So being pregnant with your second child makes it much harder to find time to sit down and reflect on the wonderfully creative and hilarious things that your preschooler says and does. I love writing a bout Mariella and how unique and sometimes unpredictable she is. But this last year has been very hectic. So, instead of many posts, I've accumulated a summary of many of the funny things she has said in this last year. And, now that Max is here, my pledge for 2014 is to do a better job at getting on here and writing more in depth about the crazy adventures of a mother of two. Anyway, here are some highlights of 2013:
April 5, 2013
Negotiating with a 3 year old:
Me: Do you want candy or a cookie because you can't have both.
Mariella: I want a cookie.
Me: Ok, so that means you can't have candy. So you want a cookie?
Mariella: Yes.
Me: Okay, here's your cookie. Now don't ask me for candy, okay?
Mariella: I can have candy later.
Me: No, you can have a cookie today and that's all. Maybe you can have candy tomorrow.
Mariella: Ok, I'll have candy tomorrow.
(Cookie gets eaten.)
Mariella: Mommy, I don't want a cookie, I want candy.
Me: But you already ate the cookie.
Mariella: But I don't want the cookie. I want candy.
July 4, 2013
So, the other day Mariella declared that only mommies have babies in their bellies. She told Chris that daddies and little girls don't have babies in their bellies. So Chris, trying to tease her, sticks his belly out and told her that he in fact did have a baby in his belly too. Apologetically Mariella patted his stomach and said, "No daddy, you're just fat."
July 4, 2013
Last night, Chris took Mariella to see fireworks but because of traffic after the show, they got home really late. She came in the door around 11:30pm so excited. I thought she was going to tell me how awesome the fireworks were. But instead she said, "Mommy, I'm nocturnal!"
July 6, 2013
So first let me say that I think it's amazing that a 3 year old knows all the words to at least five of the top ten hits regularly played on the radio recently, but yesterday we were in the car listening to the radio and from the back we suddenly here, "Daddy turn this up this is one of my bands!"
Nov. 11, 2013
Mariella: Mom I want to go to Juggy Jesus.
Me: Where?
Mariella: Juggy Jesus. It's where a kid can be a kid.
Me: Oh, you mean Chucky Cheese's?
Mariella: Yeah, Chucky Cheese's. It's where a kid can be a kid. I want to go there.
Dec. 21, 2013
A little too much Super Why?
Me: Mariella, please don't spill your soup.
Mariella: But I have to spill my soup. I can't help it. It's in my story.
Me: It's not in your story. You write your own story because your a little girl not a character in a book.
Mariella: No mommy, it's in my story, see? "Mariella spills her soup."
Dec. 23, 2013
Mariella: (To me as I'm getting dressed after my shower) Mommy, your boobies shake just like daddy's.
Me: (Laughing) What?? Daddy's boobies shake?
Mariella: (Whispers and giggles with her hand to her mouth) Yeah, hee, hee.
Me: No they don't! Daddy doesn't have boobies. You're silly. (He really doesn't. I don't know where she was getting this)
Mariella: Well, he doesn't really have boobies like yours. Yours are enormous!
Dec. 23, 2013
Lately, Mariella's TV privileges have opened up to include Sprout, which has commercials. Up until this year, she always only watched PBS, and so she never really saw a lot of commercials, which was great because I never liked exposure to stuff that would automatically make her think she wants it. I liked that she never saw a Barbie commercial or Pilllow Pets commercial, etc. It made life so much easier. But, we love Sprout, so I compromised. However, now she has not only viewed commercials, she has memorized them and become these companies' self appointed representative. Every day, she comes running up to me now with a very convincing sales pitch.
"Mommy, we gotta get Oxyclean."
"Why, Mariella?"
"Because it gets the tough stains out. We need that to get our tough stains out, Mommy."
"Mommy, when we put up our Christmas decorations, we need to use Command Brand."
"Oh, we do?"
"Yeah, we need to use Command Brand for all our decorating needs."
(Then she proceeds to explain to me in detail how the products work.)
"Mommy, we have to buy Gummy Vitamins."
"Really?"
"Yeah, so we don't have to have hard vitamins anymore. And they have them for adults and kids!"
