Friday, September 21, 2007

Maia-isms and Sofia-ims

It occurred to me today, as it has before, that I better write down some of these funny things that the girls have said so that we can remember them later and chuckle a little. Of course, anything worth remembering will be remembered... like eagle-birdies, too hommy, hee-hees, scoosey, Enin, Hetsa, etc which have all been passed down anecdotally. Even Sofia knows how Logan said, "Excuse me" when he was little. But just in case...

We have some friends that we met through Montessori school and starting last year we carpooled with them. They were called lovingly by Maia, Tooshie, Coopoo, and Car (Patricia, Cooper and Claire, of course).

We get a lot of laughs lately about this one. Maia asks for gazert after dinner (dessert) and she shows off her gazigns (designs) that she has made with the pattern blocks.

Let's not forget Maia's way of asking for nursing, it was one of her first words... "SSSsss, SSSssss". It evolved to nuss, nuss, and then to "Peas I have nussing?" or sometimes "I want nussing now!"

First one that comes to mind for Sofia is "Gwamma Doolie", Grandma Julie.

This one is a little hard to describe. Sofia had a special word for the act of nuzzling one's head into someone's neck, usually Mommy's or Daddy's, "neeking". She would say, "I'm neeking on you".

Also worth mentioning here are Sofia's imaginary friends that she started talking about around 2ish. First there was Keytone or sometimes Keyton. I don't remember much about him, other than it was a him. Then there was Mully. Mully came around the time we moved to Thousand Oaks. Mully was always getting in trouble. Mully hit and pushed and grabbed. Mully was not very nice at all. Mully got scolded a lot. Sofia still works out her problems by play acting.

Then there's "buller in the bunsuck", "sickett", and "whackett" - don't ask, we have no idea what these meant. She said these at around age 3.

Here they are at Grandma Helen's 80th Birthday Party. They are playing with a little water fountain that pours water into a bucket until it is filled and then it spills out. All you need is a little water and a bucket and they're set for hours. Seriously.

So, do you have any kid-isms to add? I'm sure I'm forgetting some good ones, I'll just have to add them later.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Name This Bird

Well, I'm a little behind. This birdie visited our backyard back in July. It sat on top of the girls' playhouse and promptly flew off. I think this was taken through the window.
Any guesses?

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

1st Day of Montessori

Here she is, our little Kindergartener on her first day. She was so excited to go back to school, especially to be a Kindergartener. This is teacher Helen, one of her two teachers. This is Sofia from last year.