someone got a new playhouse this weekend and she just adores it. keith started tackling the build on sunday and finished monday night with the help of my dad. it is SO adorbs. it has such amazing details, it is great quality and has stuff she really appreciates like a working doorbell (that is sure to be out of batteries soon because she just loves to press that little button, it also has a sink (“my hands so dirty!”) and two stove burners. plus, it has tons of room for her and i can even stand up inside it!
sunday night i told keith “you just wait, the first thing she will do is go to her playroom and schlep all of her stuff outside to her house” and of course it was 100% true. 2 seconds after checking it out she was taking trips back and forth with armfuls of goodies. she took tons of her kitchen food out there and said”i makin dinner.”
even though she has a stove and fridge in her playroom, her own little house really sealed the deal. she was SO excited. ” MAMA, i just love my playhouse!”
we woke up to snow this morning, so it was cordelia and Keith day. They had a blast. It is nice for Keith to get to hang out with c without me around. When I’m near c wants nothing to do with anyone else. Boo.
Anyway, I just asked Keith how their day was. He replied “awesome!! We had an awesome day. She told me I’m her best friend! Actually now that i think about it, she also told two millk jugs they were her best friends too. So yeah. hahahah”
Story is, c was sitting on the counter in the kitchen and there was an empty gallon milk jug and empty half gallon jug and Keith turned around and heard her say to them “you’re my best friends!” And she hugged them both. She hugged the empty milk jugs. she’s so sweet and silly. We just adore her.
Oh and Keith spoils her rotten. He even took a nap with her in her bed today. So sweet.
for the past week cordelia has been carrying around her easter “bucket” every where she goes. every time i look over it seems like she is opening another piece of candy. i just shake my head and laugh.
i have almost given up negotiating with the candy. “eat this entire bowl of strawberries and you can have that” it works about 75% of the time. i ate all the good stuff though LOL, but she has tons of suckers in the bucket (her favorite). she will open one, take a few licks, then toss it back in. on friday night we had friends over and i found her bucket on her table in the kitchen. i went through it laughing hysterically. it was full of half eaten chocolate, open suckers and stickers. she is so funny. this bucket is like her lifeline right now and it is just full of half eaten junk… we even had to take it to home depot the other day.
she is completely obsessed and no matter how frustrating it is to see her melt down over not being allowed to bring her “bucket” or eat that 15th piece of candy for the day, it is so sweet to think about how much this special bucket means to her right now… she is a complete doll.
oh and she said “oopsie daisy” in the sweetest way imaginable all weekend. swoon.
c has been an absolute doll lately. she has been talking up a storm and repeating everything. she is just the sweetest thing ever. she now replies “i love you so much mama” when you tell her that you love her… when we see an airplane in the sky, which is pretty often because we live right near the airport, she says “mama, look! airplane” and then i ask her where she thinks the airplane is going and she always replies “disneyland! mama disneyland!” apparently when you are two every airplane is going to disneyland and that is what being a kid is all about.
lately she has also been asking “mama, what is this??” when she sees or finds something that she doesn’t know the name of. it’s so cute.
she is also reading… when we read her a book before bed I always leave off the last word or few words to the sentence, and no matter what, she always knows them. even with books that we have only read once or twice. she is so smart! the other day she was even reading her “8 silly monkeys” book to herself…
she is getting really good at counting, and then other day I even caught her counting in spanish. really??
she loves to do yoga, lol… look mama i do yoga! and she is constantly telling me “mama, i so hugry right now” even after she just ate a ton of food.
her manners are amazing right now too… “oh, no thank you mama” “yes please, mama” it makes me melt.
the other day i told her that i love her and she threw her arms around my neck, then stopped to look at me and said “i love you SO MUCH MAMA!” the sweetness that oozes out of this little girl is just the most beautiful thing that i have ever seen…
and on top of all the politeness, sweetness and funniness she is also becoming so independent… “no mama, i do it.” it’s awesome and sad…
easter was a blast. she LOVED IT. “MAMA easter bunny came!!” she loved picking up all the candy that the easter bunny left “mama, big mess!!” and spending time with family was great.
we have been so busy with the yard and the house that by the time i sit down at night, the last thing i want to do is type up a blog post… so much is changing in her life though so I really need to try harder. i took a picture of her the other day and it seriously looked like she was 5 years old. where has my little itty baby disappeared too? i ask her “cordelia are you a baby?” “no mama, i not a baby!!”
