Quote of the day

 “No, Mumma! Don’t wipe my face with the duck’s duvet.” 

(Stupid me thought it was a washcloth.)

The logic of three-year-olds

Mumma: Ow!
Emma: You stepped on my baby! (doll)
Mumma: Sorry, baby. .
Emma: Mumma, toys don't talk.

Damned if you do...

The problem with having a kid who is old enough to actually do stuff is that she's also old enough to say, "No, I don't want to."

Happy Birthday Mumma!

Emma and I had great fun tonight preparing for Mumma's birthday tomorrow. Thought I'd share this funny video that we made...I wonder if she will be this energetic in her teens!?!

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.