Sammie-isms

Sammie is learning, changing, and growing every day it seems. There are many, many things that make Nathan and I laugh, and then there are those less than charming items that make us, well…a little crazy…

Here are some current “Sammie-isms”, I’ll let you decide if they are the laugh or cry sort of “isms”…

1) In an effort to get Sammie to learn to dress herself, Nathan has told her that her underpants go on “tag in the back”. So one day she came running out the bathroom in her underpants and Nathan thought they looked backwards and asked, “Do you have those on right?” She smiled, nodded, said “Taaaaaaaaaaaaaag in the back!” and proceeded to turn her backside to him and wiggle her toosh from side to side to show him.

2) While going through Wal-Mart one day, I was having trouble finding the socks for her and I said (out loud) “why can’t I find the socks”!?! And Sammie replied with “Because you are a bad parent”. I asked her where she had heard that and she said “at school, Logan”.

3) Sammie who has been potty trained completely for several months now with no accidents at all, suddenly had two accidents last weekend. First she sat on the living room carpet so engrossed in her cartoon that she didn’t get up to go and the second time she was sitting in Nathan’s lap (ah… the joys of fatherhood!). The next day she proceeded to cry and scream when we tried to put her on the potty, and when I asked her why she didn’t want to go on the potty she said “because I’m making my own decisions!” (greaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt idea!)

4) One morning I forgot to send Sammie’s blanket to school with her for nap time, so on the way to work (Nathan had dropped her off) I stopped in to give it to her teacher. I hadn’t dropped Brenna off yet, so I was carrying her in with me as well. When I came into Sammie’s classroom she was seated at the head of the table (all the kids were eating breakfast) and she saw me and looked around at all her friends and said “look everybody, this is my sister, Brenna”. There was something utterly dignitary about her tone and her teacher informed me that she is little miss independent lately…(really? I hadn’t noticed…)

5) I was informed that Sammie was using the phrase “kick your butt” to kids at school, when I asked her where she got it, she said “Logan”. (Not a fan of Logan really…)

6) When I asked Sammie what she wanted to be for Halloween this year she told me “Cinderella. And Brenna can be Princess Jasmine and Mommy can be Santa”. (Ummm...why does this remind me of the post-holiday Special K commercial??)

7) The other day I accidentally stepped on one of her plastic tea cups from her play set and broke it. I told her that I was sorry and she didn’t react. A few minutes later she came up to me and put her hand on my arm and said “that’s ok mommy, it was an accident, and everybody has accidents.”

8) Sammie saw a picture of me in the hospital holding Brenna after she was born and she said “remember mommy when you were sick and had to go to the doctor?” Not wanting her to associate babies with mommy being sick, I corrected her and told her that mommy went to the doctor to have Brenna when she was ready to come out of my tummy. She looked like this was such a far-fetched story, but didn’t say anything else. The next morning she saw the same picture (it is in Brenna’s room) and said “remember mommy when you had a baby in your belly and went to the doctor?” I said yes and asked her if she would like mommy to have any more babies in her belly, to which she laughed like that was the most ridiculous thing and said “NO! No more babies in your belly. Ok, well, one baby at a time.” I asked her if she would like a girl baby or a boy baby and she said (laughing) “Girl baby!!!!! Moooooooooooommmmmmmmmm, girl babies come out of your tummy and boy babies come out of daddy’s tummy!” (Silly me! If only it worked this way, right??)

9) And last but not least, further proof that she is her father’s daughter…this morning once we all piled into the van to head off to respective daycares and work, she said “how about a little muuuuuuuusic Mommy?”