later is her favorite word, she combined tomorrow with later and always asks us, "can we do that to-later?"

Animals are Stinky

I picked up little bug from pre-school and found out that they had a visit from some animals. On the drive home, I asked her what she thought of the animals....

me: Did you pet some animals today?
bug: (holding up two fingers as high as she could) Yes, and I could pet them with these two fingers. There was a rabbit, a chinchilla -
me: What did the chinchilla say?
bug: It was very soft and it said, Diego help me help me
me: Did you help it?
bug: no, I just petted it. The rabbit didn't have a tail, but it had a head, body, legs, ears, nose, mouth, paws....but no tail. I didn't feed it, my friends did, but it was stinky.
me: What other animals were there?
bug: a turtle, and something in the bucket but it was too stinky

I asked her if she'd like the animals better if they weren't stinky and she got a big smile and said, yes!