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.