Cady-isms

With a bunch of new words in her arsenal, I'm finally getting a few Cady-isms to share. Though most of her cute things only involve the occasional word (but I'll tell the stories anyway).

-This afternoon as I woke her up from her nap, she immediately noticed the television had been turned off. She's recently begun saying "Oh, man" when things aren't as she thinks they are supposed to be. Upon seeing the darkened TV she began: "Oh, man! Where's remote? Oh, man! Oh, man." (For the record, she knows the word "remote" because I constantly ask her to give it to me when she snatches it from wherever it is, lol. And the TV is not on all that often now that she's begun showing an interest in it.)

-She is crazy about coloring nowadays. We constantly have crayons and colored pencils being pulled down. Luckily, it means she's really easy to entertain during Sacrament meeting. In fact, I've taken her to a story time and Barnes & Noble three times. On the third time, as soon as they said "time to color", though she'd been distracted the entire time playing with other books and ignoring the storyteller, she instantly dropped everything and raced to kneel at the edge of the stage. She even waited (though she bounced impatiently) for the paper and the crayons to be handed out. Of course, if Megan goes near her coloring utensils, she shouts "Megan, no!" and moves them away. If this doesn't work, a meltdown shortly ensues, especially in the middle of Sacrament.

-Cadence tends to break into song randomly. Most days, it's a gibberish version of the ABC's, but she does put actual letters in there. At the very least, she gets A, B, & C usually in the right order...

-She hates the vacuum cleaner. As soon as she notices me picking up the living room floor while she's still awake, she knows whats coming and goes running. Today, as soon as I pulled the monster vacuum of mine out, she grabbed her blanket and ran into the hallway to watch. When I got too close for comfort, she hid in the bathroom. I paused to finish moving furniture out of the final corner and she came out asking "All done?" When I told her "not yet", she immediately retreated back to the bathroom and waited until I'd finished and told her "Okay, all done". At which point she ran out to play as if she'd never been upset in the first place.

-She's added "knees" and "hand" to her body part knowledge. The other night during bathtime I noticed a red spot on her backside and asked: "What's that on your butt?" She immediayely pointed to her bellybutton. I corrected her, saying "butt" and tapping her butt. She cracked up and began repeatedly patting her butt and saying "butt" over and over again.

-The other day we went over to Nana's to play with the hose, since our pool was closed and it was hot. At first she ran through the sprinklers, but then we handed her the hose and turned it on and off. Every time she put it down, Chad would turn it on. Then turn it off as soon as she picked it up. Being the brilliant child she is, she quickly decided that putting it down was what caused the water to turn on. So after awhile, every time we turned the water off, she'd immediately lay it down. If it didn't work the first time, she'd pick it up and put it down again. As soon as we turned it off, she'd immediately lay it back down and watch it expectantly and even appear confused if it didn't turn on as soon as she'd laid it down. She also mastered drinking from the hose and thought that was the coolest thing ever!


Megan's learning new things. She barely holds on to things when standing most of the time, but doesn't have the confidence to let go entirely and immediately panics and falls back on her butt if I try to trick her into doing it. She is a master at crawling now, and can crawl almost as fast as Cadence can walk (okay, not really, but it's pretty stinking fast!) She's still babbling like crazy and I swear she's sprouted up 2 inches over the past few weeks. Guess we'll find out at her appointment this week. Anyway, she's everywhere and into everything. She loves loves loves her Daddy, too. Every time she sees him, if it's been too long, she just lights up and wants to be near him. If she's with me when we wake him up in the mornings, she'll lunge towards him and lay against him and grin up at him. If she's playing by herself and sees him, she'll get the biggest grin and crawl to him as fast as she can and beg at his knee to be picked up. She's still got a mommy preference, since I'm the one home with her all day, but she loves her Daddy alright!