Conversations With Cute: Endearing Epigrams

During our Disney trip:
Me: Riley do you know the names of Ursula's pets?
Roo: Yeah! Flap Some and Get Some!!
(Flotsam and Jetsam are their names, as in what floats up from a shipwreck)

Roo: Mom, when I grow up I want to be a Disney bus driver!
Me: That sounds like fun, driving people to Disney all day!
Roo: Yeah, I'll be a ballerina, a paleontologist and a Disney bus driver!

Roo: (Washing her hands in the bathroom) Oh...it doesn't come on by itself here...No Disney Magic, huh?
Me: Nope we left that at Disney
Roo: Next time let's catch some (Disney Magic)!

Roo: (Sigh) Mom?
Me: What, Riley?
Roo: I just want to know why my Ariel doesn't come alive and flop around here. (referring to their toys coming alive and moving by Disney magic (aka housekeeping) when we left the hotel)

Me: What did you do at school today?
Roo: Made a letter S snake! With black pola dots.
Me: That sounds awesome
Roo: Yeah. Mom? What does awkward mean?
Me: Not quite right, doesn't fit in.
Roo: Mine is awesome, but my friends were...awkward, but I didn't tell them

Miss Roo recently regained possession of her Barbie Shoes.
Roo: I'll hang on to these shoes!
Me: Good idea, you don't want to loose them now that you have them back
Roo: Yeah! That would be unpleasant.

Me: I need you to clear your place, Riley
Roo: Ugh, stop criticizing!

Riley goes out to visit her dad while he's working in the yard. She runs back into the house and gets a quarter.
Roo:(gives the quarter to her dad) You're working hard, here's a tip

Half pjs half play clothes after nap.
Me: What's going on with your outfit?
Roo: The top half is adorable, the bottom is completely awkward

At her cousin's birthday Riley's aunt opens a new dress
Roo: That's exquisite!
(Various adult react, surprised)
(leaning in closer to her aunt) It's divine.

Playing Barbies in her room
Roo: Ok, concert time! (singing) Let it Go! Let it Go!
(A few minutes go by)
Roo: (singing) I got a bucket! Got a bucket full of sunshine! I got a bucket! Got a bucket! Bucket full of sunshine.

(Last Year's Haunted Hike)

Me: You're going to be good this year, right? You had a fit in the car last year and we almost missed it.
Roo: Yeah (thinks), if you're not good at the Haunted Hike Jack will tell Santa!
Me: You're right they totally know each other.
Roo: Yeah, they totally know each other because Jack needed a hat.

Conversations with Cute: Video Edition 2014

If you want to see previous cuteness click here: Three Year Old Video Interview and Last Year's Video.

What's your favorite color?
Red, Pink & Purple
Expanding her color horizons a bit

What's your favorite toy?
The penguin toy at my school.
What does it do?
It's a bobble head, You have to bobble it's head. It's a bobble head, when I pet one.

What's your favorite fruit?
My favorite fruit is...ah Dragon Fruit
He Dad brought one home the store the other day, the kids LOVED it.

What's your favorite tv show?
Everything is awesome.
Everything is awesome is not a tv show, Goose. It's from a movie. Is it Wild Kratts or Dora? Something with episodes.
Dora the Explorer.
(Daddy opens the door and Roo tells him he's going to be on the video)

What's your favorite food to eat for lunch?
I need to think a lot...steak (big smile)
It's news to me, We give it to her now and then, but she's never very excited about it.

What's your favorite clothes to wear?
I like to wear my Rapunzel dress. Yeah because I'm princess Rapunzel.

What's your favorite game to play? Is it the cupcake game?
Yes!!

What's your favorite snack?
Bread and cheese sticks

What's your favorite animal?
I like a sea otter

What's your favorite song?
Everything is Awesome!
(From the Lego Movie)

What's your favorite book?
Uh...bully goat
Llama Llama and the Bully Goat

Who's your favorite person to play with?
Savannah

What's your favorite food to eat for dinner?
(I have no idea what she said at first)
Isn't it chicken nuggets?
Chicken nuggets and meat
(Odd that she tacked meat in general on there)

What's your favorite thing to do outside?
Push the big blue ball into the slide so I can push it out again. I can slide down and push it out again.

What's your favorite thing to drink?
Um...Sprite
(She had her first Sprite last Christmas and hasn't had one since. Must have made an impression.)

