I'm a Little .... what???

Thursdays are a fun day around here... The girls have a school day.. which means that Mommy and Daddy have 2 glorious hours to be alone in the apartment, do some much needed chores, errands or whatever else we can find to do that the girls would usually disturb us doing. After school is over for the girls and they are picked up - Mommy's here - I usually take them over to my mom's house for some Grandma time while I go to the toy shop to work for a few hours. Once I am back at my mom's house, I eat some dinner (sometimes with the girls and other times without them) and then give the girls a bath and get them ready for bed before we head home to see Daddy, watch some Caillou or Angelina Ballerina and then put the girls to bed.

This week was filled with all sorts of cuteisms from the girls...

My mom has all sorts of things hanging on the walls in her kitchen and one of them is a flat wooden teapot... Anna has seen it before but this week she decided to take it off the wall and play with it. This lead to my mom trying to sing the Teapot Song... I'm a Little Teapot... she didn't know the words at all so I had to help her with them... If I hadn't been trying to eat my dinner I would have even done the dance that I learned in PreSchool to help her remember the words.. It was hilarious to listen and watch... We got through a couple of rounds of the Teapot song before Anna tried her hand at singing it on her own.. 'I'm a little tea cup... I'm a little teacup.. tea cup tea cup... " "See me jump"... Total cuteness..

At bathtime Anna said to me (very proudly).. Momma I pooped.. So I peeled off her clothing (a dress jumper, shirt, undershirt and tights) and left her in a diaper and turned my attention to Lily and getting her clothing off (same as Anna) and taking her diaper off after I checked for any presents from her.. As I'm getting Lily done I hear the toilet flush and Anna say "Bye Poopie.. Yucky". She had taken her Pull Up off and taken the poop out and put it in the toilet all by herself before flushing it away.

I had brought home 2 boxes from the toy shop to box up the vases that I would be bringing to my cousin's florist shop so that they can recycle them for new arrangements. While boxing them up Anna followed me down to the basement and tried to help me wrap the vases. Then she and Lily found the shovels that my mom has for them to use when they want to help her shovel the snow (little kid sized). Uh oh... they wound up bringing them upstairs and pretending that they were shoveling the snow outside. Totally fine and great till I told them that we needed to go home.. they insisted that they take the shovels home... but not before they tried to 'help' Grandma shovel some of the snow that is now frozen in place.. but they wouldn't stop attempting to get some snow shoveled. My mom told me that I should start up the car and get it warm for them since they'd probably be freezing once we got them into the car. So I started the car and kiddingly said 'Bye Bye Girls".. That's all they needed. They hightailed it to the car and sat very nicely in their seats while we buckled them in while they still were holding their shovels. The drive home was fun to say the least since they kept bumping each other with them and when I finally asked them to "Stop !", Anna said "Sorry Momma... I stop now... you welcome".

Bananas now equal Gananas in Anna speak... she can say Banana or more precisely Nanas.. but lately it's turned into Ganana. It's cute but I can't wait the actual word again.