We have literacy!

Emma just wrote her name for the first time. (and by that I mean you could look at it later and clearly see an E, an M, another M and an A  - she's been trying to do it for months, but it wasn't legible.)

I'm pretty excited and awed by the brain development that has to take place for a child to place abstract symbols on a page that have a meaning beyond what she designates to them...

The four raisins

On the days when Emma has cereal for breakfast, she's taken to picking out the raisins and saying - "There's one for Mumma, one for Mummy, one for baby and one for me, big sister."

Why does she do this, you are asking, as you hold your breath, hardly daring to believe the answer.

Because, dear readers (all two or three of you, our loyal and faithful followers)...

we are having another baby!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We will take our first baby steps as the parents of our newest little one around November 7.

Yayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overheard conversation

Caroline and Emma in the kitchen using up old bananas by making banana bread.

Caroline: No, kiddo. We're not putting glue in the cake. Put it down, please.
Emma: But why?
Caroline: Um...Well... because glue doesn't go in cake. We don't eat glue. We use it to stick things.
Emma: (sounding disappointed) Oh. Ok.


(a few minutes later)
Emma: I can do it! I can help.
Caroline: Thanks, kiddo...No silly, we're not putting glue in the cake!
Emma: Oh.

Quote of the day

"I like nice dinosaurs. I like a nice T-Rex."

Seeing the world

If she had just said "Mumma, I want to go to the park," I might have been been able to resist. But no, she said, "Mumma. Can we go out? I want to see the world." What's a Mumma to do?

Science

Emma: Why is water slippery?
Mumma: (provides long involved answer about thin films of water, lubrication, friction blah blah blah)
Emma: But why?

(I should have just said "Because it is.")

Baby bear is cleaning up

Sitting on the couch working while my daughter sweeps and tidies up. I should feel guilty, shouldn't I? But I'm more interested in figuring out how to keep this dynamic as she gets older. She is choosing to sweep, believe it or not, but sadly, I suspect it is a phase.

Quote of the day: "Mumma bear! You give the best kisses!"