Where's your favorite place to go?
Neverland

What do you like to do before bed?
Frangoline and the Midnight Dream I like to read that a lot!

What's your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Um..pancakes

What was your favorite thing you got for your birthday?
The Cupcake Game

What do you want to be when your all grown up?
A ballerina and a paleontologist. Paleontologists have to very serious.
Are you very serious?
No.
Do ballerinas have to be serious?
No.

Ok, look at Mommy, smile and say I'm 5!
I'm 5!

Conversations With Cute Spring 2014

In the car over the weekend Riley asked if she could watch Antz later. I thought it was pretty random, but I said sure. It never happened that day, but the next morning after breakfast she asked again.
Her brother put on Antz.
About 2 minutes of movie play...
"This isn't the right Antz!"
Mike tries to figure out what she means, he describes the later part of Antz.
"No, the one with the people in it"
He describes A Bugs Life, James and the Giant Peach, Fly Me to the Moon (she insists none of these are the movie she wants)
Riley thinks VERY hard for a few seconds... "Yellow Submarine!"
She was thinking of the "Beatles".

On the way home from school:
Don't let me pass our turn, ok Riley?
Ok mom. Just...just go straight and then...turn in the shape of the letter "L"
Ok thanks. This one?
Yes the brown one.
The one with eggs on the door?
Mom, who put those eggs there?
I did.
No, say like a joke that the Easter Bunny did.
Ok. Riley who put those there?
Who?
The Easter Bunny!
(Laughs)
Ok, now I'll tell you one...why did the Easter Bunny...um...poop on the eggs?
Ew, Riley. That's gross.
Oh
You should tell that joke to Isaac instead.
Oh, why? Does he like gross things?
Yes
Does he like poop?
Probably, it's gross
(Walks inside)Hey Isaac what do you like?
What?
She wants you to say poop.
What?
Say poop.
Isaac! What do you like?
Poop!
(Hysterical laughter)
(In an incredibly serious tone) Not really though, Riley. It's gross.

I went in to read to Riley's class yesterday. I got there early and watched their Greek lesson.
Greek Teacher: Who remembers what this song is about?
Riley: It's about bees that work very hard. They work hard to make their honey. Then a bear eats it! They get mad.
GT: Bravo, Riley
Another kid in Roo's class: Why does the bear eat the honey?
Roo's teacher: She made a mistake
Same kid: Oh, she made a mistake!
Different little boy: I LOVE steaks (he even licked his lips)
*I THINK he heard "she made him a steak", but who knows?

Riley are you excited to go see your friend's new house after school?
Yeah! I can't wait to use the bathroom!!
What?
Because it's Purple!
Oh, ok silly.

30 Days of Gratitude: Day 29

Day 29: I'm grateful that my kids are so gosh darn entertaining! It comes in especially handy when there home from school and over excited for several days in succession.

Me: Did you have a super day Riley?
Roo:Yes!
Me: What did you do?
Roo: I did everything you can think of!
Me: You did? Did you sing a song?
Roo: Yes. But I didn't sing TURKEY songs I sang "Who's Here Today"
Me: Oh, was everyone at school today?
Roo: Yes
Me: That's good!
Roo: Why?
Me: I like your school friends. They're all nice.
Roo: Um, no. They're not.
Me: They're not? Who isn't nice?
Roo: (thinking) All of them sometimes, but when they look into the future they're all nice.

While painting turkey plates:
Me: Here's brown Riley
Roo: Oh, for the turkey?
Me: Yes
Roo: For the live turkey? Because live turkeys are brown.
Me: Um, yes.
Roo: And pink for the dead ones.
(laughter)
We did not make any dead turkeys if you're wondering.

Me: Tonight we're going to toast S'mores!
(later that day)
Roo: (Obviously haven gotten her wires crossed) Mom, When are we going to smoke cigarettes?
Me: What?!? You mean, make S'mores?
Roo: Yeah, is it time?
Me: Not yet.
(Even later that day)
Roo: Mom, When are we going to smoke cigarettes?
Me: Make S'mores, honey
Roo: Yeah, is it time?
Me: Not yet.
(That night)
Roo: We're going to smoke cigarettes!
Me: Make S'mores, honey!
Roo: Yeah!

