Saturday Top Five Laughs

I remember when Saturday Top Five Laughs just started and it has been months since I have participated, but I am trying to make more of an effort to blog more.  As a mom of an almost three year old  (TUESDAY!) I find myself cracking up at things Cecilia says multiple times a day.   I love Melissa’s blog hop for that reason, because one day I can look back and remember these innocent toddler years.

My Top Five Saturday Laughs for this week

1.        Saturday we attended an Easter egg hunt in my hometown.  When I was younger, they would release bunnies in a fenced in area and allow the kids to chase them.  If you caught a bunny, you got to take it home for you.  Times have changed and the Humane Society probably told the Lions  Club in my hometown that it was animal cruelty.  So now instead of chasing bunnies, kids can take a rabbit home if they find an egg with a “R” on it.  Guess who got an “R” egg? Yup, Cecilia!  She was soooo excited, but mommy wasn’t very excited.  I had images in my head of a rabbit leaving little droppings all over my house, images of our Miniature Schnauzer eating a rabbit…..  If Ci was a little older, then yes, she could have kept the rabbit, but at two she’s just not responsible enough to feed it every day and clean it’s cage.  She was not very happy with me when I told her no.  She put her hands on her hips and said, “BUT MOMMY I HAVE WANTED A BUNNY MY WHOLE LIFE!” I cracked up!! As hard as it was to say no to that little pout we did not come home with a bunny.  Instead she got cuddle time with her cousin’s bunny.

2.       Last Friday night my mom brought over an Easter dress that my parents had bought for Cecilia.  It was gorgeous!  As soon as my mom pulled it out of the dress bag, Ci gasped and said “A princess dress for me!?”  My mom helped her put it on and she twirled and twirled showing us her princess dress.  She wore it on Sunday for Easter and every day since she asks if she can wear her princess dress to daycare.

3.       One night this week, Daniel’s friend came over.  We were talking about something and his friend said ‘I don’t know where I am going to get money for that, I guess I will just pull it from my butt.’ I looked at him and warned that we had little ears around.  He said ‘Well I didn’t say the a word, I said butt!’  Cecilia never lets anything slip, she said ‘Well I pull farts out of my butt.’  I didn’t know whether to laugh or be mortified, that my angelic little girl said fart in front of mixed company.  We all laughed! While Ci is a girly girl and loves dressing up in her tutus, she does go to daycare with mostly boys – the girls are outnumbered 5 to 3. So she knows all about bodily functions…

4.       Wednesday was Cecilia’s friend, S’s birthday.  S turned five and this weekend she is also having a Hello Kitty birthday party to celebrate.  Well when Daniel picked Ci up from daycare Miss Sally sent a cake pop home with her since they made cake pops for S’s birthday and had extras.  So when I get home I ask Cecilia, “Oh, wow, who’s birthday was today?”She said “MINE!” I said “No your birthday is next Tuesday.  I think S’s birthday was today.”  She is in denial anyone else’s birthday can be in April, she thinks April is HER month!  Also when you ask Cecilia how old she is going to be she says “FIVE!” (Up until last week she said three, but since S is turning five, Ci wants to be five too.) I will correct her and tell her she is turning three, then she says “But I don’t want to be three, I want to be five!” She’s rushing it on me…I want to keep her this age and innocent forever. 

5.       Daycare was closed on Easter Monday so Cecilia spent the day with my parents.  My parents spoil her and she loves going over there.  Well, on Tuesday when I took a left out of our neighborhood instead of a right, Cecilia started crying.  I asked her what was wrong, she said “I don’t want to go to Miss Sally’s, I want to go to Mom mom and Pop pop’s!”  I am amazed how she knows that we turn right to go to my parents (she could tell me all the turns to get there) and we take a left for daycare.  It’s not that she dislikes daycare (she LOVES it), but she just wanted one extra day with my parents.

If you want to join in on Saturday’s Top Five Laughs be sure to visit Melissa at The Mommyhood Chronicles!  Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!  We have a fun day ahead of us, we are going to S's Fifth Birthday Party Hello Kitty style of course and then my parents are hosting a get together for my mom's side of the family.  I'm excited, I haven't seen some of them since Thanksgiving!

Saturday's Top Five Laughs: 10/8

I am sorry I haven't been as active on my blog this week.  It's been a crazy busy week at work and at home.  We are super bummed here in the A Household that the Phillies are out of the play offs.  Congrats to the Cards fans though (especially Julie!).  We have a busy day planned today, we're taking Cecilia to a local orchard for their annual Fall Fest.  Then we are heading down to Southern Delaware to Daniel's step father's house in Lewes for a little family get together.  It will probably be the last time we eat crabs for the season, as the crabbing season on the Chesapeake is winding down.  I promise more posts (and tweets!) next week.

