Rice Family

The other day J, M and I went to rent some movies from Blockbuster Video. When we pulled up to the store M saw this poster. When she saw it, she perked up and announced "Sushi Bear!" I asked her to say it again to make sure I heard her right, and she said "Sushi Bear" and pointed at the poster. I look all around and at all the posters and I inquire "what's a sushi bear?" she points again to the same poster and says "Sushi bear. Right there." I look at the poster and realize she is calling the panda from the Kung Fu Panda poster 'sushi bear'. We have not yet seen this movie, and so I it took me a minute to figure out why she was calling it a sushi bear.....it's because he is using chopsticks and holding food in them. After I figure that all out, I turn to J and say "how on earth does he know what sushi is??" (which J nor I eat.) We both sit and ponder for awhile, and J finally perks up "The raccoon movie...

So, we're planning for the holidays, of course. For Thanksgiving J, M and I are going to drive to Minnesota and stay with my mom for a couple of days, and my sister for a couple more. We plan to leave Wednesday after J gets off work and drive straight through to moms, pass out, and then get up and eat turkey dinner prepared by my wonderful sister Erin. We are all looking forward to this trip and visiting everyone, even Emily will be there! (of course, megan lives there.) On the other hand, I was saying very little about it to M because I didn't want to tell her no every day that we were not going today. As could be expected my family was not as close-lipped and every time M talked to one of them on the phone it was "are you coming to see me? Are you ready to come and play with ___" (fill in the blank with someone in Minnesota!) So now, almost every day, M says "Go see Grandma JO? Go see aunt Erin? Go see aunt Megan? See Cara & Gillian??? I ready. ...

ok. I know I need to post some pics, but I keep forgetting. Sorry. We had a fun weekend, except J is sick. Apparantly all his coworkers went through it, and now it's just his turn. It's kinda nasty though and he felt pretty awful. Fortunately he is feeling a little better today. So, lately M has been on this kick of saying "huh? what?" after I say things. or "what you say?" Even though she heard me. sometimes I repeat myself, and she will respond "oh, I see." but most the time I just say "you heard me." Well yesterday at dinner, J didn't understand something M said and so inquired "what did you say?" M tilted her head down, no smile, frowned at J with her eyes and said, very seriously, "you heard me." we couldn't help but crack up.

M has been a little bit...well...a little booger lately. I'm hoping some of it will fade before Thanksgiving, but I have my doubts. I'd rather not have to argue with her the whole time we are with our family. She is continuing changing her mind back and forth and not making one solid decision, but it's gotten worse. And mostly at breakfast/lunch/dinner time. The other morning we were eating cereal and I got her a bowl and spoon, put it in front of her, then grabbed mine. She immediately insisted that she wanted mama's spoon. I said fine and gave it to her, but about 1 minute later she wanted her spoon...too. She wants both now. I say no, momma gave you her spoon and now it's yours. She starts crying and throwing a fit. We've been doing this enough lately so I wasn't about to switch again. I told her she could eat her cereal with the spoon she has, or, if she keeps crying, she can have time out. She yells NOO! and continues crying. She gets time...

halloween was lots of fun. we went to the Family Fall Festival at Aunt N's. M had lots of fun being dressed up...as a witch! She was adorable, and I appologize, but I have no pics. I completely forgot to bring my camera. Hopefully I can steal some from Aunt N. M had a skirt with fiber optics on it that lit up different colors, and she wore glow sticks as well. She had a cute witch hat, orange tights with bats, and a black shirt that says "my magic power is being cute." She even won the costume contest and got delicious Choxie chocolates as a prize. The chocolates were really cool actually because they were little cups of chocolate, made out of chocolate, with different flavors of soft chocolate in the middle...like caramel, pistachio, milk choco...etc. CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE!! We are really enjoying them. there is only one left actually. Oh, and I finally got everything finalized on the Buick my mom sold me, so now it is officially mine, tags and title!...