In Home Depot Roo and I got separated from Mike and Isaac.
Me: Riley, do you see Daddy?
Roo: Um...no
Me: Me either...hmmm...Maybe he went to the Christmas lights
Roo: No, I know where he is!
Me: (Looking around) Where?
Roo: (without hesitation) He got arrested by an old guy,
Me: (laughing) I don't think so
Roo: Yeah, he got arrested by Old Nick

Me: Isaac, check the living room and see if there are any toys that need to be put away
Isaac: It looks like Santa came early. There's a stocking full of toys in here.
Me: Oh, I gave Riley an extra one to play with. Just set it in her room.
Roo: Yeah, Santa had to come early. He had to come to early because he got fired and he needed to tell us!

Conversations with Cute: Video Edition 2013

If you want to see 3yr old cuteness click here: Last Year's Video Interview

What's your favorite color?
Hmmm...Purple
Same as last year.

What's your favorite toy?
(points and then after I tell her to say it) Shopping cart!
(She got a pink shopping cart from her grandparents a year or two ago.)

What's your favorite fruit?
Hmmm...Strawberry

What's your favorite tv show?
Super Readers
(Super Why on PBS)

What's your favorite food to eat for lunch?
Chicken Nuggets

What's your favorite clothes to wear?
I like the Rapunzel shirt I found on the scavenger hunt
(We did a Scavenger hunt to tell the kids we were going to Disney this summer. Here's the shirt she's talking about.)

What's your favorite game to play?
Candyland

What's your favorite snack?
Chocolate (Laughs)

What's your favorite animal?
Giraffe! It's tall so it wouldn't fit in our house. (laughing)

What's your favorite song?
Laurie Berkner. The Birthday Song.
(I think the name of the song is: "Where is the Cake")

What's your favorite book?
Sofia's Sleep Over

Who's your favorite person to play with?
Gracie

What's your favorite food to eat for dinner?
Pizza!
(The same as last year)

What's your favorite thing to do outside?
Play on my castle. (Also, the same as last year)

What's your favorite thing to drink?
Chocolate Milk

Where's your favorite place to go?
Disney!

What do you like to do before bed?
I like to play!

What's your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Oatmeal

What was your favorite thing you got for your birthday?
The Robot Pinkie Pie
(Mommy gave her Walking Talking Pinkie Pie)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A ballerina

Ok, can you at Mommy's camera and smile and say I'm 4!
I'm 4!

Conversations with Cute: Fall Edition

At School, The End of Nap Time
Roo is laying quietly on her cot waiting for her friends to wake up
Parker starts talking to her
Roo: SSSHHH! We're supposed to be sleeping.
Miss D: That's right Riley, we need to be quiet now
Roo: It's ok Miss D he just wants to talk to me because I'm a beautiful girl.
Miss D tries not to laugh
Parker: She IS beautiful!

Referring to the white ballet slippers I asked her to wear around the house before I add jewels for her Halloween costume
Roo: Dad, look! (showing him her feet) Mom keeped these on her dresser for 1,000 years!
Dad: For how long?
Roo: 1,000 years!!

Roo is Looking at the spot where my bandaid was
Mom: I got superpowers too, but not the same as yours
Roo: I know! So you don't get the flute!
Mom: (Laughing) The Flu.

My long awaited Halloween Costume arrives. The first one I ordered was too small.
Roo: Try it on, right now!
Mom: (I try it on) How does it look Riley?
Roo: Um, good. Now turn around.
(I turn around)
Roo: Yup! Your butt is NOT hanging out. You can keep this one.

PS: Vote for Big Brother Isaac's Preying Mantis costume in the Halloween Picture contest by clicking this link and than clicking like on his picture. Thanks!!

Conversations With Cute

This is a picture of Miss Roo excitedly perched on top of the box containing the cotton candy machine we got for her birthday. I'm pretty sure she was just planning to live there until the party.

Playing in the bathtub:
Roo: Mommy, be a mermaid too!
Me: But if I'm a mermaid who will be the mommy?
Roo: It's ok. One of us can be the mommy mermaid and one of us can be the baby.
(pause) (very thoughtfully)That's how life changes, you know.

On the potty
Roo: Mom?
Me: What?
Roo: How come the poop always goes with pee?
Me: Excuse me?
Roo: They're like sidekicks!
(I'm laughing)
Roo: What's a sidekick?

After dropping my phone and detaching the case she apologetically fixes it.
Roo: It has an ah-touch-ment, Mom. And I touched it
Translation- It has an attachment and I attached it!

