She loves me...

I caught Alie singing a song she made up. Made me the happiest momma in the world!! She was singing "Mommy is my favorite, I love mommy the most (repeat)". Luckily her Daddy didn't hear her, I would have felt so bad. Even though she has her daddy's girl moments, she made up for it :P.

When I heard her singing that, I dropped to my knees and immediately hugged and kissed her. Told her that was the nicest thing she has ever said to me. Hearing your child say things like that, unprompted, makes all the naughty things they ever did, disappear instantly. It makes being a mom totally worth it!!

P.S. and yes, I'm still feeling guilty for the big time out she had for breaking the TV, but then it dried and wasn't broken. I guess the time out was worth it in the long run because she has yet to question my authority since then. If I mention time out or anything punishment wise, she doesn't argue, back talk, or continue being naughty. She immediately does what I say. Yay for that!! OH and she accidentally spilt a little apple juice on the table today. I walked into the room and she was cleaning it up with a napkin as fast as her little arms could clean. Another proud beaming momma moment!! She's listening to me, Hallelujah!!


Two more funny things she said today:

I asked her to get me a blanket off her bed (yeah I was being lazy). She huffs, "Give me a break!" She did go get it for me despite her distaste.

She wanted some yogurt for snack. I tell her to grab a straw while I was getting the yogurt. She cheerfully says "Comin' right up!"

I'm so bored and think I've begun the nesting syndrome. I want to shop so badly. I also been going through cleaning and organizing spurts. Too bad I didn't feel like that today. Today I was just bored.

I took Alie swimming again. We brought her floatie swim suit and I let her try that out for a while. She swam on her own for 15 min.!! Of course I always stayed within arms reach. I'm just so proud that she was swimming around the pool, like a doggie as she says. She was even brave enough to jump in the pool w/o me catching her. She'd go completely underwater and everything!

When we got home from swimming, the neighbors across the street had a car in the driveway and was honking his horn. Alie turned towards them and yelled "Would you knock it off!?"

I finally took Alie swimming today. She had a blast. She has become better in the water, holding her breath and such. She even jumped into the water, into my arms. She hasn't taken swim lessons since last spring, but surprisingly, she remembers some of it.

We also embellished one of her swim suits. It was a plain lavender with a skirt. No decoration, no design... just blah boring. She hated it because it was so boring. It also fit her poorly. The straps crossed in the back, but were way too long, so it showed her nipples. So to fix that problem, I cut the straps and made it be able to tie into a halter. For the embellishments, I had her choose the flowers to go on the suit and an iron on. She chose matching lavendar flowers and purple irridecent butterflies. I sewed the butterflies on insted of iron, so that way the wings would be loose, like fluttering. The suit turned out really pretty and she now loves it! Once I get some batteries for my camera, I'll post a pic.

the beating of your heart :D
One more funny from Alie...

I asked her what her heart says. She put her hand over her heart and said "Hicky Honk!!!" I have no idea where she got that from, but she has replied with that answer a few times today. Plus, she says it so casually, like it's a fact.
Cracks me up!!!

I had a really horrible night with Alie on Sunday. I went to bed at 4am, insomnia got the best of me. Then apparently after I passed out, Kriss accidentally woke Alie up when he was getting ready for work. So he put her in bed with me. She kept rolling around and moving, so woke me up at about 5am. I asked her what her problem was and she replied "This pillow is too hard."

I put her back in her bed, since it had better pillows. ;) Then she proceeded to yell or fake cry every 20 minutes. I went in there, trying to talk her into sleeping. She told me she wanted to get up (at 6am) and watch cartoons. I told her that because it was still dark out, that the cartoons were still asleep, they weren't on yet. She looked at me and told me matter-of-factually "Cartoons don't have a bed!!" She did eventually go to sleep, at 7 am.


Anyway, random funny things she has said to me lately...

She was carrying around something that she had tucked partially in the side of her pants. After asking what it was, she patted it with pride and said, "It's a hundred bucks!!" Turns out it was an advertisement magnet, but did have money on it.

We've been asking her where her body parts and internal organs are. Kriss asked her where her brain was and she said "I don't know, it's lost."

She was watching a little animated icon on LJ. She asks me "What is that? A monkey or a little guy? Which ones??" Then proceeds to explain "He's yelling like he has bugs in his mouth". It was a domokun icon :O)

Oh she makes chocolate pies now. Actually, it's just empty stackable tupperware, but she has them all stacked up in her baby stroller. She pushes it around and tries to sell these invisible chocolate pies to Kriss and I. The price of these delicacies.... $100 bucks.