I'm sure countless people have suggested to "write it down or you'll never remember!" Well, in my case, the writing down part isn't so hard as remembering where I put the paper I wrote it down on. I have a slight problem with setting things down and forgetting all about them. It's especially frustrating when some of your best material is on this said sheet of paper and you have no idea where it went! Argh!
Well, on that note I'm going to try and remember some of the things on a long list of Jentri-isms that I wrote down so I could remember. :) Some of them are a little more beginning-of-the- summer-ish, so if you've heard them please bear with me.
**Before we put Jen down for her nap one day, we were singing, "Teach Me to Walk in the Light." Halfway through the second verse Jen looks up at the light on the ceiling and says, "I don't wanna walk in dair (there), I faw-o(fall) and get huwhat (hurt)!" I'm pretty sure the song doesn't say, "teach me to walk in the light on the ceiling." Hmm, we'll have to work on that one.
**Giving options for Jen's Halloween costume:
Mommy: "You could be a witch, do you wanna be a witch?"
Jen (rolling her eyes as she brings her hand down the side of her face): "But I'd be a scaywe (scary) witch if I did dat!"
Well, I suppose that could be true...since all witches are bound to be scary. :)**We were in the front room looking out the window, and Jen asks, "Mommy, is Daddy coming yet?" I replied with something like, "No, not for a while." Jen scared me as she gasped and plopped herself down on the couch. She explained, "I gotta sweep (sleep) so he comed!" So Jake works late sometimes, what can we say? :)
**We were eating a hanngummer (hamburger) and fwies at Wendy's a while back and I was explaining to Jen as many mothers do, "You need to eat all your lunch so you can grow big and strong..." and turned to get something out of the diaper bag for Emma. I turned back and Jen was standing up in her high chair. As I'm telling her to sit down, she, with hangummer in hand, flexes and exclaims for all to hear, "Wook Mommy, now I big and stwong!" Remind me to thank Wendy's for having broken straps on their high chairs. :) And remind me to thank Jake for teaching her about the "gun show." If nothing else it made me (and the rest of the restaurant) smile. ;)**We went into JoAnn's to get something crafty, I can't remember what. Anyway, I got the girls in the cart and proceeded to shop. Jen got a stern look on her face and said, "Mommy, don't touch, just look." Wow, do I really sound like that?! Awesome!
**She was trying to reach the doorknob and matter of factly said, "I need a gwoh bigger so I can weach stuff." I just laughed, but all the while I was thinking, "you and me both, kiddo."
**My all time favorite story happened yet again at bedtime when Jen had picked "Itsy bitsy Spider" for her song. We were on our way to her room and I sang, "Itsy bitsy Jentri, it's time to go to bed." Without missing a beat she sings back, "Itsy bitsy Mommy, it's time to cween up da house." Not sure how I should take that, but I was laughing too hard to be offended. Man, she cracks me up. Where does she come up with this stuff?
Like I said, it was a long list! More to come I'm sure!!