To distract her while brushing her hair I asked her to spell her name
Roo: R-I-L...
Me: E
Roo: (Whispering) It has a quiet e, but it's there.
Me: Ok then what?
Roo: (suspicious I wasn't listening) Um, it has a quiet e! I told you.
Me: No, I meant Y
Roo: Um, that's how you say Y in french
Me: A quiet e?
Roo: Yes!

On the way in the door of school on the first day Riley was greeted by several friendly folks, but was uncharacteristically non-responsive to their greetings. When I asked her why she was so quiet she said:
I have...a lot right now, Mom. And I'm...um..not...open right now.
I clarified that she was thinking about things and didn't want to talk what a nut!

On a school day in the morning in the car:
Roo:Hand me my back pack as soon as I'm buckled.
Me:Ok
Roo:It's just very important that I hold it.
Me: Ok, here (handing it to her)
Roo: Now shut the door!
Me: Ok (starting to wonder...)
(As soon as I sit behind the wheel)
Roo:Don't turn around mom
That's when I knew she was up to something. She was trying to sneak Snow White into school with her! Silly girl.

This morning after two pieces of cinnamon raisin french toast, two pieces of turkey bacon, orange juice and a bite of my eggs.
Roo:Can I have a piece of your bacon?
Me:You had your own bacon already
Roo:Mom! I can't find evil on an empty stomach
How could I say no to that?

Conversations With Cute

Riley and I ran inside from the pool and jumped in a bath tub full of warm water with our bathing suits on. Since we were in our suits and in a hurry to get warm we left the door open. The dog thought this was fascinating. She wondered in and out checking on us and drinking the bath water. After one of her visits Riley said:
Mommy Leeloo thinks we're swimming in her water dish!

Sometimes my kids really surprise me. This coveration Riley and I had while I pushed her on the swing was more strange than funny.

Roo:Can we get a guinea pig?
Mom: No, we already have a hamster.
Roo: Oh.
Mom: You like Gertie.
Roo: Yeah. When we don't have Gertie anymore can we get a guinea pig?
Mom: I don't think so.
(Riley thinks this over)
Roo: Will it chase monsters away?
Mom: What? A guinea pig?
Roo: Yeah! Will the guinea pig chase monsters away?
Mom: Gertie will chase monsters away for you...or Leeloo!
Roo:(I heard) Does the wind chase clothes away?
Mom: What?!?
(She gives me a funny look)
Mom: Did you ask if the wind blows your clothes?
Roo: No. Listen To Me. The wind chases crows away.
Mom: Oh, crows!
Roo: So do farmers.
Mom: Yes, because they eat things out of the garden. That's why Daddy doesn't like them.
Roo: Are crows scary?
Mom: Maybe, but I don't think so. Some people might be scared of them.
Roo: Because they eat the mulberries!

A conversation between Riley and Isaac in the pool
Are you a princess?
No, I'm human actually!

Riley picked up a stuffed dalmatian at her friend's house:
Can I borrow this dimension?

Riley finds a bug and sweetly asks:
Um, do we have to eliminate it?

The night before our zoo trip I was having trouble getting her into bed
Me: Where are we going tomorrow Riley?
(No answer)
Me: You don't remember where we're going tomorrow?
Roo: I do, but I don't want to tell you because I don't want to go to bed.

Riley asked me when dinner would be ready. When I told her we were working on it she said:
I know that the corn has to be cobbed, Mom!

As I pulled into a regular parking space the other day Isaac exclaims:
Are you allowed to park here?!?

Me to Mike:
What's wrong with my neck?
Mike to Me:
Pirate curse.

Conversations With Cute

Me:Do you like these jeans, Riley? (her new big girl jeans-above)
Riley:Yeah! They are cute-ing my head off!

Me: Are you ready to go play with our friend?
Riley: Mom, that's so special! That is special-ing me out!

Discussing Dr. Seuss' body of work.
Me: He wrote One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham...
Riley: And Ninja Turtles!!
Me: No honey. He wrote The Lorax, Hortan Hears a Who, The Sneetches...
Riley: AND NINJA TURTLES!!
Me: No Sweetie, Dr Seuss did NOT write Ninja Turtle.
Riley: Who wrote Ninja Turtles?
Me: I'm not sure.
Riley: It was Dr. Seuss.

