every day when c comes home from school she has a small slip of paper that lets me know how her day was. It says what she ate, how she slept, and usually a little synopsis. This was today’s:
“Cordelia had so much fun in Apple Red today! During outside playtime cordelia was running On the playground with her friends! Her hair bow fell off her head and was hanging on her face; so she told her teachers “it’s ok, I’ll just be a pirate!!” [because it was hanging over her eye like an eye patch]
cordelia has been so sweet, as always. she is saying the funniest stuff lately.
“oh i have a great idea!!!! mama it’s yor birfday!!!”
“you my best frend”
“no, no, i don’t like that”
“no don’t hit your friends! you gettin a time out!”
“ohhhhh this is so so tasty!”
“come on guys! let’s dance!”
“mama where i doughing today?”
“i so sick, i just so sick”
“mama i need a snacckkk”
oh and while you are here, why not head over to the Parents Magazine Photo Contest and vote for Cordelia! Someone needs to send this girl to college LOL! You can vote once per day and if you could please help us out that would be fabulous!!
c is officially in size 4t footy aj’s [c slang for pj's]. the 3t’s were too short in the arms and her little toes were all curled under.
c: mama those aj’s are for a baby [pointing to her old ones...]
m: are you a baby?
c: no! i a big gurl!
SIGH. she let’s me know at least 3 times a day that she isn’t a baby, except when she wants to snuggle and she climbs into my lap and declares “mama I a baby, snuggle me?”
april was a blur and so was may, JUNE IS HERE, can you say HOW?
we spent the beginning of the may in san diego visiting my brother and his family. it was so fun! cordelia loved playing with izzy and alex. it was so fun to see them together. the last time we had been together was last year when rowen was born. cordelia followed them both around constantly and LOVED it. she even told me she wanted to stay there and live with them LOL. i had izzy convinced that cordelia was staying… “cordelia staying with us!” sorry babe, but we will be back soon now that you are finally our west coast neighbors.
cordelia is huge. she is talking up a storm and she says the most hilarious things ever. the other day i was trying to tell her how to drive her barbie jeep and she stopped looked at me and said “mama you drivin me NUTS!” i of course bursted into laughter and made her say it over and over again, because that’s what you do in that situation haha.
she also has been saying that she is “super cordelia” lately. she will run into the room and exclaim “i super cordelia! super cordelia saves the day!!!!” when asked what her super power is she says “i zoom!! i zoom to the moon!!!!”
this child sings, constantly. we were sitting outside and she started singing a song about “ouchies” keith and i sat and listened quietly, careful to not interrupt the magic that was unraveeling before us. “don’t wanna get an ouchie, because ouchies are bad and your blankie doesn’t wana get an ouchie, and dad doesn’t wanna get an ouchie and I don’t wanna get an ouchie and mammas boobies don’t wanna get an ouchie [after which i lost it and erupted into laughter egging her on even more] and you don’t wanna use a bandaid, because bandaids make it worse!” it went on and on.
priceless.
she has been riding her strider bike a lot more lately. keith has her convinced that she has to practice so she can go to the “race track”. apparently, he needs a racing buddy. LOL. regardless, she seems to love it and is so proud of herself. last night they were riding their bikes and she said “mama i goin to the PARK!!”
she reads a ton lately too. it isn’t too uncommon for me to find her in her playhouse, playroom or her room quietly reading to her “friends”. she has a lot of the books that we read memorized so it’s pretty cool to hear her “read.”
c’s babydolls mean even more to her now then in recent months. she cares for them like they are real. she loves them so much. it is so sweet to see how gentle and kind she is with them, except when they are in timeout. “No, we don’t hit our friends! You gettin a timeout!” The other day she had like 10 of her stuffed animals and babies in timeout for like hours. it was hilarious.
mama [and] dada you my best friends. sweetness just oozes out of this child and we are truly captivated by her unconditional love, humor and sweetness.
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.
