Lily with Abby, the only character she would approach at Sesame Place. Weird, since she is really into Elmo...but I guess she saw him at Elmo's World Live and didn't feel the need to pose with him.
Lily on the carosel (sp?) She's the little girl in green on the blue horse. I'm the cool mom with the white earmuff thingy on. Oh, yea...sexy beast.
The initial approach to Abby. Lord help me, if Lily isn't cute. Which at this point is a defensive mechanism...because she needs to balance out the other behavior that comes with being 2. One of my favorite parts of 2 years old (and there aren't many), is the exploding language. Every day, Lily will say something and I'll do a double take. Which I understand is not a singular phenomenon...indeed almost every human child goes through this... So I don't expect you to be thrilled beyond belief by these stories, but I am compelled to record them for my own future amusement, thank you very much ;)
If you ask Lily what her name is, you get one of two answers. Either she says, "Yiddy" (Lily) or she points at herself and says, "ME!"
She is very into emotions lately...possibly because I've been working with her on expressing her emotions verbally instead of through tantrums. We've been practicing our emotive faces, etc. This has resulted in Lily being obsessed with emotions everywhere we go. "Me am soooo hungee." Or when watching Charlotte's Web, "Cider so sad, so sad (big pout on face)", etc etc.
The advent calendar is almost finished (praise heaven above), and Lily's was decorated with all the Mickey Mouse characters, and each piece of chocolate had a different face embossed on it. Andrew would wait for Lily to wake up each morning to open up their chocolates. So now we get to hear Lily say, "Chalk-it! Chalk-it wid Mickey onit!" Or Dondud or Doodoh or Minnie or Daisy or her personal favorite...Goo-fey!
Sometimes she just comes up with it. This morning she was eating her oatmeal and she very dramatically said, "mmmmmmmm, cicisious" I finally figured out she was saying 'delicious'. She was tickled pink when I finally figured it out. I wasn't expecting that big of a word to come out of her mouth!
Lily loves to take her babies for a walk in her stroller (inside this time of year). But she insists that someone walk with her. I have no idea why. Occassionally we humor her, as was the case last night after Michael was put to bed. She is the worst stroller steerer ever...and every time she would whack the stroller into another obstacle, she would say, "Oops. Sorry, guys."
Lily was enthusiastically eating her waffle Sunday morning. "Yook, Mommy. Yook, Daddy. Affles yummy!" Suddenly she was finished and started saying, "Get it away" while pushing the plate away. Jeff got a washcloth to de-syrup her, and unlike me, he is a kind man and uses warm water on the washcloth (ice cold from me...unless the tap is already warm for some reason). As he begins to wipe her off, Lily is screaming, "Too hot! Ouch! Too hot, Daddy!". After he finished torturing the child with the soothing warm washcloth, he asked if she would like to get down. "No, Daddy, No. Stay up." Jeff begins to walk away and Lily screams at him, "Get DOWN. GET DOWN NOW. NO THANKS STAY UP." Jeff managed to get her out of her chair without shaking her...which earns him the Daddy of the year award.
And finally, this isn't related to her speech, but just a little FYI if you come to visit. You can get an immediate idea of how you rank with Lily based on the character she assigns you to play when using her dollhouse. If you come to visit, you WILL "play house" at some point. Lily plays approximately 25 times a day, and anyone and everyone is asked to play with her. There are 3 characters in her dollhouse; a daddy doll, a mommy doll, and a baby doll. Also a Little People jester from some McDonald's Happy Meal long ago that she has dubbed "AU" (Andrew). But he doesn't count. When you agree to "play house", Lily will assign you one of the dolls. This is the only doll that you will be permitted to touch...so don't even try any funny business. If she offers you the baby doll, you are #1 on her list. So far, I think I am the only one who has EVER been offered the baby to play with...and that doesn't even happen for me very often. If you are offered the mommy doll, you are fairly well thought of by Lily. This is her doll of choice for Jeff...the second he comes home from work she is harassing him, "Daddy? Play house? You be mommy?" If you are offered the daddy doll, you are a bit low on her list. In fact, she is probably only letting you play begrudgingly. The daddy doll is her doll of choice for Andrew. If Andrew is not playing with us, then the daddy doll often gets sent to work and isn't seen again for the duration of play.