Daddy's turn for a funny:
Me: Mike hand me a new deodorant from the shelf, please.
(he is instantly overwhelmed because there's more than one choice)
Mike: Um, which one?
Me: It doesn't matter
(He hands me a new deodorant) Mike: This is a special clear one, for when you go topless

Riley: This snow globe doesn't light up anymore. Can you fix it?
Mike: The light fell out a long time a go.
Riley: Oh, put another one in.
Mike: I don't have another one, but you can put your Dora flashlight under it and it will light up.
Riley: (running towards her room) Ok!
(having been unable to locate her flashlight she has set the snowglobe on the lamp of her minors helmet)
Mike & I: Good idea, Riley. You did it, etc...
Riley: I didn't find my flashlight so I used this! Am I a gen-ee-ious?

Me: I'm in the bathroom, Riley.
Riley: Oh, I will leave you alone to potty. I'll go back to what I was doing.

Conversations With Cute: Just Because

Shall we? Shall we, Mom? (long pause)Miss Frizzle says shall we.
Santa brought the kids the complete Magic School Bus series on DVD. Both kids are HUGE fans.

I was reading Riley a bedtime story: Barbie's Perfect Christmas.
Me (reading):"The girls sang together. They didn't fight anymore."
Riley: What do the boys do? (pause) Do they fight for China?
I laughed so hard I teared up. I think I've mentioned before that's she's a big Mulan fan.

Me: Riley pick up your shoes
Riley: (Without missing a beat):Do I have to? Who made up THAT rule?

Mom, I have to go the potty
Ok, go
It's driving me nuts
Having to go potty?
Mo-om! It's driving me UP a Wall!

Apparently, she and Daddy discussed what would happen if Roo fell asleep on the potty and they concluded she would get cold and dream that penguins were licking her bottom. I didn't know any of that had taken place when I walked into the bathroom and she yelled:
Mom, penguins won't lick my butt.

Me: Why is that woman running down the road right next to the jogging path?!?
Riley: Are you mad, Mommy?
Me: Well, it's not very smart. She could get hurt.
Riley: Mom, that lady is a...Bum in the tuchus!

Me to Mike: Check and see if you have the address on your Facebook
Mike: Ok, but I know it's on yours
Riley:(Singing & Dancing) Your Facebook or My Facebook! (on repeat)

After leaving the grocery store with a new pink ball.
Riley: I told the lady thank you! She let me borrow this pink ball
Me: No she sold Mommy and Daddy that ball for $2.
Riley: Oh! I got this ball for TWO DOLLARS!!! (with Christmas morning level enthusiasm)

Conversations With Cute: the Hits Keep on Comming

Riley comes out of the bathroom in my novelty shower cap
Look it's like an umbrella for your head when you have a fancy hairstyle

At the store
I'm going to the bar!
The bar?
The balls!!
Runs over
Time to go
I'll see you later balls

Does cat in the hat rhyme?
Yes
(several other word pairs until she starts the nonsense ones)
Does Donk Wonk rhyme?
Wonk? What's a wonk
(without missing a beat)
It's a kind of fancy hat made from a lilly pad
Wow, Riley that is the weirdest thing you've ever said

Gets away from me in the parking lot
Here you are mom! (nowhere near me)
What? get over here!
You're over there mom. (pointing to the space in front of us)
What are you talking about?
Your picture, Mommy. On that blue square!
Oh! (Disabled parking symbol equals Mommy)

Time for bed Riley
Ok, but dad we moved...we operated my nighties into the frog bin. We operated them out of the dresser.
Ok, bed.
But I'm making drowsy!
What? Do you know what that means?
No
Drowsy means sleepy
Oh, Mommy's drowsy
True
You're just drowsy Mom!

At the Playground:
(swinging from the bar over the top of the slide like a monkey)
Are you going to slide down?
I can't! It would kill my head off!

Helping us garden Riley gets whiny.
Riley that's enough, be a helper.
I can't! I'm too tired.
Ok, then let's go in and have a nap.
No! I'll help.
Good.
(Several minutes go by, she's fussing again)
I want to go in.
Oh?
I want to go in. I suppose I could take a little nap.

Grandma, it's Tinkerbell's birthday! Let's go shopping and get her some handy downs at Target!

And from Big Brother:
Isaac are you going to fast forward? Or all we watching ALL the previews?
I was watching them...ok. Oh, I can't it says it's Fah-buyed-in.
What?
Operation Fah-buyed-in.
(Laughing)Forbidden buddy.

Putting away dishes
(holds up the baster) Mom, where does the giant eyedropper go?

