An Interview with Lainey

The title of this post should be renamed "Pulling Teeth to Get Lainey to Answer a Few Questions." I had intended to type the exact answers that Lainey gave me, and for the most part I did, but I definitely had to do some prompting to get her to answer some of the questions. She kept getting distracted. :) I think Walker will be a more cooperating subject when it's his turn! :)

Name: Lainey Harris

How old are you? two

How old is Mommy? 22 (Close...I'm 32.)

How old is Daddy? 28

What is your favorite color? pink

What are your favorite animals? horses, puppy dogs

What animals are not your favorite? elephants

What do you like to sleep with in your bed? Austin, Uniqua, Tasha, Pablo, Tyrone, tutus

What is your favorite book to read? Dora

What is your favorite TV show? The Backyardigans

What TV show do you not like? Imagination Movers (specifically the character named Warehouse Mouse)

What is something that is scary? elephants 'cause they blow trunks out of their water (I think she meant that they blow "water out of their trunks.")

I think Walker is...a monkey.

What does Mommy like to do? play with the dollhouse

What does Daddy like to do? ballet (Obviously, this is an answer that Lainey gave on her own. Not sure where she got that one.)

What is your favorite toy? I like my babies.

What song do you like to sing? "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "ABCD"

Which binky is your favorite? the green one

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Cute sayings that she says:

• "My heart is sick. My heart is hurting." (She said this once when she was sad.)
• "Daddy Jane!" (A few days ago she said this while reprimanding Daddy. Jane is Ainsley's middle name.)
• "Mommy, I like your shoulders." (?)
• "Come on hand, let's get out of here." (She said this when she was trying to take off Snow White's dress.)
• "That sunset is dirty." (There were gray clouds covering much of the sunset.)
• Lainey tries to think of ways to touch things that are out of her reach (such as clouds, Gus, balloons). She tells me that she can reach these things using bouncy shoes, a trampoline, or a ladder. :) Once she also told me that she could fly. Naturally, I asked her how she could do that. She said that she had wings (meaning the wings from her ladybug costume). I have to admit, this is a bit scary as I am her mom and don't want her trying to fly anywhere!
• "You my mommy. Yiyia my sweetheart." :)
• She frequently says "I love you" and "I worried about you" (if either of us has been away from her) and "I missed you." She has started to say these phrases on her own without any guidance or prompting...and it completely melts my heart. So sweet.
• She once asked me, "What happened to your big eyebrows, Mommy?" (My children did not get their full eyebrows from me.)
• "I be the winner!" (Lainey loves to be the first one down the stairs. And sometimes, she wants to be the first one up the stairs. This has become somewhat of an obsession, and an opportunity for us as her parents to teach her that she can't always be the "winner." We are still working on getting her to understand that one.)
• "I love you anyway" and "I love you anyway, too." (She got both of these sayings from Olivia, a cute little pig who stars in her own TV show and has a series of books.)
• "It's okay, Mommy. I just choking. I got bad chokes." (She says this whenever she coughs or has a coughing fit.)

Cute words that she says:

• "bwannas" (bananas)
• "Chip-uh-way" (Chick-fil-A)
• "sketti" (spaghetti)
• "Telicity" (Felicity, the name of her doll)
• "someping" (something)
• "Purey-ell" (Purell)
• "two ones" (meaning two of something)
• "stahwbewwies" (strawberries)
• "antennies" (antennas)
• "fridger" (refrigerator, although you don't say this as much anymore)
• "Canelius" (Cornelius, the name of a caterpillar in her book)