Out of the mouths of babes....

    Skylar is getting bigger everyday and I am always amazed at how quickly she learns new skills! She is very vocal, just not in the way I had necessarily expected her to be. By this I mean she doesn't necessarily use words in the English language as much as she babbles and screams at the top of her lungs. Lately though she has begun using  her words more and. more. Andrew and I love how she makes animal sounds. You can ask her what a froggy says and she says "ibbit,ibbit" A duck says "quackquack", a cat says "meyaw", a sheep says"baaaa" and so forth. She also does this totally cute thing where if you ask her "what does Grandpa (or Grandma, or daddy, or mama) say?" she points her finger and says "No,no,no,no".  I know, its freakin' adorable!!
     SO we are in the van the other day and Sky is getting restless and fussy so we are singing songs and going through our animal sounds. She is so on top of her game, doing every animal sound correctly, when I say.... "What does Mommy say?" and my sweet little daughter, without a seconds hesitation,  replied "moooo" and then snorted like a pig!! Andrew of course laughs hysterically which makes Skylar keep snorting over and over again and saying "Mooooooo".

I'm thinking its time to go on a diet.

 (Andrew by the way hasn't stopped laughing and loves to recant the story to me lest I forget!)
   

Hide-N-Seek

     Lately my little monster has been hiding when she doesn't agree with whatever I have planned for her (which is quite often). I use the term "hiding" quite loosely, it usually consist of her ducking her head or standing against a wall in plain view while trying to make herself as flat as possible. Luckily so far she has always been easy to "find". Tonight however as I prepared her crib for bedtime (I currently have to move it to the middle of the room so she doesn't pull her Spiderwoman routine and scale the walls to get out) she saw me and ran out of the room. It was a very frantic run accompanied with squeals, giggles and flailing arms. I, being a great Toddler Interpreter, knew this was the lead in to a game of hide-N-seek. Since I am always the victor in this game I had no worries.

     15 minutes later you find me standing in the foyer scratching my head, my cocky smile no longer on my face, calling Skylar's name while wondering if it was possible she was kidnapped or mistaken for a kitty treat by Duchess. (ok so that was reaching a bit but if you were missing a small child and saw Duchess licking her chops with her gluttonous belly hanging out in all its glory you would have leapt to that conclusion too, rational or not.) I seriously had NO clue as to where she was, I had checked all the obvious places and was now looking in places that made absolutely no sense (under couch cushions, in the diaper bag, etc) Then I hear it, a giggle, and right there in front of me her little head peeks out!!! She was hiding behind her tent! I know, I know, it sounds like I dropped the ball on the whole seeking thing but really I didn't, there's a plant behind the tent!! Sky was sitting on the base of the plant with her arms and legs wrapped around the plant and she is giggling incessantly! The scores were in: Mommy 0 Skylar 1, I am no longer the Hide-N-Seek champion!! SO next time my little imp goes running I will frantically follow close behind, my arms flailing!!