Slurpians and Insects

This is a conversation I had with Dakota the other day: Dakota: "MOOOOM!!! There's an insect in your room!" Me: "An insect? What kind of insect?" Dakota: "A SLURP-ian." Me: "Hmmm... LOL. Ok, let me go check." I walked into my room to find an earwig... but I believe she was trying to say scorpion. I am sure glad it wasn't a slurpian! :)

Halloween 2012

Halloween was great this year... the weather was fantastic, the kids looked adorable in their costumes and they had so much fun Trick-or-Treating and never complained. They were happy all day and even Ryden was a trooper. I just wanted to remember some of the funny things they said: At one door, someone handed out big gum balls... Dakota has no idea what they are. She looked at them, cocked her head and asked the guy at the door with much scrutiny, "Are these treats?" (Like, are you sure????) Oakley would have a different greeting for each door. Once, he simply said, "Hell-ooo!" He told one person, "I need one mow Trick-eh-treat." But our favorite was when the lady opened her door and he said in a sing-song voice "Trick-or-Treat" 3 times in a row and bobbed his head side to side like he was singing along with a song. At the first place we went to, when someone would offer him the bowl to pick his own treat, he'd stick is hand in, spread his fingers and shuffle them around but never actually take anything. I'm not sure if he couldn't decide what he wanted b/c there were too many choice, or if he just liked the feeling of having his hand in there but it took a couple of hours of TOT-ing before he would just take a piece of candy and put it in his bucket. The kids made quite a haul. When their buckets got full, they'd dump it in the bottom of the stroller and keep going. Oakley dropped and spilled his bucket of candy about 10 times. But that never stopped him! We went 3 different places and TOT'd for almost 4 hours total. They loved every minute.

Dakota in Disney World

She was lucky enough to get to go with her aunt again, except this time to Disneyworld. She is having a blast but I wanted to keep track of some of the cute things she is saying to me in our phone conversations.

"Mom!!! I saw Crush (from Nemo) and we get to aks him a question. And they say, 'No eating, no drinking, no flash photography (perfectly pronounced) and NO-OOO smoke-in!!'"

"We got Oakley some Tiggy ears and then I said to Melissa, 'How about we put Oaker-man on it' and so we did!!"

"Was Oakley walking around the house saying, 'Where's Dakota?' Awwwwee... he was lookin' for me."

"Dad, you know what's in my snack drawer? There's some in the bottom drawer, some in the middle drawer, and on top. And I can have some whenever I's hungry."

They had lunch with Pooh Bear:
Me "What did you eat for breakfast today? Did you eat with Pooh bear?"
D "NOPE! I just had cereal."
Me "Oh, did you have LUNCH with Pooh Bear?"
D "Yeeeeep."

And last night pretty much every time I started a sentence, she cut me off with "MOM!!!! And we did _______________" I couldn't get a word in to our conversation at all. She's sounding so grown up and boy she can talk your ear off!

Oakley's words

He didn't talk forever, and just as I predicted he suddenly started speaking full sentences and can say pretty much anything. Well, at least in his own way ;)

Some of my favorites:

Cantaloupe=Canyo
Grape=Gwape
Woody=Wew-dee
Koda=Koga
Ryden=Wydeen
Super Why=Sue-Why
Lucy=Wucy
Link=Wink
Luca=Teeka
Chocolate=Cock-ween
Milk=Nilk
Remote=Re-Note
Cookie=Tootsie
Treat=Taweet
Cake=Kek
Candy=Tandy

I will add more as I think of them.

Dakota's baby words

Dakota is too smart. She picks up on everything and she has always been good at letters and speaking. But occasionally she says something wrong and I usually think it's too cute to correct. Some of my favorites that she hasn't figured out herself yet are:

Igtar (Guitar)
Honey-birds (Humming birds)
Potaydo Soup (Tomato Soup)
Gnomeo and Julien (Gnomeo and Juliet)


(I will add to this list later)

Funny Things...

Oakley is finally learning to talk. He's caught up with lightening speed. He talks in sentences full time pretty much now. He says things all the time that we aren't expecting or didn't know he knew. And he attempts to say new things all throughout the day.

Some of my favorite things lately:

Whenever we leave and are walking thru the garage, he always says "'scuse me" as we file through.

Recently:
O: "I wanna EAT."
Me: "Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"
O: pause... "FOOD."
Me: LOL

As we were waiting in line at the bank in our car, Ryden started to cry. Oakley looks over and says, "Bunny, i's o.k." I often say "Honey-bunny" when Ryden is crying or tell him "It's okay." Dakota has started to use the same phrase. So I thought it was so cute when Oakley suddenly busted it out. It was also very sweet.

