May 2012
2 posts
WatchVera’s Rapunzel Monologue
April 2012
7 posts
Candyland, Vera style
Tonight, we played Candyland with Vera by her rules:
- Pick a color and put your marker in the middle of the board
- Dump all of the game cards in the center of the board too.
- Take turns tossing cards at each other and being excited about what you get. (example: “Oooh, a green one! Thank you!”)
- Pretend the cards are gift cards to chick-fil-a
- Pull up one side of the board and...
“Look mom, that car has bird poop like yours!”
– Vera
March 2012
5 posts
Semantics...
Vera: PawPaw Monson is my good grandfather
Daddy: PawPaw Monson is your great grandfather
Vera: Well, who is my good grandfather?
Uh oh
Mama: Yes, and after we get back from Texas, we'll go to the mall to see the Easter Bunny
Vera: Ok, and we can get some cookies, and some boobies and some bras for my birthday
Mama: What did you say?
Vera: I need some bras for my birthday.
Mama: Vera, you don't need to worry about bras or boobies for a long time.
Vera: No, we can get some little bras
Mama: ...
“Pretty please with a sugar top on it?”
– Vera
WatchHere’s Vera riding her very first thrill ride at City Park in New Orleans. This was like a baby Tower of Terror, and she loved it. The video is hard to see, but she’s the one on the right.
February 2012
6 posts
“Here’s some tee tee for you Mr. Frog”
– Vera, to her frog potty this morning,
I don't want to jinx it, but...
Vera is potty-trained! She’s now worn panties to school and at home for almost two weeks with no accidents.
We are so proud!!
We still have to buy pull-ups for nighttime, but most of the time her pull up is dry when we get her out. Next step, crib to big girl bed. I pacing myself though. We’ll start that during spring break.
January 2012
11 posts
“I want a breast pump for my birthday, but I want a green one.”
– Vera to her Aunt Katie just now (she just saw a breast pump in action for the first time).
A delicious pair...
Tonight, due to a miscommunication, both Wes and I stopped at Albertson’s to get meat to cook for dinner, and as great minds often do, we both thought to pick up a king cake (Albertson’s does a great job). Anyway, when we got home, Vera saw them on the table and said, “Look, it’s two king cakes! That’s a pair!”
Wes and I congratulated ourselves on her large...
WatchVera has been working on her trike skills for a while, and she finally got it yesterday at Hudson’s birthday party!
Children are magical...
I’ve told Wes for years that I want to bring him to NYC and see Wicked (because I’ve seen it 3 times and love it), and he has strongly resisted. Anyway, Vera heard Defying Gravity the other day for the first time, and had wanted to listen to nothing else. We must have listened at least 30 times since Thursday. Wes asked me if I thought it was too adult to take her to see it! The things...
TMI
Vera finally pooped in the potty at school!!! Lollipops for everyone!
Don't Carpe Diem →
I love this.
Pillow Talk
Vera: Mom, I want you to get in my bed with me.
Me: Mama can't get in there baby, I'm too big.
Vera: But I really want you to. Can you grow down?
Yesterday morning, as I was rushing to and through the grocery store because I’d forgotten to get fruit for a science experiment over the weekend, Vera helped me stop to smell the roses. She gets so excited every time we leave a store, because she likes to hold the receipt and feel/watch it blow in the wind. I love that about her.
Shake Shake Shake Mrs. Donora...
We have an elderly neighbor named Donora, whom Vera likes. Tonight, while I was doing my new Just Dance workout regimen (so awesome), with Vera assisting, she requested that we do “Shake Mrs. Donora,” (Jump in the Line by Harry Belafonte) because she enjoys that song and dance (especially the shimmying). I’m still laughing about it.
December 2011
4 posts
“Can you walk Mrs. Potato Head? Be careful, or you’re gonna fall like humpty...”
– Vera, while playing with the Mrs. Potato Head she got from daycare Santa.
“Our daughter is eating frozen raw onions and bell pepper like candy.”
– Text from Wes just now.
November 2011
2 posts
Cool story, jeopardy teen!
I know it seems ridiculous to post a quick anecdote here after months of not posting, being late with the 2-year-old post, no Halloween pics, no pumpkin patch pics, etc, but this story was too cute:
Tonight, I was giving Vera the weekend preview, and I mentioned that we had her Aunt Katie’s baby shower on Sunday, and that it was a party. She started asking if Wes and Uncle Alex were going...
October 2011
4 posts
WatchVera loves to sing in the car. “Uptown Girl” is one of her funniest performances, but I’m never able to capture it because I’m driving. My mom was with us yesterday, and she captured this, which is slightly silly (she knew she was being filmed), but still funny.
WatchIt was chilly at the beach this morning, so we brought the kids to Adventure Island for some expensive fun. Thanks to Uncle Butchie, they all got to stand in the hurricane machine.
September 2011
3 posts
Potty Training Chat...
(Vera successfully tee teed and poo pood on the potty all by herself this morning. She wanted to walk around naked, so I let her. Anyway, she walked right to the potty and sat down and went! This conversation happened a few reward M&Ms later)
Mama: ok, do you want to put a pull-up on?
Vera: no, I’m still walking in my booty.
Last night, V woke up at 2:30 crying. When I went in there, she held up had hand and said, “This Mama. This!” I couldn’t see, so I grabbed it. Come to find out it was vomit. It’s really hard for me to miss school on such short notice, so Wes stayed home with her. Anyway, she seemed ok, but them got 101.3 fever tonight. We took her to urgent care and she tested positive for...
August 2011
9 posts
OMG. Vera just told me she had something “in [her] left hand.” I asked her which one was her left. She showed me, and then told me the other one was the right hand. I guess I am getting my money’s worth from her daycare!
Vera insisted in putting her PJs on all by herself tonight, and she did it right!! I’m so proud!!!!
