so they say....

at the dinner table....
elena: uh oh i have to toot.
daddy: ok, well go ahead. just use your manners after.
[...silence and staring...]
daddy: did you toot?
elena: well yea, but it was just steam that came out.


daddy: how was your day, elena?
elena: eh, decent.


adelyn: shut the door.
[i shut the door.]
adelyn: noooo, not like that.
me: how? you want it just cracked?
adelyn: noooo, DON'T crack it. just shut the door.


j and i lay with the girls for a bit when they go down for bed. we all call out to each other, "i love you ________!" filling it in with each of us. it was adelyn's turn....
adelyn: i love you mommy. i love you daddy. i love you lanie. i love you ME!


playing....
elena: i'm going to go to outer space so i can get a baby in my belly.


going into the kitchen....
elena: bye, like, whatever your name is...like, jason....like, molly. i'm outta here.


in church....
me: (whispering) STOP picking your nose.
adelyn: (still diggin' and whispering) i can't stop...
me: (whispering) we are almost done and we will get a kleenex as soon as we leave. stop picking your nose.
adelyn: (loudly) i CAN'T WAIT to pick to my nose!!


sitting at the table making their grocery lists....chatting to each other....
elena: my girls used to eat princess vitamins, but now they want jesus, mary and joseph vitamins. (pretending to write it on her list)
adelyn: oh yea, i know them! them is soooo nice!


while sound asleep....
adelyn: "i'm done going pee pee, mommy."
SOUND asleep.


coloring together at the table....
adelyn: (holding up her picture) "see my plower, lane."
elena: "yes. i see your flower. it looks like it's dying."
adelyn: (long pause for pondering) "no. it's not dying, lane. it's hanging on."


to j and i before bed....
elena: "i love you to jesus to santa claus to the rainbow to the moon to the sun and to the stars....the hot ones and the cold ones."


"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer." ~Author Unknown

talking toddlers.....i think

sometimes i think snippets of conversations - ok, sometimes WHOLE conversations - with my toddlers could be the same words i spoke with my psych patients at the psych ward when i worked there....

here are snippets from one of my toddlers or to one of my toddlers.... ahh, brings me back to the 3rd floor, white padded walls, locked unit.

- "wave bye bye to the rainbow."

- "if you're going to poop, you should put your knees together."

- "because we don't poop on picture frames!"

- "oh - you are so cool with your new freckle!"

- "watch out for the con-scratching worker!"

- "is that your turd on the floor?"

- "everyone toots out of their butt."

- "please stop licking my face."

- "do you have two ears so you can hear twice?"

- "no!!! DON'T excuse my butt!! that's my job."

- "the bathroom smells so clean i could just eat the whole thing."

- (staring at a candycorn) "oh my god....it's so colorful!"

- "did you just lick off your own saliva?"

- "you wipe in front first."

- "if i am this much and then that more, i'll be SO much!"

- "alright! stop putting carrots on me!"

- "when a fridge ate a lizard, it didn't really have a mouth."

- "ok, it can be your toosh." (trying to give her toosh away)

- "did you take your hair off your head?"

- "hold on, i need to get my piano out of the bathroom."

- "you can have a kiss, but stop trying to lick the chapstick off of my lips."

- "putting on my shoes is going to take me months!"

- "how come our butt's not in front? is it because it looks better in back?"


"Psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist." ~Karen Horney