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while snuggling at bedtime:

me:  "i love you, tae."
tae:  "i care about you, mommy.  i care about your eyes.  i care about your glasses.  i care about your ears.  i care your skin.  i care the bones in your skin.  i care everything on your whole body."

sniff.  i care about everything on your whole body too tae.

toddler logic

recently, i've been telling tae about behavior that is inappropriate.  among other things, this includes hitting and going under my skirt.

tae:  hitting is inappropriate.
me:  yes, hitting people is inappropriate.
tae:  can you hit car? (the little tykes car)
me:  yes, you can hit the car, but gently.
tae:  [hitting the car] it's not crying!
me:  why isn't it crying?
tae:  because it has no mouth!

conversations i had today

i've had the privilege of hanging out tae the past two days, just us, and will have the same privilege through sunday.  so, i've had lots of opportunities to have some great conversations with her:

conversation one:

tae:  uncle!
me:  uncle?      
tae:  uncle dan!
me:  guess what?  we're going to see uncle dan this weekend!
tae:  because???
me:  because uncle dan is getting married!
tae:  and be happy!
me:  yes, and he'll be happy.

conversation two:

tae:  flying to see dragons!
me:  what dragons?
tae:  not scary dragons.  go to dragon store.
me:  where's the dragon store?
tae:  come along!  (pulls me into the bedroom)
        look!  so many dragons. 
me:  are the dragons scary?
tae:  no.  they happy!!  pick some!
         dragons are sleeping.  they awake!  looking for some food.
me:  what do dragons eat?
tae:  some carrots, potatoes, smoothies, and milk.  and spaghetti!
        find some!  spaghetti!  spaghetti!!

conversation 3

me:  hey tae, remember sarah?  she had a baby in her belly.
tae:  baby in her belly!
me:  guess what?  the baby's not in her belly any more and kevon and sarah are holding it!
tae: (simulates something exploding out of her belly by pulling out her shirt with great gusto)
       POP!  out came a baby!

tae then proceeds to put a spoon down her shirt, jumps up and down, and when the spoon falls out of the bottom of her shirt, she exclaims, "look!  a baby!"

what she told me

"tae's a big kid now go to school by self.  mommy's a big kid, already went to school."

"MOMMY!  it's 7-0-0.  time to get up.  hooray!"

"tae and mommy on pretend airplane.  go up up to pretend dallas.  see pretend people."

"tae and mommy on turtle airplane.  go to turtle dallas.  see turtle people."

<cough-cough> "let me clear my throat."  (sometimes parenting is just my way of entertaining myself.)

tidbits

• this evening, tae crawled under a green pillow and told me that she was a turtle, and that the pillow was her shell.
• this morning, tae sat down on her potty, inspected herself, and exclaimed, "not working!"
• this weekend, i told tae that a picnic meant eating on a blanket.  she proceded to bring play food over to the blanket we were sitting on, and moved all of the play food from the plates to... on the blanket.

i've been meaning to post about our mother's day adventures... soon.  flime ties.

where does she get this stuff from?

scene: tae is living dangerously, hanging over the edge of the bed.  i tell her to be careful, because i don't want her to fall.

tae: don't break tae!
momma: yes, we don't want to break tae.
tae: don't break tae!  no playing, no jumping, no seeing.  no NOTHING!

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scene: we are playing and being silly, and i am pretending to eat her belly.

tae: tae's belly - yucky!
momma: tae's belly is yucky? 
tae:  eat mom-mom.
momma: mommy's belly tastes yucky!
tae: NO.  YUMMY!!

clips and phrases

lately, tae has just been a little chatterbox... and she continually cracks her self up.

• somehow, my name has morphed.  last night, in the middle of the night, i heard from her room, getting louder and louder, "mom-mom!!  mom-mom!!!  MOM-MOM!!!" 
• she's doing that thing where she puts double -s on things - that are catses and dogses and bookses and and and...
• yesterday, she was counting... "eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen, eleven-teen!"
• when i told her that after nineteen came twenty, and then twenty one, she looked at me and said, "twenty-house!"  then she started laughing like crazy.
• then she exclaimed as clear as day, and with a big smile, "TWENTY-BUTT!!"  followed by maniacal laughter.

1, 6, 7, 8!

so i've gone and totally confused tae.  usually when she counts, she starts of with 1 and then skips to 6, 7, 8.  we'll be counting something, and she'll say proudly, "1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!!"  she can get up to 13 pretty consistently, but clearly, she's still a little confused.

and then it dawned on me.  when we sing together, i often start us off with a little count, which always happens to start with "5, 6, 7, 8!"

recently overheard

i kind of wish i was still studying how kids learn language.  every day, i hear something new and different and funny come out of tae's mouth.  i'm sure people who are actually parents and see all this happening make more inspired researchers on the subject.

• tae is in to big and little.  the other day she was reaching way up high, and said "big high!"  then, she reached down low and said "little high!"
• this morning, tae asked me to "little sing."  this meant sing in a high pitched voice.
• in the bath, we play with little foam letters.  last night i asked her to pick out which letter was for M-M-Mommy.  she picked out the M.  i asked her what letter it was, and she said, "double blue!"
• why in the world does she still call a bagel a "guh-gum?"
• often, when she saying bye, she throws out a series of one liners: "bye! later! agilator!"