Conversations With Cute: It's A New Year

I lean over and touch my forehead to Riley's forehead

She Giggles and says: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I took Riley popsicle away because she left the table
MaaaaaaaMom! Where is my pop-sick-el?!?
Back in the freezer, you know the rules.
But I WANT it! I'm NOT done....etc (several minutes of fussing in protest)
Hey Riley, wanna take a shower?
brief pause in fussing
(while running at full speed toward the bathroom)
Oh yes! I feel so guilty now. I am as excited as the world. Sorry about fussing. Yes, please a shower.
Those are EXACT words.

Riley to me at nap time:
Mommy can you read "The Monster That Ate My Socks" on your candle?
(Laughing) Kindle, honey. Sure.
Oh good! Let's push that story.(referring to the way you turn electronic pages)

Riley loves to clean so much. She was wiping my kitchen cupboards while I did dishes when suddenly it was more than she could bear.
What is this? (points to a reddish drip on the cupboard)
(Without looking up) I don't know Riley
Daddy! Daddy!
What Riley?
What IS this! What the HECK is it?!? (pointing to the same drip)
Ketchup?
No!! It's pizza sauce! Daddy, did you make this mess?
Maybe
You did. Damn it Daddy. You made this mess.

Remember while Mike is generally a slob, this was merely one drip on one cupboard. Her exasperation and cursing were a complete surprise. Don't worry Mike apologized and Riley wiped it off. Stupid white cabinets.

While playing with the magnetic dolls her Grandma gave her for Christmas I offered Riley a red coat for her girl.
She considered it briefly, held it up to her doll and then rejected it saying: No, it's too...French!
(I have have no idea why she would say that, but I found it very funny).

In the car.
The grass is wet
Yeah
The grass is wet because...the bees dropped pollen on it.
(laughing Mike explains about dew)
Oh, can you SEE pollen?
Not one piece, but when there's a lot of it.
Do bees leave footprints in the wet dew?

Conversations With Cute: Video Edition

I stole this idea from my friend at Joy and Woe. All our little pumpkins are turning 3, or just turned 3, and it seemed like a good time to check in. Most of the other moms reported a bit of trouble getting all the questions answered. My little ham plunked right down in front of my camera in her princess dress and spilled the beans.

What's your favorite color?
Ummm...Purple!

What's your favorite toy?
A purple ball and a purple cookie (clapping her hands).
(She does own a purple ball, but rarely plays with it. She also has TONS of play food especially all manner of cookie, but none are purple. This seems completely fictional.)

What's your favorite fruit?
Hmmm...Star fruit.
(She's had star fruit maybe twice at most. Apparently, it made a lasting impression.)

What's your favorite tv show?
Boots & Dora!

What's your favorite food to eat for lunch?
A cold sandwich!
(Uncrustables, she calls them cold sandwiches and they are indeed a favorite wunch)

What's your favorite clothes to wear?
A ball gown

What's your favorite game to play?
I like puzzles.

What's your favorite snack?
Rabbit cookies.
(This must be something from school or maybe grandma's house?)

What's your favorite animal?
A soft bunny with an egg attached to it.
(We don't have a toy like that. She seems to have Easter on the brain)

What's your favorite song?
Kai-Lan song from the Kai-Lan movie.
(We had just watched an episode. Great show, but her favorite song is totally "Where is the Cake" by Laurie Berkner)

What's your favorite book?
My Princess Book
(She has a few of those, I guessed she meant the newest one where you suction cup the princess onto the pages, but there's no telling which one she meant. For the recond her favorite book is probably "Skippy Jon Jones and the Big Bones" Or "Fancy Nancy Halloween".)

Who's your favorite person to play with?
My flower purse...no my Fancy Nancy purse.
(Only when I was transcribing this did I realize she thought I said "What's your favorite purse to play with?" Not only that, but that she has so many it was a tie for first place)

No, Riley who is your favorite person to play with?
Grandma Dorween.

What's your favorite food to eat for dinner?
Pizza.

What's your favorite thing to do outside?
Just, play in the tree house.

What's your favorite thing to drink?
Pink..um
Pink lemonade?
Yeah pink lemonade!

Where's your favorite place to go?
The beach.

What do you like to do before bed?
Take a nap.

What's your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Pizza. (whispered)

Pizza for breakfast?
I said it in a soft voice (still whispering)

You did say pizza in a soft voice.

What was your favorite thing you got for your birthday?
Minnie Mouse and Mickey.

What do you want to be when you're a big lady?
A soldier.

