Recent Daniel Quotes

'Maebe is my favorite puppy. And she is great at jumping on the couch like me!'

Daddy: 'Daniel, go find your Crocs'
Daniel: 'I have to go back to my wolf family first'

Seriously, where does he come up with this stuff?? Hilarious, really.

Spiderman, Spiderman

Daniel talks in his sleep. Often!
Eric likes to have conversations with him - it amuses him greatly. I'm too afraid Daniel will wake up!

Anyway...this morning he was talking in his sleep, mumbling mostly, but soon he is adamant about wanting to ride his Spiderman bike.

'I want my Spiderman bike! I want to ride my Spiderman bike!'

About 10 minutes later he is actually awake and runs into the 'big room' and is looking for his bike.

'Mom, where is my Spiderman bike?'

He does NOT have a Spiderman bike. He doesn't even have a bike!
A tricycle, though. Does that count?

It is tough to calm down a 2-yr old who has just woken up expecting to ride a Spiderman bike, when there is no Spiderman bike to ride.

This is one time I can TOTALLY appreciate his trauma.

Two nights ago I dreamt that I woke up and my dishes were done. When I woke up, fully expecting my dishes to be done, and they were not - Oh Man! I was MAD!

Perhaps it is genetic!

When I Grow Up

Yesterday in the car Emily asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I responded with 'A Mommy!'

That was not a sufficient answer for her, so she asked me again.
I said I want to be a writer. An Author.
I asked what she wanted to be and she said she wanted to be an illustrator.

Daniel pipes up 'I want to be an elephant!'

That's my boy! =)

Funnies from Today

It has been WINDY here. Crazy windy last night.
This morning Eric asked Daniel if he heard the wind last night and Daniel's response was 'it woked up my ears!'

Tonight at dinner I commented on how popular the chicken was - everyone was taking seconds!
Emily exclaims 'I'm just a chicken eating machine'
Without missing a beat, Daniel shouts 'I'm just a Root Beer Vacuum Cleaner'

They crack us up!

Toilet 'Training'

Daniel has finally taken an interest in potty training. I think in part because of his age and in part because I started bribing him with chocolate. (Note to all other pre-potty training mommies out there - no chocolate after 4pm!)
We have accumulated 3 different potty seats that go on a regular toliet over the years in addition to a potty chair that is more his size. He requested the potty chair - which has been packed up still since our last move (7 months ago)!
We took it out of the garage, removed it from the plastic bag it was in, clorox wiped it down, and put it in the master bathroom.
He was stripped down to nothing before I could stop him - trying to explain that not ALL of the clothes have to come off is pointless at this time, as many of you may have also experienced!

So I gave him a board book - easily sanitizable, right? - and stepped into the bedroom to sort laundry. DO NOT LEAVE A TODDLER UNATTENDED ON A POTTY SEAT! They will not stay there. Duh! I could have told me that!
Next thing I know I am hearing a strange thumping noise that I just can't place. So I call out and ask Daniel what he is doing. 'Going Potty' he responds.

Obviously there is more than potty-ing going on in there, so I round the corner and see that he has chosen one of the toilet-top potty seats and is up there rapidly unrolling the toilet paper off of the roll - hence the thumping sound.
'STOP!!' I holler. He has already half filled the toilet with paper and the remainder of the roll is in a pile next to the toilet.

Mommy: 'Daniel, that is NOT what you do with the toilet paper!'
Daniel: 'But toilet paper is for the toilet'

ARGHH! How do you respond to such logic? It is more than I can deal with this early on the morning! Especially since I am trying to stop drinking coffee. Maybe I'll conquer my caffeine addiction after Daniel conquers the potty!