Monday, August 1, 2011

Our talking toddler...

Early one day Reese asked if we could go outside and play. I told her it was yucky outside (it was dark and rainy), so we would probably be staying inside today. A couple hours later the sun came out. Reese looked out the window and said, "look mom, it's not dirty outside anymore."


Reese: I want juice mom
Me: Sorry sweety we don't have any juice, it's all gone.
Reese: (total look of shock) What?? No juice, how do these things happen??


Me: Reese will you stop growing up and stay my baby forever?
Reese: Sorry mom have to grow up...it's life.


While driving home from the mall, I had just gotten off the phone with Arnold...
Reese: Who talking to mom?
Me: daddy.
Reese: Mine daddy?
Me: Yes your daddy.
Reese: Arnold daddy?
Me: You only have one daddy honey...that would be Arnold.
Reese: One daddy but two grandpa's? (Arnolds parents are visiting and Reese is still grasping the concept of two sets of grandparents.)
Me: yep, two grandpa's.
Reese: grandpa and candy grandpa? Where candy grandpa? (my dad is "candy" grandpa)
Me: He's in Idaho, that's where he lives. He's coming to visit you in a couple weeks though.
Reese: Let's go get him and have two grandpa's together?
Me: Sorry sweety it's not that easy.
Reese: miss mine candy grandpa. I schatzie...grandpa's treasure.

(Schatzie is what my dad call's Reese. It's an Americanized version of the German word schatzen, which means little treasure. It is a term of endearment in Germany like princess or sweetheart. The Americanized version got started when an American GI married a German girl after WWII and started calling her “Schatzie” instead of “Schatzen.”)


Arnold: Reese that's a cute shirt is it new?
Reese: Yep, mom bought it at Old Lady. (Old Navy)


Reese ran to the bathroom after playing outside all afternoon. When she emerged...
Reese: Mom I had accident...pee peed on the bathroom floor and rug.
Me: Of course you did. That only makes sense considering I just cleaned the floor and washed the rugs today.
Reese: (all smiles) Yep...a course I did.


Reese: Mom...I tired.
Me: You are? Do you want to take a nap?
Reese: (shaking her head) Don't be silly mommy.


Reese was looking at a picture of herself from last summer:
Reese: That me mommy?
Me: Yep, that was last summer.
Reese: Where mine hair go?
Me: You didn't have very much hair last year.
Reese: Why cause? Hair all gone?
Me: It was still growing from when you were a baby.
Reese: Oh oh oh...hair growing. Now I have big girl hair.

1 comment:

empty nester said...

So Cute!!!!
Just love those kids. Oh, love that Arnold also!!