Funny Stuff and Other Stuff

Weeks of no posts, and now two in one day.

Neely says lots of funny things lately.  One she said constantly for a couple of weeks was "Sooooo....you don' know how take care of a baby this year?"  None of us really knew what she was talking about or where it came from, but it made us laugh and she'd smile proudly.

She's also newly into Diego and Dora, and since starting to love them, she's almost always a cat, meowing at us to communicate half the time.  She also tells me she's "scared of swiper".  She's totally faking, but it reminded me of how Cason really was scared of him around that age.  He wouldn't go down the hall alone because he thought Swiper the fox was down there.  Ha.

Neely likes to do me favors, like bring me things and when I thank her she says "NOOOOO pwobwem mama!"  So cute. 

When she's mad she tells us to go to our rooms.  One day recently I changed her diaper and asked her "Don't you want to try going on the big girl potty?"  She frowned at me and said "Go to your room."  Haha.  Paige was already potty trained by now, and I thought Neely would be easy because she hates to be dirty.  She brings me a diaper and asks me to change her the second she goes.  But she seems nervous about using the toilet, so far.  We'll see.

Paige has had a rough time lately.  It makes sense, she's oldest and understands more about the move.  She's always been VERY stubborn and strong willed.  I don't like to use the term "strong willed" because I started reading that book once and stopped early on.  I didn't like it for a lot of reasons, and one of the main ones was I realized they weren't necessarily talking about a strong willed child, they were talking about a child who wants to fight their parents on everything.  That isn't Paige at all.  She's sweet and loving and joyful, and likes to please actually.  But when she DOES disagree, look out.  She will NOT give in.  Lately, it was extra rough.  I can tell it's all the changes, which makes me want to try to be sympathetic and encouraging, but the way she was acting out made that VERY hard.  She was basically having tantrums again, like she was 3, but also 14.  Ha.  She told me one day that she's having a terrible childhood.  I had to laugh at that one.  The last week has been better though.  Maybe having family visit rejuvenated her or something.

Thankfully Cason and Neely have been easy during all this.  Except that Cason always wants to protect Paige from any discipline.  If she's not allowed to have something because of how she's acted, he'll tell us he won't have it unless Paige can too.  Little nerd. 

He made us laugh the other night.  It was Sunday, and we were on the couch.  I told Jess "I don't want you to work tomorrow."  He goes "I know, I'm so mad about it."  Cason was on his lap playing with his phone, and without even looking up he goes "I'm not mad about anything.  I'm just mad about mosquitoes.  I think they eat rolly pollies."  Ha.  We were cracking up.  Little weirdo.