01/19/10 - Mwende told me she needed a bandaid for her latest "hurt". I told her that I needed to see red blood before she gets a bandaid and that I don't see any. She proceeded to ask me "see blue blood?". Me, "no." "See orange blood?" "no" "See green blood?" "no". Apparently she ran out of colors then because she started giggling and said "okay!" and was on to the next thing.
01/24/10 - New twist on the rainbow colored blood theme. Mwende asked for a bandaid, I told her I didn't see any red blood, nor did I see any orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black or gray blood. I saw her little mind working and she came out with "see any applejuice blood?"
02/07/10 - "Go football" (While watching the Superbowl with us.)
02/16/10 - Mwende runs around the corner declaring, "Mama! The dinosaurs are coming!!". Patrick, the dog & I are then instructed to check every room in the apartment carefully for hiding dinosaurs until she declares they're in the living room & huddles against first me & then Patrick declaring that she is scared. Fortunately Patrick was successfully able to scare the dinosaurs away.
02/27/10 - So Mwende comes up to me & hands me something imaginary. She doesn't say anything, but I assume it is tea or cookies since she was just running around saying "tea time!". So, I pretend to eat it. She looks at me with this incredulous look on her face & asks "Mama, you ate my lizard?!" Oops! So I tell her, "Nooo! I was just kissing him". That will teach me to make assumptions with imaginary play!
03/04/10 - Just told Mwende that we have a birthday party to attend tomorrow. She says "Yay! That's so YUMMY!".
03/13/10 - "Look at me Mom! I'm a princess!"
03/19/10 - "I'm shaking my booty Mom!"
03/20/10 - "I'm going to ride an etephant later, Daddy!"
04/02/10 - (After requesting a knife and being told that we don't give knives to kids.) Mwende - "I'm not a kid, I'm Mwende!", Patrick - "You know those two things are not mutually exclusive.", Mwende - "Okay. I want cake."
04/03/10 - Patrick is shaving his head and Mwende walks in, looks at him and says "You're a man now, Daddy?". Then she comes out and sits with me. When Patrick is finished he comes out and Mwende looks at him and says "NOW you look like a man!".
04/05/10 - So I take Mwende to go to the potty and there is a mosquito hawk in the bathroom. She squeals and says "Put bug away Mommy!". So I catch it and release it outside. When I come back she asks "Did bug fly away?". I tell her yes and she bursts into tears and cries "I WANT MY BUG BACK!!"
04/06/10 - "I want to eat a scary egg, Mom."
04/08/10 - "I'm not silly, I'm a cookie monster! Arrrr!"
04/09/10 - Told me "I want to be a mama like you!".
04/12/10 - "I'm dangerous! That's right."
04/15/10 - I ask Mwende why she is crying. She says "I want to cry! Waaaahhh!!"
04/15/10 - I ask Mwende to please stop fussing. She says, "I DO want to fuss!"
04/22/10 - Mwende gasps and starts yelling "No spanking Mama! No spanking Mama!" Sure enough, chili all over the floor.
04/25/10 - Mwende is "doing" my hair. She says "There!" and I ask her if I look beautiful. She says "Not yet!"
05/07/10 - Mwende teaches Mwelu how to growl and says "Look Mama! Mwelu is a little dinosaur!"
05/12/10 - I close the door to Mwende's room for her nap. She protests saying, "Open! Open! Open!" When that doesn't work she starts shouting "Abre! Abre! Abre!" (For context, see Dora the Explorer)
05/16/10 - Mwende refuses to take her tutu off (including sleeping in it) and says "Mama, I'm a princess!"
05/27/10 - Mwende tries to convince me to leave the room so that she can play in Simba's water bowl. She comes running up to me. "Go away Mommy! Go watch tv!" I tell her, "I'm not going away so that you can be naughty." She decides to risk it and I tell her "Stay away from Simba's water!" She says, "Don't watch me, Mama!"
06/01/10 - Mwende brings a "boo boo" on her leg to my attention. So I kiss her boo boo. She squeals "NO KISS!!" and grabs a wipe and starts scrubbing my kiss off her leg.
06/05/10 - "You know your problem, Mama?" "No, what's my problem?" "What's your problem, Mama?"
06/07/10 - "I want balloons. That would make me happy."
06/21/10 - Mwende negotiates nap time with me by saying that she's willing to take a nap as long as I let her take a balloon she just popped in with her so she can eat it.
06/21/10 - Mwende falls off her chair and says "I'm okay! I didn't bump my head open, Mama!"
06/25/10 - Mwende trying to convince me that the word "wipes" starts with "M". I asked her if wipes starts with the "mmm" sound. She says "yes!". I tell her "okay, say it." So she says "Mmm, wipes."
06/28/10 - "I'm not talking to you Mama, I'm talking to Mwende."
06/29/10 - When Patrick gets home, the first thing Mwende says is "Where are we going Daddy? Swimming?" He says "Nooo..." I told her no too, so she said, "That's okay, I'll go swimming by myself." So she puts on her bathing suit and gets her kickboard and starts doing her kicks on the living room floor.
06/29/10 - "I want my baby teeth to fall out Mama!"
06/30/10 - "When I'm super big like you Mama, I can drive then, right?"
07/03/10 - I have a migraine and Mwende brushes my hair to make me feel better.
