Who's the Boss?

No, not Tony Danza...Skylar C. It seems that in the past 2 weeks her language has exploded even more. M came back from his work trip in Spain and commented that he came back to a full blown little person.

With language she has gotten pretty bossy, in a cute way. She wanted something to drink and I said,

"OK, I'll get it."

S: "No, sit down Mommy. I get it."

Then she walked to the fridge and started pulling on the handle and said, "ooo, heavy, heavy. Mommy help you?"

So I helped her out. Then she said, "Thank you Mommy."

This morning we were getting in the car to head to my Nana's and she said,

"I want Baby."

So I went in the house and got her doll.

When I returned she said, "Otro Baby!" (My bilingual girl)

I asked, "Baby Susi or Little Baby?"

S: "Little Baby!"

So I went to get Little Baby (which is a scary mutant baby who has no hands or feet courtesy of my dog Rueben.)

When I returned with the Mutant she said, "No! Little Baby Susi!"

Now this is not so cute. But, I got damn Susi and we took off in the car where she made me sing "Jingle Bell Rock" for much of the way. If I stopped she yelled, "Mas Jingle Bell!"

We are working on the "Please" and a better tone for requests -- I promise. She has "Thank you" and "No Thank you" down though.

But, you tend to forget the bossiness when you are driving, sneeze and hear a little voice behind you say, "Bless you."

Motherhood is awesome.

What a way to wake up

I love how kids wake up so happy. This is how I found Skylar after her nap yesterday. What a cutie. Couple that with how much she is talking: "Thank you Mommy for the juicy grapes" was a sentence I received on Friday.

Right now she is obsessed with a baby doll in a stroller and pushes it around, tells the baby "Don't Do That!" tells me she is changing her diaper or "Shhh! Baby is sleeping." Where do little girl's naturally get that? Some serious hard wiring in the genes I tell you because I have not pushed dolls or stressed those behaviors. It is adorable regardless of where it comes from.

Here is an interesting story which makes me think my kid is psychic...

When I was a little girl, I used to pretend that hills we saw in the distance were dinosaurs from the prehistoric ages that laid down to die and were covered with dirt, etc. as time went on. I am not sure where I got or heard that or if I made it up. But, I used to always think it.

I have never shared that with Skylar and we don't really have anything dinosaur related in our house except for 1 book.

Well, we were driving on the 405 near Shady Canyon and there are dry grassy hills off the freeway. She looks at the window and says, "Mommy, look! Dinosaurs!" WTF!!???

A little kindred spirit. I love that girl.