A soldier?
(WTF?!? Mulan? I hope not.)
No I wanna be a fire truck rider.
(Only slightly less random)

Oh, ok.
A train rider, actually!

A fire truck, train rider. Ok, say I'm 3!
I'm 3!

The Last Preschool Jams

Today was the last Preschool Jams for the summer. The library will now take two weeks off and then resume normal story time. Sigh. It was a good one though.

I guess we'll have to crank Laurie Berkner and bang on plastic buckets at home from now on. Totally kidding, we already do that regularly. After that we did a short stint on the adjacent playground before heading home for some PB&J (for her not me, ewwww!).

Nap time was a bit of a struggle. Riley's sleep got messed up before the weekend and she's got a bad habit of getting up multiple times a night which means she's cranky. Mommy's cranky too. I think she may have been over tired by nap. She'd been begging me to take her to dance class all weekend and now the day was here so at least I had a bargaining chip. She finally slept just in time to squeeze in an hour and change before class.

Can you tell she's pleased to finally after all. those. DAYS be on her way? Oh yeah.

Oh, I'd been meaning to share this one:
Riley: (says something silly and incoherent)
Me: What you takin' 'bout Willis!
Riley: (Highly Offended) I not Willis! I'm not talking about Willis. I'm Wiley. (points to herself)
Later
Mike: Hi, Riley. Did you have a good day?
Riley: What you talking about Willis?!?

Conversations With Cute

We read a book several times on our recent trip where little boys catch the fuzzy monster that's been eating their dirty socks. Riley's favorite part by far is that when the laundry basket comes down it makes a "Thunk!" sound. At least when I read it, it does.

When we were getting into the car at the airport at midnight to drive home Mike hit me in the head with his laptop case several times. I said "I'm gonna get wounds on my head!". Riley found this hilarious!

(Laughing) Thunk! (Laughing some more) Don't get wounds on my head, Daddy!

This continued the whole 30min trip home and then some. What a weird-o

Last week we were watching Karate Kid

Me to Riley: Say Hi-ya!
Riley: YeeHaw!

Not even close, but maybe she was in a cowboy mood? However, the following day she was riding Daddy like a horse:

Me to Riley: Say YeeHaw!
Riley: Hee Haw!

I guess she was a donkey.

The other day we were walking to my car and I asked Riley to hold her toy and her cup:

Mommy I don't have 4 hands! I'm not a squid!

She was playing with Daddy later that day.

Mike to Riley: What are you doing?
Riley to Mike: Climbing you.
Mike to Riley: Oh!
Riley to Mike: (reaching the top) I conquered you!

Riley asked me for a blank card from the pile on my desk, then she took it to her art table and started writing. After about 5min Riley annouced she was done.

Me:What did you write?
Riley: A note.
Me: Oh, good.
Riley: It says: Dear Aunt Dianana
Tanks for giving me snacks. Please come to my house and play.
Amen!
Me: (laughing) We sign notes Love Riley.
Riley: Oh. (writes some more scribbles)
(Reading) Dear Aunt Dianana,
Tanks for sancks!
Love Riwey!
AMEN!

One of her favorite stories to read at bedtime is a lesser known Dr. Seuss story called What Was I Scared Of.

Brickles on your britches and snide bushes are two elements of the story that have made it into our daily vocabulary. Mike works very hard on landscaping our yard in the Spring every year and this year we've managed to hang on to most of our flowers. Largely, Riley isn't allowed to pick any, but there's one bush of flowers she's allowed to pick from.

(She picks a flower) It's a snide flower! From the snide bush, in the dark-a-ness!

Stretching the syllables on a word is kind of the new thing. Yesterday, she wanted to play outside so she brought her shoes into my room. She told me she would do it herself. She looked around:

I will sit here on this pat-er-ren called a wheelchair.

Conversations With Cute

I came home from a drive in terrible weather and I asked a very cuddly Riley if she wanted to watch Monster House with me. We snuggled down on the couch.

Me to Mike: We didn't see any ghosts today.
Riley to Me: Did you see a robot?
Me: Nope. Do they like dark rainy days too?

Riley comes over to my desk while I have Old Navy's toddler section on the section on the screen. It's scolled down to a section of very tu-tu like skirts.

Oh, Momma! I want to borrow those!
You do?
Yes

She sits in my lap and points out clothes she likes as we scroll down on the page.

I like those. (points to shoes) I will like them on Facebook!
What?!?