So now you know! The best is when she plays with the dollhouse by herself. It is hilarious to listen to her view of our world as portrayed by her dolls. One night, Jeff and I were watching her and she didn't realize it. The baby asked for playdoh, the mommy got stuff ready in the kitchen and then put baby to bed. Then the mommy started tackling the baby and jumping on its head. ??? I'm pretty sure THAT has never happened. Time-outs? Oh yes. Jumping on the kids? Not yet. Maybe next week.
If you ask Lily what her name is, you get one of two answers. Either she says, "Yiddy" (Lily) or she points at herself and says, "ME!"
She is very into emotions lately...possibly because I've been working with her on expressing her emotions verbally instead of through tantrums. We've been practicing our emotive faces, etc. This has resulted in Lily being obsessed with emotions everywhere we go. "Me am soooo hungee." Or when watching Charlotte's Web, "Cider so sad, so sad (big pout on face)", etc etc.
The advent calendar is almost finished (praise heaven above), and Lily's was decorated with all the Mickey Mouse characters, and each piece of chocolate had a different face embossed on it. Andrew would wait for Lily to wake up each morning to open up their chocolates. So now we get to hear Lily say, "Chalk-it! Chalk-it wid Mickey onit!" Or Dondud or Doodoh or Minnie or Daisy or her personal favorite...Goo-fey!
Sometimes she just comes up with it. This morning she was eating her oatmeal and she very dramatically said, "mmmmmmmm, cicisious" I finally figured out she was saying 'delicious'. She was tickled pink when I finally figured it out. I wasn't expecting that big of a word to come out of her mouth!
Lily loves to take her babies for a walk in her stroller (inside this time of year). But she insists that someone walk with her. I have no idea why. Occassionally we humor her, as was the case last night after Michael was put to bed. She is the worst stroller steerer ever...and every time she would whack the stroller into another obstacle, she would say, "Oops. Sorry, guys."
Lily was enthusiastically eating her waffle Sunday morning. "Yook, Mommy. Yook, Daddy. Affles yummy!" Suddenly she was finished and started saying, "Get it away" while pushing the plate away. Jeff got a washcloth to de-syrup her, and unlike me, he is a kind man and uses warm water on the washcloth (ice cold from me...unless the tap is already warm for some reason). As he begins to wipe her off, Lily is screaming, "Too hot! Ouch! Too hot, Daddy!". After he finished torturing the child with the soothing warm washcloth, he asked if she would like to get down. "No, Daddy, No. Stay up." Jeff begins to walk away and Lily screams at him, "Get DOWN. GET DOWN NOW. NO THANKS STAY UP." Jeff managed to get her out of her chair without shaking her...which earns him the Daddy of the year award.
And finally, this isn't related to her speech, but just a little FYI if you come to visit. You can get an immediate idea of how you rank with Lily based on the character she assigns you to play when using her dollhouse. If you come to visit, you WILL "play house" at some point. Lily plays approximately 25 times a day, and anyone and everyone is asked to play with her. There are 3 characters in her dollhouse; a daddy doll, a mommy doll, and a baby doll. Also a Little People jester from some McDonald's Happy Meal long ago that she has dubbed "AU" (Andrew). But he doesn't count. When you agree to "play house", Lily will assign you one of the dolls. This is the only doll that you will be permitted to touch...so don't even try any funny business. If she offers you the baby doll, you are #1 on her list. So far, I think I am the only one who has EVER been offered the baby to play with...and that doesn't even happen for me very often. If you are offered the mommy doll, you are fairly well thought of by Lily. This is her doll of choice for Jeff...the second he comes home from work she is harassing him, "Daddy? Play house? You be mommy?" If you are offered the daddy doll, you are a bit low on her list. In fact, she is probably only letting you play begrudgingly. The daddy doll is her doll of choice for Andrew. If Andrew is not playing with us, then the daddy doll often gets sent to work and isn't seen again for the duration of play.
So now you know! The best is when she plays with the dollhouse by herself. It is hilarious to listen to her view of our world as portrayed by her dolls. One night, Jeff and I were watching her and she didn't realize it. The baby asked for playdoh, the mommy got stuff ready in the kitchen and then put baby to bed. Then the mommy started tackling the baby and jumping on its head. ??? I'm pretty sure THAT has never happened. Time-outs? Oh yes. Jumping on the kids? Not yet. Maybe next week.
3 comments:
I always get a kick hearing/reading about other kids' funny sayings or behaviors. It is never a bore to read about your family.
I love that the imaginative phase is starting up! I can barely keep up with Reina's, or I underestimate her desire to play pretend and am now trying to catch up with her. Wonder if Lily would let her be "baby"?
AWW! I want to play house with Lily!!!
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