Fan Dance and Funnies

I'm not sure where she gets this stuff?

And, as I periodically do...I am going to record some of the ridiculous things that Lainey says/has said. I know, I know, a very "mom" thing to do. But, I periodically do this, so that one day we can look back and smile!

• “You’re the best mommy that I ever seen/had.” / “You’re the greatest mommy that I ever seen/had.” / “You’re the best mommy on the whole wide world.”
• “Am I the best that you’ve ever never seen before?”
• "I'm a genius!" (She'll say this when she does something noteworthy, like discover that string cheese dipped in mustard and ketchup tastes good.) "I'm another genius!" (She'll follow up with this statement after discovering something equally exciting, like pretzels dipped in mustard and ketchup tastes yummy, too.)
• “I can’t throw it (the piece of trash) in there (the trash can) because I’m a little scared.”
• “I put on the bug Chapstick to keep the bees away.” (Dad's Burt’s Bee’s Chapstick)
• Things can be “so disgusting.”
• "Twelvedy sevendy." (She sometimes gets confused when identifying big numbers. "Twelvedy sevendy" is 27, I think.)
• Me: "I hear a lawnmower outside." Lainey: "No, I think that's just Daddy's toothbrush."
• Uses words like interesting, and attention, boring, intentions, and actually. And rarely are they used in the correct context.
• "I did that for a reason." (Again, she has no idea what this means. She just hears me say it!)
• “She cracks me up.” (Lainey said this while talking about Yiyia.)
• “What is that little pumpkin doing?” (A "pumpkin" is a "baby.")
• “I can’t handle it.” (When faced with a seemingly difficult task.)
• "I'm gymnast of the day!" (Lainey was awarded "Gymnast of the Month" for the month of January! However, she kept saying that she was the "gymnast of the day" or "gymnast of the week.")
• Ever the optimist... “Oh, Mom! This is a GREAT parking space!” (Even though we are more than three-quarters of the way out from the building.)
• She gets SO excited about small things. Like a charm falling off of her bracelet – because now it can be a necklace with other charms! 
• “He’s getting so big!” / “He’s getting bigger!” (Walker is getting bigger and more fun to play with!)
• “Walker is chapping on the walls!” (Walker was putting Chapstick on the walls.)
• Lainey loves reading books. She starts with the title, and makes up words to go with each picture. And she has some fascinating made-up names for the characters (and her dollies, and pictures of dollies, just anyone who she thinks needs a name...none of the names make sense...almost as if she's using a foreign language).
• "Her coat has a boner on top of it!" (Lainey was referring to her teacher's coat...it is a puffy coat with a hood and fake fur around the hood - in other words, she was trying to think of the word "bonnet" but could only come out with the word "boner.")
• "I was just gonna sneak on you." (Meaning she wanted to surprise me.)
• “My tummy just wants__________.” (Usually, it wants fruit snacks.)
• “Here, Walker. Talk to Yiyia. She’s your best friend!”
• “Walker! Bud and Yiyia are coming over! They love you.”
• “You are hurting my feelings!” / "I'm not going to be nice EVER again!" / "I am not being very nice! Arrgh!" (Stomp, stomp, stomp and storm away and shut herself in her room.)
• “For the love of Pizza!” ("For the love of Pete" - something I think I say a lot.)
• Boys she talks about: Tate (she wants to go to his house every day and she loves him), Gage, John(ny), Keegan (he is our neighbor), Connor (he wants to come over to play with her princess castle)
• “I’m so glad that God put that in the bathroom." (It was a vanilla-smelling air freshener. If she doesn't know who is responsible for something, then she always says that God did it.)
• Lots of things are “snuggly.”
• “But I just wanted pink teeth!” (Her reason for coloring her teeth with Chapstick.)
• “Talking back is very boring.” (?)
• “Don’t see me.” (When she doesn’t want to be talked to or looked at.)
• The movie is called Belle and the Beast, not Beauty and the Beast.
• "Diaper change means you have to switch partners and dance with them."
• “Wake up me. Throw up it to me.”
• “softie roughie” (when describing something sort of soft and sort of rough ) / “softie hurtie" (when describing something that is kinda soft but also hurts - like when I'm brushing her hair  / "pinky reddy" and "pinkish purplish" and "orangey brownish" (when describing the colors of something)
• "I'm up to something."
• “Mommy, watch this!” (the most over-used phrase of December 2011)
• When she cries, Walker walks over to her and gives her a big hug. Cutest thing. (That is, when he doesn’t start crying himself.)
• “Go down that aisle!” (“Aisle” means “street” - she most often said this when we were out looking at Christmas lights.)
• “We did crafts and arts.” 
• And “I got it at Norstrom Racket.”
• “Shovel, step! Shovel, step!” (Shuffle, step! Shuffle, step!)
• “Do what I do, Mommy! Passé, tandu, leap, twirl, jump, shovel, step, passé, tandu.”
• “I used to be a tiny Polly Pocket shoe.” (how Lainey describes herself when she was in my tummy)
• I buckled my whole self in! Did you ever see me so good?”
• “That’s okay, Mommy. I forgive you.” (or “That was my fault. Do you forgive me?” or “That was your fault. But I forgive you.”)
• “My arm scratches.” (Her arm itches.)
• The bag fell over and fell on its legs!” (the bottom of the bag is the “legs”)
• “My foots don’t fit in his shoes.” / “Both foots hurt.”
• “Why didn’t you (move when that car moved) or (get me my milk?)?” or “Mommy! You didn’t see ____________!” (Usually it’s something completely unimportant  - a commercial on TV or something she sees out the window of the car - yet apparently, it’s very important to her that I see everything that she does.)
• Lainey: “I like the way John looks.” Me: "What do you like best about him?" Lainey: “His face.”
• “I don’t wanna break into a million pieces.” (what could happen if she falls)
• “Bud is the nicest boy.” (He brought us dinner one night.)
• “I might fall asleep for one minute.”
• "I just took a tiny nap." (Meaning, she did not take a nap. At all.)
• “I’m not ever going to play with you never ever again.” (She uses lots of double negatives.)
• “Mommy, I love you all the time in the day.” 
• “I love you all the week.”
• “Mommy, I just went a little wee wee in my pants. But I love you THIS much.” (She extends her arms out really wide to show me.)
• “When I was with Bud and Yiyia and Ella (in JULY) I was riding a horse and I went a little wee wee in my pants.” (at the Fort Worth stockyards)
• “I saw that first! But you’re still the best mommy.”
• Lainey's very into saying “I’m bigger than her/him.” (Confusing "bigger" with "older." Age is just a number with this kid.)
• Lainey: “My legs are getting so long.” Me: “I know. You are just growing up so fast.” Lainey: “But I’m just 3-1/2. My legs are 3-1/2. My nose is 3-1/2.”
• “I always have to go potty when I have accidents.”
• “I am amazing.”

