Sunny 9 for 2007 February 1

The other day while on a walk in our neighborhood, a black poodle came walking up beside us. Lily loves doggies and was very happy to see the dog, but when I crossed the street Lily looked up at me and said, "uh spankings". I was a little confused and wondered why she was telling me spankings, so I said "what do you mean spankings?" She said, "Doggie es spankings." She said it like that too, like she was speaking Spanish. I swear she always says "es un..." or "es en..."I guess they are just her filler words I suppose. I had to laugh though because what she was telling me was that the dog was going to get a spanking because the dog followed us into the street, and she knows the rule: If you go into the street without mama or papa, you get a spanking. Therefore, the doggie broke the rule and was going to get spanked.

Sometimes when we are driving she will just randomly say, "'member ah rule? Street? Es spankings?" and then she will say "'member ah deer?" because every time she says remember, she remembers the first time I asked her if she remembered something which was when we were reading a book and there was a deer in it and I asked her if she remembered the time when we were on a walk and we saw a deer. So that is why she says "'member ah deer?"

Also, on the same walk as the doggie incident she started to tell me when we were passing stop signs. I remembered a week earlier I told her about stop signs but since we were moving and I didn't really stop and show it to her, I just said look there's a stop sign, and I didn't think she really understood what they were. But that day she all the sudden was interested in them and kept telling me where they were and she said they were red and white, so she surprised me that she remembered because I didn't even think she was listening.

On Sunday we went to mom's house to celebrate Joe's birthday, and on the way we were telling Lily it was Joe's birthday. She said "yay, birthday cake". Aaron and I told her she could have birthday cake, but that we had to eat dinner first. She said, "uh want it dinner, no" and then she does this thing with her hand that looks like a rapper flashing gang signs. That is her way of saying I don't want it. Sounds a lot like I want it, so we have been trying to teach her I don't want it. She has used it a couple times. Lily loves birthdays though. She loves to sing happy birthday and eat birthday cake.

The battle of pulling out her hair and chewing on it is still a losing one. This morning I came in and she showed me the ball of hair in her mouth. She said, "look mama, no pulling hair” and showed me her hair. Nice. If you run your hand from forehead to crown you can feel all these little spiky hairs. Pretty sad. I really want to take her to get her hair cut this weekend. We have been meaning to and hopefully once it is shorter she won't want to pull on it as much.