Our Kids

It turns out that Piper says the funny stuff and Lela is funny all in the delivery. Lela has comedic genius written all over her and Piper has that, “Hey meet you in back of the school for a smoke,” mischievously funny side. This morning I was talking to Landis as we are all getting dressed, if you just speak to her she is all smiles, coos, grins and giggles, anyway I was talking to her and calling her “Sunshine” (what my folks call me) and Lela looked up at me and said, “Her name is not Sunshine it is Landis Olivia.” The delivery was quite cute and the fact that we don’t say Landis Olivia were what amazed me. I don’t know how she remembered her middle name was Olivia.

Now Piper is equally amusing in a “I am going to throw myself under the truck” kind of way. All day today she has been a pistelero, she unrolled all the paper towels, threw two forks on the floor, drank her milk and then let it all dribble down her chin to the floor, spilled her oatmeal on her jacket and pants, emptied the tupperware cabinet, unstuck all the post it notes and stuck them all around the floor, threw her pots and pans behind the TV, got peanuts out of a packing box and broke them up, crumbled a cornbread muffin (from the neighbor) into bits on her computer table and a number of other things. She does all these things in the span of like two minutes since they are never really ever left alone for longer than that, I mean I have to pee sometime:) I think she is feeling her wheaties and seeing what I will tolerate, I think she is looking for attention. Now in my universe I just ignore all the aforementioned infractions and spend extra time reading, cuddling and paying positive attention to her. In my parenting manual (the made up one in my head) children will take any kind of attention good or bad so I choose to not give bad attention and give more good attention (see me when they are teens, I am sure this nonsense will have had NO effect;-P).

As for the funny things she says here are a few:

Upside Up – when things are the right way up she says they are upside up
Anything – when you ask her what is in the tent (or box or any item) she says “anything” so either she is saying anything I want because I have a wonderful imagination or she is using the word anything for the word nothing
Fire, Fire – now I have an annoying habit (annoying to my DH only) of putting paper, plastic or other flammables on top of the stove (not when it is on, when it is not in use) and Jason used to just remove them, then he mentioned it to me and finally he has started saying “Fire, Fire” to get me to notice and remove them. Yesterday as we were baking cookies I put the cookie tray on the stove top and Piper yelled, “Fire, Fire” which cracked me up. Now she yells it throughout the day which is sometimes funny and sometimes not, LOL!