The other day we went fishing at Pineview Resevoir and had to hike down to a beachy area. After a while, Oakley couldn't resist going in the water, so we let him wade in his clothes. He started throwing mud and got it all over himself. When I helped him out of the water to move down to another area, he exclaims, "I wet! I a MESS. I eed a BAFF!" Yes, yes you do my little boy!

Whenever we are in the car, Oak feels the need to talk. So our car rides usually consist of,
"Mama? (or Daddy, or Koda or Jichan or whomever is in the car)... Whe'e awe you?" You say, "I'm right here," and he moves on to the next person. But he will ask over and over and over again.

Or he likes to tell you everything he sees which is usually one of three things:
O: "Uh, Mama?"
Me: "What, Oakley?"
O: "I 'ee a bode" (bird)
or
"I 'ee caws" (cars)
or
"I 'ee a ay-plane" (airplane)
Occasionally he throws in 'trees' or 'horse' or 'house'. But he will tell you 50 times in one short drive that he sees a bird. EVERY SINGLE BIRD that flies by his window he is sure to tell us about. :)

4th of July

We went to the fireworks in Kaysville on the 4th with Grandma and Jichan. The kids loved it. Their reactions pretty much sum up their personalities right now:

After EVERY firework Oakley exclaimed, "Whoa!"

Dakota told me, "Mom, the fireworks are like pixie dust!" She also sang the Katy Perry song, "Baby You're a Firework" that was playing on the stage. With added emphasis on "Make 'em go 'UH UH UH' as they shoot across the sky." Doug and I were cracking up when she did that. We made her sing it over and over all the way home.

Ryden was in awe of the fireworks and after the first few pops when he realized all was safe and well, he jumped up and down in my lap with excitement.

Miss Dakota

I came inside from grabbing something in the car... I'd had a show on that the kids were watching. When I came in, Dakota was pouting saying she wanted Oakley to go back to his nap so we could play again (nap time was well over). I asked if the TV show was over... and this was her response: "No, Oakley just touched the remote. AAAAND TOTALLY on purpose!!" I couldn't help but giggle. My little 4 yo is turning into such a sass!

Capiche

Driving in the car while visiting in Boise.

Me: "Dakota, we're going to go get our food and take it to Annette's house and eat it there, Capiche?"
Dakota: "Capiche!"
Me: "Oakley.... (do you want to go play at Annette's?)"
Before I can finish my sentence...
Oakley-the-kid-who-hardly-talks: "CAPICHE!"
He's smarter than he looks...

Also, at a family gathering recently... I mentioned to Oakley that we were getting ready to go. He ran to the door prematurely, turned, waved and said "See-YA!" LOL. He'd never said that before either.

More Dakota Funnies

"Mom, can Peter Pan come to our house and take me to Pirate Island? And then we can fight Captain Hook and help Jake build his own house with bunkbeds for Izzy and Jake like me and Oakley?" (Jake and the Neverland Pirates TV show)

"Mom, if you suck all my blood out, will I be smushed?" I can only assume she thinks you'll deflate like a balloon if you have no blood. Me: "Well first of all, I am not going to suck your blood." Dakota: "If a mosquito sucks out all my blood will I be smushed?"

She didn't want me to help her get the seatbelt buckled on her booster chair. "Mom I can do it myself." Click. "See, as a matter of fact, its perfect."

D: "Mom, I don't want to wear my jacket. It's warm outside."
Me: "No, its COLD. You have to wear your jacket."
D: "Why, Mom?"
Me: "Because otherwise the germs will get you and make you sick."
D: "Ooooh. Because the germs like the cold but they don't like the warm weather?"
Me: "Yes." Precisely.

Disneyland

Dakota was lucky enough to go to Disneyland over President's Day weekend this year with her aunt Melissa. Before she left, I told her I was going to really miss her. She proceeded to reassure me that everything would be fine and that I should be happy. About 2 days into her trip, we were talking on the phone and this was our conversation:

Me: "Dakota, I really really miss you."
Dakota: "Moooom.... remember what I told you? Don't miss me, just be happy. Ask the whole house, where is Dakoka? Oh! She is just on an adventure. She'll be back. Just be happy, Mom."
Me: "I am happy, but I still miss you."

I'm pretty sure she grew up while she was gone!

Potty Talk

While Dakota was sitting on the toilet doing her business, she blabbed my little ear off.

Dakota: "Mom, we don't eat boogers. We eat pizza, and sandwiches and grilled cheese sandwiches but not boogers.:
Me: "That's right." (as I chuckle)

And next came a little TMI...

Dakota: "Oh! My wet ones just cleaned off some of my poop. That was so nice of my wet ones, wasn't it?!"

LOL.

I was dying laughing by the time she was off the toilet.