Charley Speaks

More of the funny conversations we have had lately. 

Randomly she'll say: 

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

In the car one day:

Me: Want to go to the store and pick up something new for you?

Charley: Yes! What is it?!

Me: A new bed for you to sleep on at the beach!

Charley: NO! Don't want a bed. I want a bike.

After picking her up from my sister's, she sometimes will call me by my sister's name:

Charley: But why, Christy?

Me: I'm not Christy

Charley: No, you're monkey.

While playing outside a couple of days ago:

[Charley takes her chair off of the porch, brings it down into the yard, dramatically plops down in it and sighs.]

Charley: Ahhh. It's such a nice day. I don't want to go to work.

And some of my favorite mispronunciations that I don't want to forget when she inevitably corrects them:

Wawa - water; see also wawa can (watering can), wawamelon (watermelon)

Gaga - Gamma (my mom is Gamma to all the other grandkids, but we're really hoping Gaga sticks with Charley) 

 Shoshcloth - washcloth

 Plulo - Pluto

Cancakes - pancakes

But her very most favorite thing to say all day is MAMA, which she says about 8734567345646 times a day, approximately. In succession. Repeatedly. Over & over. But, I kind of love it. ;)

 

Charley Speaks

Some of my absolute favorite posts from fellow bloggers (like them and her) are basically bulleted lists of what funny things their toddler has said lately. My girl has a lot to say these days so I'm going to start keeping track of them too.

• When preparing for Charley's birthday party, I drew Mr. Noodle on foam board for part of the decor. The next morning after my art project I showed Mr. Noodle to Charley and enthusiastically asked her who it was to which she replied just as enthusiastically "A MAN!"

• When we got home one evening I was reading the mail prior to my just-got-home-need-to-pee routine. After a couple of minutes I remembered that I needed to go pee and said out loud "gotta pee, gotta pee!" as I started to go to the bathroom. Charley came up behind me, patted my butt and said "Yep. Mama's got pee pees." Just like I do to her when she has a full pee diaper.
• From my sister one day: "Baby Jesus has pee pees. I change him."

• "Tinkle, tinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Apple juice the stars so bright..."

• while reading a pop-up book that said: 'Foxes are very clever and like to eat chickens', Charley told me to "wait!" while she got up and ran to her play kitchen where she retrieved a chicken leg, ran back to the book and fed it to the fox. She then said "ooh, too spicy" and ran back to her kitchen to obtain some water to wash it down. Hate to break it to her that the chicken that foxes eat aren't prepared in quite the same way as the chicken we eat. 

And, a quick little video of our car chats. She talks non-stop in the car so I held up my phone to video her one day and somehow even managed to not cut off her head in the process.

It took me three months to put this list together and this child makes me laugh daily but I never can remember what she said when I get a second to sit down and write. Why is this?! Will someone follow behind us at all times and transcribe it all? I am going to be so sad when toddler speak is over!

Jelly Bean

The most hilarious thing just happened in my house. I just hope I can convey it through words and the interwebs to be as funny as it was in person.

So, since I am still nursing Charley I take 2 prenatal vitamins every day. One is just a regular prenatal, and the other is a DHA supplement which is basically a plant based fish oil, I think. I actually have no idea if that is what it is or not. I was just told to take them by a doctor and I do as I'm told. Anyways, I prefer to take them in the mornings with breakfast, and I normally eat my breakfast once I'm at work. Therefore, I typically take the two vitamins and stick them in my pocket for later.

About 50% of the time, I forget to ever take them and I end up finding them in the bottom of my purse or in my pockets before I do laundry. Today though, someone else found them, and they weren't in my purse nor were they in the washing machine.

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This afternoon I had big plans to work in the yard a bit right when I got home from work. I picked up Charley, rushed home and as soon as she was fed, changed & happy I proceeded to change out of my work clothes. I took the pants I was wearing off, hung them up on a hanger and then put on my work-in-the-yard clothes and came back downstairs.

(I then attempted to work in the yard, except that only lasted 15 minutes before Charley was done playing out there. Oy. So we came back in.)

Meanwhile, John came home from work. His plan for the afternoon was to come home, change out of his work clothes and into some work clothes, and go over to the land where our new house is going to be built and clear some more trees and such. He went on upstairs to our shared closet to change clothes.

Not 5 minutes later, I hear AHHH and expletives coming from the upstairs. I yell to him and ask what is wrong, and I get no response. I still hear movement up there so I ignore his silence. I assumed he found a giant spider or something of that nature and has taken care of it.

Finally, John came back down and told me what happened. He was changing his clothes in the closet, when, what to his wondering eyes should appear, but a long, lost JELLY BEAN!


It was his lucky day! He remembered eating jelly beans about a week ago, and just thought one had fallen into his pocket, and then later fallen out of his pocket onto the closet floor. Makes perfect logical sense...

::crickets::

 So, anyways, as anyone with any sense would do, he picked up the jelly bean off of the floor and took a bite out of it.

Only, it wasn't a jelly bean at all. When I hung my pants up that I wore to work today, my vitamins must have fallen out onto the floor. Cue expletives and yelling. And him trying to rinse his mouth out with water.

The good news is that DHA supplements are good for brain and eye development, and clearly both John's brain and eyes could use a little help.
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Happy Friday!

Just a quick little blog today to 1) bump the disaster of a blog post further down. I am slightly embarrassed that the lady I graciously stole the idea from used to get 600+ comments when she posted it, and I got 10. One of which, I'll admit, was my own. And no, I won't tell you which one. I actually had a few more I wanted to put in there, but needed some others to post to disguise which were mine and you guys failed me! No worries, I just will wallow in my sorrows that I'm not cool. It's fine. It's happened all my life. (How's that for a guilt trip!?)

and 2) to share this loveliness with you that I saw on Pinterest. I would give you the link to it, but my work blocked the page so you'll have to search for it yourself.

Try searching: "how not to get syrup in your hair when you eat waffles at the age of 29, Lacey!"

 Because it happens every time and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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