Cecilia's Top Five Laughs from this week were:

1. On Sunday morning while getting Ci dressed I went to put socks on her.  She looked at me and said "I don't wear socks (except when she says socks, she drops the s so it sounds like "ock") I don't go bye, bye!" I told her we weren't going anywhere.  She still refused to put socks on. It was still chilly and I didn't want her walking around with bare feet.  Luckily she did have a pair of Dora slippers she got for Christmas last year that were too big for her then. She agreed to put them on, they just barely fit this year.  Once again Dora saves the day!

2.  On Tuesday at daycare Cecilia got in trouble at daycare for biting a little boy, B who is also her age.  This is Cecilia's first time biting at day care.  B has bit her at least ten times since about March.  I hope she's not getting into the biting stage now.  Anyway, when we got home from daycare we put Cecilia in time out and let her know it was from biting B.  After two minutes in time out was up I made her tell me she was sorry for biting B and that she wouldn't do it again.  When she got up, she ran and got her sock monkey, she brought the monkey over to me, touched his mouth to my leg and then said "No, bad monkey!" She ran over put the monkey in time out and said "Don't bite mommy, monkey! It's not nice...now you go in time out for 2 minutes! Then say sorry!"   I was able to snap a pic while she was putting the monkey in time out.

3. We are potty training Cecilia and it's not easy! I thought she'd be potty trained in no time, because my mom said I was super easy to potty train.  She is no longer wearing pull ups while at home, just underwear. This morning while I was getting her dressed she asked me to put her monkey diaper on her. Her monkey diaper is the Luvs diaper we used when she was at daycare. I guess she saw them in her changing table.  Sigh My girl will be going to college and still wanting to wear her monkey diaper!

4. Ci loves her stuffed animals. Every night when she goes to bed she does a roll call of her stuffed animals.  There's my Ellie, there's dolphin, there's ray (sting ray), there's teddy bear, there's piggy, etc.  Well on Sunday her Pop Pop Charley (instead of calling her grandparents by their last name, Ci started calling them Pop pop or Mom mom and then whatever their dog's name is, so my parents are Mom Mom and Pop Pop Cody, Daniel's dad and step mom are Pop Pop Charley and Mom mom Chloe and Daniel's step dad is Pop Pop Ernie, which is his real name or Pop Pop Sinsin, his dog's name is Sinamon) gave her another sock monkey and another elephant. So they have been added to the roll call.... one night the sock monkey wasn't in bed.  "Where's my Pop pop charley monkey?" I don't know I told her.. Then she said "Oh, he's in mommy and daddy room, he sleep with you tonight!" I thought that was so sweet she thought of others, even though the sock monkey was actually in her play room.

5.  When we pick Ci up from daycare she insists on puting all of the toys away.  She'll even try to take toys other kids are playing with and put them away.  It amazes me how she knows what bin toys go in.  Yesterday she must of been baking cookies, she had an oven mit on and was pretending to get something out of the oven.  She insisted on putting every little piece of kitchen toy away in the right spot.  (There had to be 15-20 things out). I love she loves putting her toys away at day care, she  needs to start putting them away at home!

Well, I am off to get Ci and myself ready for the pumpkin patch! Have a great weekend!

Saturday's Top Five Laughs

I loved doing last week's Saturday's Top Five Laughs, I plan on doing it every Saturday.  It is where you put the funniest thing your kid(s) have done this week.

1.  On Sunday while watching the Ravens game over to my parents, (they won, yay!) Cecilia took the remote off the coffee table which was next to where my dad was sitting.  She handed it to him and said "I watch Dora & Boots, Pop pop." My dad laughed, but kindly let her know, "No, Cici we're watching football." She put one hand on her hip, the other hand on the remote and said "Nooooooooooooooooooooo, Pop pop I watch Dora & Boots!" This went on for about three minutes. It was hilarious, because my dad couldn't keep a straight face.  Every time her told her no he tried hard not to laugh.

2.  All week during her bath Cecilia is a dog.  She wants me to give her a bath like I give Cari, our dog.  She even got the doggy shampoo out of the cabinet and asked me to use it on her.  Don't worry I didn't, I pretended to use it, but still used her baby shampoo.  After her bath she'd crawl around the house pretending to be her doggy.  Thankfully she didn't eat anything out of Cari's dog dish!

3. On Wednesday night, Ci's Halloween costume came in from ETSY seller minnieschild.  I tried it on her just to make sure it fit and ever since she has tried to wear it to daycare every day and even today to my cousin's daughter's second birthday party (which was a Mickey Mouse theme).  It is going to be a long month if Cecilia is asking to wearing her Minnie Mouse costume every day.

