Whenever Rae says something funny I will usually text it to my mom, Emma, Liv or Caitlin. Sometimes I copy and paste the things I texted into a note in my phone and I thought I would take a few of them and make a blog post. I was at my friends house and her little boy kept saying oh gosh, and we thought it was funny and Jeremy said why does he keep doing that? well because Uzma (his mom) always says it. So I thought about how Rae always says "how bout" now because I am always saying how bout we do this and now she is always saying how bout and telling me her own idea.
I was making snickerdoodles for Young Womens one day and I spilled some sugar on the counter and Rae kept walking by and wiping it off with her finger. She kept saying "have some!" and I would say "I don't want to have any". over and over until finally I realized she wasn't talking to me and she was trying to feed sugar to Hugh................................
There is a picture on Jeremy's night stand of me and him when we were dating and Rae went over to it and said its mama! and I said who is mama with? and she said "daddys friend!". Apparently Jeremy has aged to the point where he is unrecognizable in his younger years.....
Jeremy got a little toy from the grocery store and brought it home to Rae. It was an egg that you put in the bathtub and it dissolves and makes the water change colors and then there's a little dinosaur. He shows it to Rae and explains its a dinosaur egg with a dinosaur inside and he puts her in the bathtub and as soon as he drops the egg in she starts screaming and I have to pick her up and she keeps crying until Jeremy holds up the little dinosaur and Rae stops, picks it up and says "Its just a baby dinosaur!" Not sure exactly where her imagination went with that but I thought it was funny.
One day Rae randomly tells me that there's a baby in my tummy and I say no, not any more baby brother was in my tummy but he came out now. She said "baby brother grew wings" no... he didn't grow wings.... then she says, "a little hole, he pushed his way out and he was a beautiful butterfly" Now I realize she thinks this is like the book the very hungry caterpillar... "okay yeah, baby Hugh is a beautiful butterfly".
We have an ongoing problem with the fire alarms in this house. They have gone off in the middle of the night a few times and sometimes the one in Raes room just beeps a couple times. Rae then yells my beep! my beep! and Jeremy will take it down and the next day Rae will ask all day "Where did my beep go???" She will also notice if mommys beep is gone.
We have been working on asking for things instead of crying. Rae has gotten pretty good but she mixes up her you and Is sometimes and will say "Can you go to the park?" Can I help me?"
She notices the stars at night and she will point and get excited and say "Look! the twinkle little star!" We go out and look at the stars sometimes and one time I said "look Rae the moon! I love you all the way to the moon and back". then she says, "Nutbrown hare".
I have had this conversation daily,
"Are you ready for nap Rae?"
"maybe later"
"no we better go read books now"
"The sun came up mum"
"how bout we read two books"
"two books!" and she runs to her room.
Basically the fact that she talks to me is funny and she doesn't have to say much to make me laugh :) I have spent two years staying home talking to a baby and now I have someone who talks back and it somehow still surprises me every time.
