So. M is adorable. I know you all know that already, but I just love her! She does funny stuff every day, and I forget what it is by the time I post. We're still trying to potty train, M is still trying. She really likes playing with this water table that Aunt Megan got her for Christmas. Every day she says "go. Side" (go outside) and "water" to play with the water table. She orders the dog around saying "sit. stay. no. dog tret. (to give the dog a treat) come on dog." etc. She tries to help whenever possible. She says "pour it. ducks. pour it." to help feed the ducks, she hands me the dishes out of the dishwasher, she sweeps in the kitchen...etc. (if only that would last.) She talks a lot, although I know for certain that the majority of the time I am the only one who understands her. The words seem obvious enough to me, but even J and Justine ask me what she is saying. "manek" is blanket. "danik" is music. Oh, and she has this song she likes. Grandma Jo gave her a CD from Alaska that has bear songs on it, which are kinda cute. The problem is M likes the first song on the CD and doesn't want to listen to different ones. When the song changes she says "one. one. mama, one." (which means she wants the other one, other song.) and gets angry if I don't switch it back. The song goes something like this: "OH, he's a mighty big bare foot bear. He's dancing everywhere. cuz bumblebees are buzzin' in his hair." or something like that. And I am absolutely sick of it!!
Ok. So, we've talked to M about strangers a bit, telling her to be safe and what not. A couple of times she brings it up when we say no she can't do something and she says "because there are stangers?" or some such. We haven't talked about it recently, but apparently the message stuck: We were at Wal-Mart, had just finised checking out and J went to use the restroom and M wanted to get a drink from the water fountain -I was still a few steps behind, so M said "Mom will you come a little bit closer?" and I said yes, and she continued "because you wouldn't want a stranger to grab me." I smiled and said "No I wouldn't like that." And she said "You would say 'oh no! someone has taken my child!" At which point I couldn't help but laugh and tell her how much I loved her.
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