4.  Like Hayley (Melissa's from The Mommyhood Chronicles daughter) Cecilia has learned that she can delay her bedtime. One night this week she played shy and didn't want to give my husband kiss before bed.  I put her to bed to tuck her in when she tells me, "I need to give daddy a kiss." She gets out of bed runs to the family room where was Daniel was and gives him a kiss, then she tells him she wants to watch football (he was watching baseball). We let her stay up another five minutes, but she eventually went to bed.

5.  My mom just told me of this last one.  I am sick today (I've been sick all week with a cold, but today it seems to have gotten worse..I just wanted to stay home and rest since I worked crazy hours with our aduit at work) so I didn't go to my cousin's daughter, Gracie's second birthday party.  I felt horrible for not going, but I would have felt worse if some else got this nasty cold. My mom took Cecilia.  When they left mom said Cecilia gave my aunt and cousin a hug and the next thing she knows she ran back inside and gave every single person at the party a hug, including my cousin's husband's family.  She does this at daycare every day, she has to give each of the daycare kids a hug bye as well as Miss Sally and Dawn (Miss Sally's daughter in law who helps out), but it surprised me she gave complete strangers a hug.

I hope everyone is having a great Saturday (and that no one else is stuck home sick like me!).  Be sure to root for the Phillies againest the Cardinals tonight! We want a repeat of 2008!!!

Here's Cecilia in her favorite Phillies shirt

Be sure to also check out Melissa over to The Mommyhood Chronicles Saturday's Top Five Laughs and enter her giveaway while you are there.

Saturday's Top 5 Laughs

This week I am joining in The Mommyhood Chronicles Saturday's Top 5 Laughs.

Cecilia is getting to that age, she'll be two and a half next month where she is very vocal. I love it! Years from now it will be fun to look back on this with her.

Here are my top 5 laughs from this week:

1. Cecilia was quite the dancer at my cousin's wedding reception on Saturday, it didn't matter what type of music was on she was out on the dance floor shaking her booty. She was determined to keep up with the big kids!

She's the littlest one there.

2. Every night after Cecilia is getting out of the bath tub, brushing her teeth and while we put her pajamas on we sing songs.  Each night I ask her what song she wants to sing, her current favorites are "Bumblebee Song", "ABCs" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." On Wednesday night I asked her what song she wanted to sing and she said "Birthday song." So we sang the "Happy Birthday song." When I got to the part of whose birthday it was, she said Jackson's (little boy from daycare who recently had a birthday.) I love how she is beginning to remember things.

3.  On Thursday night as we were putting her pajamas on I asked her what we were going to sing.  She said "Play-doh" (her play doh was still out from where she played with it earlier). I told her there wasn't a play doh song.  She said "Uh huh mommy "and sings," Play-doh, play-doh, PLAAAYYYYYY DOOOHHHHH. All done mommy, now you sing.."

4.  Friday night after work we went grocery shopping to the place I hate the most, our local Super Wal Mart.  Wal Mart is the most convenient place for us to shop after we pick Cecilia up from daycare.  I loathe Wal Mart, I'd much rather spend the extra money and go to Safeway.  Daniel refuses though, he claims WalMart has the best prices (which they do), but I just cannot stand some of the people who shop there.  There isn't a website called People of WalMart for nothing.  We still don't buy our meat from there though...just the essentials (toilet paper, paper towels and some groceries). Anyway, when we turned in the opposite direction of home, Cecilia asked "Are we going to Mom mom and Pop pop's?"  We told her "No, we're going to WalMart." Then she said "We're going to WalMart!? Cici's Walmart?!" As we get closer every building she sees she points, "That's Cici's WalMart." I tell her, "No that's Lowes." Then she sees another shopping Center, "Is THAT Cici's WalMart?" "Nooo.."  Finally when WalMart is in view, "There's Cici's WalMart!" I love how everything is hers and how she refers to everything in third person even if it is WalMart.

5. Tonight we showed Cecilia the brochure for the amusement park we will hopefully be visiting tomorrow (weather permitting!) and she sees it and says, "Wow, mommy look at those slides!" Referring to all of the rollercoasters.  We laughed, we never thought of how a roller coaster, especially on a map can look like slides to a two year old.

Visit Melissa from The Mommyhood Chronicles' "Saturday's Top 5 Laughs" What are your kids Top Five Laughs from this week?

Also, I don't have any guesses to where we are going today (Saturday) yet.  The first follower of mine to guess correctly will get a prize, regardless if we go or not.

Have a great weekend everyone!