More MM-isms

Now that MM is nearly three years old, it is amazing what kinds of observations she makes. Some of them are funny when I first hear them; while others are only funny when I look back at them.

1. On the way to school the other day, she saw a house that still had red ribbons on the porch bannister. She said, "Look mommy, that house has hair ties!"

2. MM is working on appropriate responses to coughing and sneezing. She has also learned that if she coughs I offer water, and if she sneezes, I give her a tissue. So, when it is bedtime, she will fake cough so that she can have a drink. She will then fake sneeze and say, " I knee-ezed, I need a tissue." She will also use the fake sneeze to get my attention away from BJ.

3. I had cameo earrings in my ears the other day. When I was putting her into her carseat she observed, "Mommy you have pictures in your ears!"

4. Her father broke the baby swing yesterday manually swinging it too hard. I made the comment that Daddy broke the swing to MM and she responded, "Daddy's in trouble, you need to spank him and put him in time out."

5. I am after my husband about his language all the time, and I told him he had a potty mouth the other day. We were in the doctor's office on Wednesday and Andy let out with a curse word. MM said, "Daddy you need to go to the potty. You have potty mouth!"

6. Again with the cursing. Andy apparently told MM to "get her ass up the stairs" at some point because MM told me to "get you up the stairs you ass" the other night.

7. This morning, MM ran down the stairs to watch her show but then realized that she needed to go potty. However, she stood beside the potty, peed in her pull-up, took it off and sat on the potty. She then informed me that she need to have "lemon-ems" (M&Ms) because she was on the potty.

8. And my favorite right now is her obsession with the paint stirring stick she likes to play with. Andy wrote her name on it so it was hers. She can not say the word stick though. She walks around waving it in the air and says that it is her d**k, "see there's my name!"

So, when she really gets potty mouth as a teenager, I will know where the foundations lay. I wonder how long it will take to undo her special language development when she goes back to full time daycare in April?