Dec. 11, 2007 - "Are we going on the Alligator?"
Last Tuesday I decided I needed to pack up the kiddos and head to the mall for Baby Andrew to get his 3-month pictures done. I just can't get behind I haven't gotten the other kids their pictures done professionally since last Christmas. So I can't pass this time up it's important to me to get them done every 3 months at least this 1st year of his life. So walking the baby into the store in his stroller/car seat contraption and making the other 2 hold hands and walk across the parking lot while I try not to have a cardiac arrest for fear a car might come and hit one of them. They are the bolting type. Ry more clingy than PR but since tend to scream if a car gets to close I think they have gotten the picture that they might get hurt if a car comes because lately they have been doing a great job sticking REAL close while in parking lots.
So anyway the meaning of this whole entry.....We walk into the sears store and cut through the tool department to use the rest room. Dear sweet little over active PR asks "Mama are we going to use the alligator?" I think about what he has said then look up and WHAM! It hits me. Are we going to use the "ELEVATOR?” I had to chuckle to myself and write it down before I forget that cute little boy asking if we are going to use the alligator. I replied “Not today but maybe another day, we will use the alligator.”
I’m not sure why it’s so funny when kids say things differently than how you should say them but I seem to remember a few things PR used to say when learning new words.
- Bop-Pop (we’re Midwesterners and call soda POP)
- blanket- BoBo ? not real sure how that one came about
- Milp-milk
- Woodrow- Andrew (this is a newer one that he used this summer when we were throwing around names, we were thinking about naming the baby. We had mentioned Andrew and he thought and thought real hard so hard you could almost see the wheels turning in his head and it came out Woodrow and I about died laughing!) After that I think we had to name the baby Andrew.
Little Miss Ry hasn’t done to bad with her speech and miss pronouncing her words, but the one thing she does do that is so cute is that when she can’t say a certain word she makes an mmmmmm sound like she’s saying a real word. (if you can follow that) Like she’ll say Mama mmmmm, (for bear) Daddy mmmm, (for daddy bear) and she does it with out skipping a beat. She say it so naturally it’s cute to listen to see where she uses the mmmm. Tonight she made my day week and probably my whole year. We were sitting in the living room watching some Christmas movie and I let her stay up a little later than normal since she fell asleep when we went to look at Christmas lights. She looked at me ever so seriously, with her golden locks falling over her shoulders, her blue eyes glittering in the light from our Christmas tree and says” you’re my favorite Mama”. Aaaaawwwww melt my heart. What a little princess. I didn’t and couldn’t stop to tell her I better be her favorite Mama since I am her ONLY Mama. It was a precious moment and I think she was being very sincere. She has been my shadow a lot lately. Usually she’s a total Daddy’s girl. But the past few weeks I’d have to say she a Mama’s girl for sure.
