Here are my more recent notes from just the past month or two:
Wyatt uses the phrase, “as a matter of fact” quite often. He sounds so sophisticated. Greg finds it very amusing and asked me when he first started, “how many other 3 year olds do you know that have that kind of vocabulary?”
Wyatt dropped something while riding in the car, let out a big sigh, and earnestly explained "it was just sitting here in my lap and then, automatically, a hole formed!"
Artistic photo shoot?! This is how it gets some mornings.
He has gotten where he will flip and flop and play around and kick the wall and build pillow forts instead of going to sleep. One time I even found him asleep in his pillow case with the pillow still in it as well. He had stuck his head up in it and pulled it to his waist, so it was a pillow with legs in the bed, which was tricky deciphering in the dark!
He scrunches up his face and gets mad at me a lot. Sometimes, there’s even a growl to accompany it. Or yelling. And Time-Out.
Wyatt knows that “Daddy sells electricity” and went through a phase where he was asking a lot of questions about electricity. Riding down the road, he’s ask about the power lines or his headphone cord, he asked, “will this electricity me if I hold onto the power lines?”
One night after pretending to sleep/snore, he asked, “can you see my zzzzs?” too cute. Little booger can get out of so much trouble being so darn adorable. Like Greg says, “everyone else is going to hate him. All he’s got to do is flash that smile.” and he gets away with it!
Dellaina uses the phrase, "ok, this is getting to be weird"
One night I asked her about her new Book in a Bag that she got to bring home from school and she told me it was a Junie B. Jones, mooshy, gooshy Valentine. It sounded like Japanese takeout, but without even seeing the cover, I figured out it should be “mushy, gushy”
The English language is so darn tricky. She pronounced it just like it looks as “bass xylophone” and I had to explain to her it’s actually “base” even though that’s not what it looks like. Reading stories and words are so cute at this age. She’s been encouraged to just try to phonetically spell out the words and she’s getting braver and taking more risks and allowing herself to actually do something without it having to be perfectly right!
One day, Wyatt randomly proclaimed, “I am king of China!” Dellaina countered, “you can only be king if you know where it is, can point to it on a map.” And he just as quickly, knowingly responded, “you turn left and then right.” of course!
Dellaina has a book she really likes called “No More Excuses!” and it has a marine biologist in it named Dr. Tortuga and I’d always figured that the name probably meant something and had commented about it once or twice, but then mentioned it again recently and Dellaina exclaims, “yeah, it probably means ‘turtle’ because this book is about sea turtles and The Tortuga in Wild Kratts is shaped like a turtle!” Sure enough, we finally looked it up and tortuga does indeed mean turtle in Spanish. Such an amazing little mind makes so many connections!!
Looking at the back of birthday cards, Wyatt suddenly exclaims, “what?! I didn't know cards were recycling! I didn't know that.” (after seeing the recycling symbol)
Some beautiful, rustic bells appeared hanging on our bathroom doorknob one day. I asked Greg where they came from and he said they were on a package they got at work. He thought I’d like them, so he cut them off and brought them home. Every time I saw them, they made me smile.
Dellaina informed me, “if you can't forgive them, that makes you mean, too.” I asked, “Where did you learn that?” and she shrugged, “I just thought of it and figured it out.” Later, I realized it came from listening to Sugarland’s Mean Girls song and Veggie Tales CDs I’m sure, but still a great concept to know.
She gets mixed up and often uses the word “familiar” for “similar”
