Meet Susie

I'm not sure if she will be permanent, but we welcomed another addition to the family last night.

Molly: Did you know I have a big sister?

Me: Really? What's her name?

Molly: Her name is Susie.

Me: Oh, what does she look like?

Molly: She looks like my teacher.

Me How old is she?

Molly: She and my brother Michael are both 3 years old. (apparently I was carrying triplets)

Me: What happens when you turn 4?

Molly: They will be young! When I'm four, they will be young because they will be 3 and I will be 4.

I love how she is both so wrong, and amazingly insightful here.

Toddlers in their own words

Tonight, the girls are going to speak for themselves. Please enjoy our dinner conversation :-)

Lucy shakes her head and says cookie:

Molly tells a story:

Molly reads a Valentine from Michael

Michael is still Molly's constant companion. We just had the following exchange:

Molly: I just found a Valentine's day card!

Me: Really?

Molly: Yep it's from my brother Michael

Me: What does it say?

Molly: Dear Molly and Jesus,

Happy birthday to you. Jesus's birthday is almost to the school!

Love Michael

The actual "letter" was much longer. She read for about 5 minutes. When I asked her to repeat it, the above is what she told me.

Additional Analogies

I've been trying harder analogies with Molly. She doesn't always quite get them, but her guesses are great :-)

Me: Eye is to see as ear is to...?

Molly: Hear!

Me: Flower is grass as cloud is to...?

Molly: Rain?

Me: noo...

Molly: Sky!

Me: Top is to shirt as bottom is to...?

Molly: PANTIES!

I was going for pants, but that'll work.

Me: Leaf is to tree as petal is to...?

Molly: Bicycle!

That last one is my favorite. Ever.

She blinded me with... analogies!

I consider running errands to be a good time to engage my captive audience in stimulating conversation. Molly Toddler and I talk about phonics, rhyming, science, and whatever else I can think of.

Tuesday morning, Molly and I were talking about analogies. First, I familiarized her with the wording of an analogy:

Me: We put a glove on a hand, but what do we put a shoe on?

Molly: A foot!

Me: Great! So Glove is to hand as shoe is to...?

Molly: Foot!

After a couple more examples like this, she began rattling off answers like an AP English student. (well, maybe not quite. But she's 3 ;-)

Me: Sky is to blue as grass is to...?

Molly: Green!!!

Me: Boat is to water as airplane is to...?"

Molly: Sky!!!

Me: Molly, "Ah" is to A as, "Ffff" is to...?

Molly: "F"!!!

Me: "A" is to "B" as"1" is to...?

Molly: "2"!!!

This whole thing kind of blew my mind. In a good way :-)

She quickly got bored of this, and wanted to "tell (me) some questions".

Molly: Mommy, where do we put our carseat? Do we put it in the grass?

Me: no...

Molly: Do we put it in the water?

Me: no...

Molly: Do we put it in the car?

Me: Yes!

Molly: Good job Mommy! Now will you tell me a bedtime story???

I love that girl :-)

Edit:

Here are some more!

It just creeps me out...

I really don't like the commercials in between shows on Nick Jr. We mostly stick to PBS and videos, especially since Molly is starting to clue in to advertising.

My least favorite product right now is this:

Mostly because it reminds me entirely too much of this:

::shiver::

Tuesday & Wednesday Highlights 3/3/11

Molly: Mommy, my dress is so "hasser"

Me: What?

Molly: Hasser! Like daddy is hasser.

Me: Do you mean handsome?

Molly: Yes! My dress is sooooo handsome!

Me: I'm making you some yummy eggs for breakfast!

Molly: EEEEW! I don't like eggs!

Me: Well, how about some green eggs?

Molly: YES! I love green eggs! Blue paint (food coloring) plus yellow eggs make GREEN EGGS AND HAM!

Molly: Mommy, I want some blue play-doh. Not the new stuff. It's gross. Just the "re-guh-ler" kind.

Me: You mean the re-gu-lar kind?

Molly: Yes, "re-gu-lu-ler"

(I got her the kind she wanted)

Molly: Yeah! THAT'S what I'm talking about!

I burped, and Molly gave me a shocked and affronted look.

Molly: Excuse you Mommy!

Me: Oh, yes. Excuse me!

Molly: That's what we need to say when we burp mommy. And also when we toot.

Molly is singing a mash-up of "Doe a Deer" and "The Ants go Marching". It's epic :-p

Molly: I dreamed about swimming!

Me: That's nice!

Molly: Yep. When you were a little girl, you used to sleep in my little polka dot bed.

Me: Really?

Molly: Yep, and, you dreamed about swimming too!

Me: Oh really?

Molly: Yep! That's so funny. The funniest of all!

The "winner" of the day:

I was changing Lucy's diaper, and she was attempting a crocodile death roll. I restrained her and...

Me: Look at me Lucy. You need to stop fussing and stay still. I am the mommy, and I will always win.

Molly: Um... I think Lucy is winning that diaper.