At this point...

• She is always talking, climbing, jumping, bouncing, dancing, and squealing. 
• She likes to talk like a baby (kinda frustrating) and we have to remind her that she's a big girl and should talk like one. She also likes to ask us how she said certain words as a baby. But that's kinda fun for me - I like remembering that stuff. :)
• She's fascinated with potty talk. Again, we have to remind her not to talk about such things!
• Once she tried to climb on my exercise ball so that she could touch the top of the mantle (bad idea).
• Lainey's teachers describe her joy as "infectious." She is happy, and she makes others happy. I love that about Lainey.
• She pretty much only wears dresses (with some form of leggings). "Twirling dresses" are especially popular with Lainey. I think she's worn a pants/shirt outfit two or three times in the past few months. Crazy girl. :) In the mornings, Lainey will fixate on what her friends Ainsley and Kaitlyn will wear to school that day, particularly if she is in an outfit that she doesn't think is very fancy or quite up to her standards. When did she turn 14? :)
• She tears at her nails and cuticles. Just like her mom and dad. I don't ever need to trim her nails anymore; she does it herself!
• She likes to put her feet on me - usually on my legs - whenever we read stories. Funny. But they are always there.
• She sings and makes up songs all day long. She also sings when she's going potty - even at school!
• She loves to engage Walker in conversations and games. He will do almost ANYTHING for her.
• She is my positive, optimistic, and glass-half-full kid who sees the silver lining in everything.
• She pretends to be asleep.
• She has become attached to “Beary” from Dr. Ty (her dentist). He gave her the bear as a reward for giving up her binky. :)

I love you Lainey Lou! You crack us up!