Seriously, where did she hear that? And how did she know the correct context?

Riley picks up a stick in the backyard

Whatcha doing Riley?
Catching Whales!!

Riley runs through Mike's legs while he's standing in the kitchen and laughing yells:

Pop goes the easel!!

Something frustrated Riley. I think she dropped something.

Fudge! Fudge. Fudge. Fudge! Fudge. Fudge! Fudge.

Foul mouthed little thing! (:

Conversations With Cute: Wedding

We'd been reading Eloise At The Wedding (Riley's favorite of the flower girl books I got from the library). In the story Eloise meets a bride who's getting married in the ballroom of the hotel she lives in. The bride is crying because her flower girl is sick. She says:

My flower girl is sick. How can I get married?

Riley came into my room one morning and looked at me sweetly and said:
Mommy, How can I get married?
(a little taken a back) Well...You meet your prince, he puts a ring on your finger, you buy a dress and have a wedding.
Yup! (pushes her doll stroller down the hall)
A few minutes later I realized she was quoting the book and felt silly.

A different day she brought me my butterfly kneeling pad from outside and said Here Mommy! For your weddin' day. Here ya go! For your weddin' day. Who knows what she thought I'd need that for...

Riley was in Daddy's arms yesterday and I reached up and gave her a squeeze. She grabbed my hand and said: What's that?. Mike answered that it was my ring.

Who gave me that ring, Riley? (fully expecting her to say Daddy)
The prince! (she obviously remembered our conversation from the other day)
That's right. What does that ring mean?
Silence
(prompting) We're going to have...
CAKE!!!
She's not wrong.

Today she noticed flowers on her shirt and exclaimed:
Look! I have weddin' flowers on my shirt!

Conversations With Christmas Cute

Riley:(Sees an inflatable snowman out the car window) Hi! (S)nowman. (waving).
Mommy:(laughing)That's nice Riley
Riley: (as we're pulling into the driveway, still waving) Hi, hi (s)nowman. (her voice lowers slightly) Hi, Riley!
Mommy: (laughing harder)
Riley: Did you hear the (s)nowman say hi?
Mommy: Yes, what a friendly snowman.

Riley was being very two the other day. Finally I made her look at me and asked her to be a good listener.
Mommy: Riley, be a good girl. You know what? Santa only brings toys to the good girls who listen to their mommies. You want Santa to bring you toys, don't you?
Riley: Gonna be good, yeah. Santa bring toys, yeah.
Sometime later
Mommy: Riley that's not nice! Mommy doesn't like that. Santa doesn't like that. What does Santa like?
Riley: Reindeer!
Although she missed my point she wasn't wrong.

Conversing With Cute

Riley: Want a coooookie!
Mommy: Please?
Riley: Please, have a cookie.
Mommy: Here ya go.
Riley: Ah, (T)hank you!

She sits down and eats it. The room is silent for a minute. Then she springs to her feet.
Riley: Nother cookie, pleeeease.
Mommy: I don't know how old are you?
Riley: (Without skipping a beat) Twelve.
Mommy: (trying to stop laughing long enough to disagree) No you're not. How old are you, Riley?
Riley: (long pause) Two
Mommy: That's right. You're two so you can have two cookies. (I give her the cookie)
Daddy: (laughing) I bet you wish you were twelve now!

Several days later.

Mommy: What a good helper, Thank You.
Riley: You're Welcome!
Mommy: Should we have a cookie now?
Riley: Yes. I'm two, two cookies!

This morning Riley was laying in my bed talking to me and Mike was still dozing. She kept asking me to sing Tiny Tim faster and faster. She thought it was very funny. Eventually, Mike stirred and Riley gave him some hugs.

Riley: Good Mornin'!
Daddy: Hi, Riley
Riley: (pointing to the flowers I got in the hospital)they're not (s)cary. Want to (s)mell them!
Daddy: They don't really have a smell
Riley: It's ok, they're not (s)cary. (s)mell them!
Daddy: Ok (they "smell them)
(Riley stands up to look out the window and notices some green paint spots on the the white tile window sill)
Riley: Uh-oh! Daddy (s)pilled some paint.
Daddy: Where?
Riley: On dare! (points to the window)
Daddy: Oh
Riley: It's white not green. Don't paint there.
Daddy: Ok
Riley: Green for walls. You're supposed to be sorry.
Daddy: (laughing) I'm sorry, Riley.