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My daughter

Chloe is at that too cute, yet sometimes too annoying, age of 2 1/2. She is lovely and fun and adorable, oh, say 93% of the time. The other 7% she can be a pain in the you-know-where, as all children between the ages of two and...well, I was going to say 3, but probably 103 is more accurate. Anyhoo, my daughter does say the darndest things, there, Bill Cosby ~ you should put her on your show. If it wasn't canceled. OK, I am talking nonsense 'cause it's 5:30 in the morning, and I haven't finished my prep for today's English class, so I am up blogging, 'cause that really helps a person get ready for the day.

Some quotable quotes from Chloe:

• "Brodes is a cute little fella." (last night while looking at her sleeping brother)
• "Mom, your hair is upside down!" (when my bangs were over my eyes)
• "There's a green light behind my nose" (don't ask me!)
• "Is he a girl?" (really loudly, in a video store, after meeting one of my male students who has long hair)

The paradox of early morning blogging- it may be the only time you are able to sit down and do it without some two-year old distracting you by saying cute (or weird) things to you, but it's so early your brain isn't working yet, so you can't remember all the cute, weird things your two year old has said to you that you meant to blog about. So...sorry about the lameness of this post. There are many more funny things Chloe has said, and I will post them after I get some sleep. So...in about 20 years!

Funny Stuff

Okay, you HAVE to go over to KK On My Mind and follow the link in the post. It is hilarious! And you'll learn something too!

Chloeisms

Chloe is at that oh-so-cute age where she is adding new words to her vocabulary almost daily, and her mispronunciations of  lots of those words are just adorable. Its so hard not to repeat them, even though you are supposed to model the proper pronunciation. Brodie is always telling me to "Say it PROPERLY in front of her, mom". But who can resist repeating these:

• "womints" for almonds
• "Marfa" for her daycare provider (named Martha)
• "Bodie" for Brodie
• "skishing" for squishing (As in "Bodie skishing me")
• "fider" for spider
• "bunkie" for blanket
• "gamma" and "gampa"
• she says "Gimme fies" for "give me five", but funnily enough when she is referring to French fries, she calls them "pies"
• "comcomber" for cucumber, one of her favorite foods
• "goss" for gross
• my personal favorite "I lub you mommy"
• "keen up" for clean up: she loves to wipe things down with a rag, which gives me hope that maybe my messy genes and her dad's messy genes have canceled each other out and we have created a tidy person

She came up to me just now and said "Here's your hat, mommy" and handed me an Easter basket. She had one on her head:

Enriching the English Language, Part 1

Parenthood adds many things to your life ~ some wonderful (the lovey stuff), some not so much (the gooey dirty gross stuff). One of the things is new words that you never thought you'd use. I admit to uttering the most cliche phrase in the English language: "Don't run with those scissors." But I'm telling you the truth ~ if your kid is running with a sharp object in their hand, there is no way on Earth that you can't say something. Sometimes there isn't a word that exists for what you are trying to say ~ then you invent words. Here are a couple that our family have come up with.

I am still nursing my 20 month old baby, and she is quite the talker. Sometimes she asks for "booby" (I know, I know, you're supposed to teach your kids the correct terms ~ but I didn't. I just don't see the harm, and I think "breast" would be really hard for her to say. I do admit that it was embarrassing the other day when I showed up a bit early to pick up my son from school, and the teacher invited Chloe and I to come in ~ Chloe was tired and as soon as I sat down on a chair and pulled her into my lap she started yelling "booby, booby!" and trying to get into position!) and sometimes she asks for "nap". (Whew, run on sentence there, English teacher) Anyway, recently, to save time (she's a busy toddler) she has combined the two. Now she will ask for a "boobynap". Charming! I'm glad she wasn't saying that the day I picked Brodie up early!

You know when kids are getting over a cold, and they have those dried out boogers that disappear and reappear with every breath? Around here, we call 'em "peek-a-boogers". Nice, eh? (My husband pointed out that we didn't actually coin this term. I wish I could give credit where credit is due, but I don't remember the person's name. She was the mom of one of the kids at Brodie's first daycare ~ thats the best I can do!)

And then there's when they are mid-cold and have a gigantic sneeze and a huge amount of... well, you know (usually bright green) comes out. Well, thats a "snotterfall". I DID come up with that one. I think a mention in Oxford's Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language would be appropriate.

For some reason when I started this post, I thought I had more of them, but that actually seems to be all I can remember for now. If I remember more, I will post.

I haven't mentioned my weight loss goal lately.Thats because I stepped on the scale the other night to get a "baseline" and was pretty discouraged. It's actually about 15 pounds I need to lose. (I know I'm Canadian and I should be using kilos, but I just can't think in them. I am old enough that I was in grade 4 or 5 when we switched, and I guess my formative measurement learning years occurred before then, because I still get confused by meters, kilos, etc.)

Anyhoo- confession time. I weigh (gulp) 154.5 pounds. I'd like to weigh 140. I was 135 when I got pregnant with Brodie nine years ago, so I think thats reasonable. The calorie counter thingy I joined isn't actually working out that well. It took a long time to find the foods. I do think I need to keep track though, so I will have to figure something out. Otherwise its just too easy to go overboard.

I did go snowboarding today! It was great even though we only did two runs and it was HOWLING with wind and snowing. I just love it! Only eight more times to go, and I will have reached my goal of 10 for the season. It looks like we are going tomorrow too. It was raining like crazy here earlier, so presumably it was snowing on the mountain, so it should be good!

Well, I think I see a snotterfall, and Chloe wants a boobynap, so I guess thats all for now!