07/07/10 - I'm rearranging the living room and there is stuff everywhere. Mwende looks around and says "Oh no! There's no room for me to run!"
07/08/10 - Mwende puts on my Boba carrier and says "I want to carry YOU, Mama!"
07/09/10 - Mwende trying to get out of naptime by telling me "I have a REALLY BIG problem, Mama!" I asked her what the problem was and she says that she needs to vacuum with me.
07/10/10 - I spill spaghetti noodles all over the kitchen floor and ask Mwende to bring me the broom. She comes in and says, "You made a mess!" I say, "Yes, I did. Am I in trouble?" She says "Yes, you made me mad!" and starts sweeping up.
07/16/10 - "Is Jesus here with me, Mama?" (her first question to me when she woke up)
07/30/10 - "When I grow up, I'm going to put on my wings and fly far far away to Aunt Kelly's house to find Simba."
08/04/10 - Told Mwende that she's beautiful. Her response: "Yes I am."
08/06/10 - Mwende asked me to color with her. I told her I was too sick to color. She tells me, "Don't give up! Keep trying!" (for context see Yo Gabba Gabba)
08/08/10 - Mwende on bedtime, "I do want to go to sleep! But I just can't."
08/13/10 - Told Mwende to get down off the dresser before she falls and busts her head open. She tells me, "Its okay, Jesus will fix me... with tape."
08/13/10 - Mwende cuts her own hair.
08/17/10 - "Mama, I need a little spanking."
08/20/10 - Mwende cleans the living room while singing the clean up song. When she's done she starts running in circles and says "Yay! Now I have room to run and play!"
08/29/10 - Mwende points to Patrick and says "That's my prince when I grow up."
08/29/10 - Mwende opens the back door and sits on her giant stuffed butterfly in order to fly to her Aunt Kelly's house.
08/31/10 - Mwende gets on her bike in order to ride to heaven.
09/04/10 - 2nd night of the girls sharing a room. Whenever Mwelu starts to cry, Mwende immediately shouts "AAAAAHHH!" Mwelu stops for a moment. She starts to cry again, Mwende shouts again. This goes on for a couple of minutes before they both just stop and go to sleep.
09/09/10 - Mwende is running around with mesh over her head saying "I'm married! I'm married!" I asked her who her husband is. She says, "I can't remember."
09/18/10 - Mwende: "Today is my birthday, today is my birthday, today is my birthday..."; Me: "How old are you?"; Mwende: "Big!"
09/21/10 - Me: "I love Mwende."; Mwende: "Why?"; Me: "Cause you're my girl."; Mwende: "Oh. I love you 'cause you're my man."
09/28/10 - Mwende: "Mama, I need to take a bath.", Me: "No you don't. You already took one today and you're not dirty." (Mwende disappears for a few moments and comes back completely covered in sunscreen.) Mwende: "NOW, do I need to take a bath?" Me:
09/29/10 - Mwende sneaks a permanent marker into her room for her nap and marks on every surface in her room.
10/03/10 - We're walking to the laundromat in the dark and Mwende sees a lady coming down the sidewalk toward us and says "Oh no! Look Mama! Its a monster!" I had to explain to Mwende that no, that's a lady, not a monster. Fortunately the lady was really nice.
10/13/10 - I finally give in to Mwende's please for soda when then soda machine gave me an extra can of Sprite. She was sooo excited, hugging it all the way home from the laundromat, talking about how much she loves soda. I give it to her at home and she says, "Oh no, Mama! It spit at me! I don't like soda, its trying to hurt me."
10/14/10 - Patrick answers the door to a solicitor and Mwende and Mwelu go running/crawling out the door. Patrick asks Mwende where they're going and she says "We're going to our own home, Daddy!"
10/18/10 - Mwende after she had run into a table, "I hurt myself, but I still love me!"
10/19/10 - Mwende finds a coin on the floor and goes running out the door saying that she needs to go buy us milk and food.
10/27/10 - Mwende wants to know where the wind comes from. (we check out a book at the library to find out)
10/27/10 - Yelled at Mwende "You know better!" after she dunked her bath towel in the bath tub. She looks at me and very matter a factly says "Yeah I do."
11/01/10 - Mwende takes her baby doll, a My Little Pony, 2 plastic lizards and a mini skateboard to bed with her.
11/09/10 - Me: "I need a nap.", Mwende: "You can't take a nap 'cause we need to play with you!"
12/01/10 - Mwende is grounded to her room for the night. She is trying to get my attention from the other side of the door and I tell her that part of being grounded is that she doesn't get to talk to me. So she says "If you won't talk to me, then you go to time out in YOUR room!!! Go to your room now, Mommy!"
12/03/10 - Mwende on sharing with Mwelu: "Mama, there's 1-2-3-4 for Mwelu and there's 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17 for me!"
12/13/10 - "Mwelu! No swiping!" (For context, please see Dora the Explorer)
12/18/10 - Mwende is brushing my hair and putting barrettes in it. She tells me that she's making me pretty for Daddy.
12/18/10 - Mwende informs me that I am a "stinky-head". I asked her where she heard that word. She says TV. So I tell her that she's grounded from TV for 4 weeks. (This one day before we leave for a 4 week trip to Kenya)
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