This Saturday was Daddy’s birthday, so Meme and Pa were over for a visit.  We were enjoying Brandon’s traditional birthday breakfast of cinnamon pull-apart, when Aubrey Ann took a huge bite. I said, “Aubrey Ann, you should take little bites, because you have a little mouth.”  Aubrey Ann immediately looks at Daddy and says, “Daddy has a BIG MOUTH!”  Of course we all laugh, which makes her say it over and over again.  Then she proceeds to list everyone at the table and state whether they have a big or little mouth.

Ahhhh…the things they get away with when they are two, that aren’t so cute when they are five!

AA has been very interested in my cross necklace lately, and has been asking all kinds of questions about it.  For those of you who don’t know, a few years back as a surprise Brandon replaced the diamond in my engagement ring with a bigger one, and put the smaller original diamond into a cross that I wear on a necklace. We even had it engraved with the Bible verse that Brandon and I try to remember for our marriage. The necklace is very special to me.

Yesterday I was wearing the necklace and AA started asking me, “What’s this”, so I explained to her how the necklace came to be.  Then I told her that one day, when she was older and I knew she wouldn’t lose it, her Daddy would be giving that diamond to her.  She picked the cross up and looked at the diamond for a few seconds, then she responded with, “I want a PINK diamond, please.”

Oh.my.goodness.

A pink diamond?  She is not only requesting diamonds, but PINK ones now?  I knew she was girly, but I don’t think I could fathom the depths of her girlyness.

Rest assured, she will not be receiving any (real) pink diamonds from us!

It never ceases to amaze me how God creates little girls so innately girly, and little boys so innately boyish.  It is truly incredible.  I love my little girly, girl, and enjoy every tea party, every “royal ball”, toenail painting, hairbow putting in, makeup applying, and all the dresses that come with her!  I wouldn’t change her for anything in the world!

Although, I must admit, I am quite proud that my little girly girl will get out and get dirty in the mud with all the little boys.  And I know for a fact, that nobody is going to push this little girly girl around!

She is sugar and spice, and everything nice, for sure!  We wouldn’t have her any other way.

Yesterday I was doing a workout video, and AA was watching, when all of the sudden she got up and ran into the room Brandon was in and said, “Mommy doing x-rays, Mommy doing x-rays!”  Brandon had no idea what she was talking about until he walked into the living room and saw that I was exercising.

For the next half an hour Aubrey Ann ran around the room yelling “X-rays! X-rays” while karate chopping the air, and kicking her feet.  She got quite the workout.

Then she decided to sit on my chest while I did sit-ups.  Thanks, I really  needed the extra 28 lbs AA. 

I love my little ‘x-rayciser’!

Today Aubrey Ann was sitting having her lunch, and she wanted to use a ‘big girl cup’, (an open cup, not a sippy), so I obliged.

Aubrey Ann has always lover her vegetables, especially if she can dip them in something. So lo an behold, I look over and Aubrey Ann is dipping her steamed broccoli in her milk! She looks at me, takes a bite and says, “It’s ummmmy”.

A few minutes later she looks inside her glass and say, “There’s grass in my milk!”

Later that day, as I was getting ready to put Aubrey Ann to bed she looks at me and says, “Mommy, God made you special!” And I said, “He sure did, and He made you special too.” And Aubrey Ann says, “Just like Bob the mato!”

Being as special as ‘Bob the mato’ is a high compliment in these parts. I’ll take it!

Last week Aubrey Ann chose the book “The Little Engine That Could” to bring home from the library. You may remember the books famous line, “I think I can, I think I can!” Aubrey Ann loves the book.

Tonight at dinner I had steamed some baby carrots, and there was one carrot that was thicker than the rest, so it was a bit tough and rubbery on the inside. Aubrey Ann picked up the carrot and spent a minute trying to bite her way through it. After I saw that she was really struggling, I told her, “It is ok Aubrey Ann, that one just looks too tough.” She looked me right in the eyes and said, “I think I can, I think I can!”

And guess what, a few piranha bites later, she did!

Determination: This little girl has got it!

Oh the joys of entering any public place with a very conversation-wise toddler.

Aubrey Ann loves the movie, “Cinderella” and has seen it a couple of times. She loves to recap the movie a couple times per day. One of her favorite things to tell me is about the stepmother, and how she “isn’t very nice to Cinderella”.

Well, today we were in Target, in the bathroom, and there were only a couple of ladies in there besides us. Well, lo and behold one of the ladies walks out of the bathroom, and looks exactly like the wicked step-mother. She had dark black hair, with lots of gray, all pinned back. Well, I wasn’t the only one who noticed, AA did too. She promptly started calling out, “Step-muuuuthhhaaaa” “Step-muuuuthhhaaa”. I knew where this was going and immediately tried to “shush” her. This never seems to slow AA down.

So then it comes, the finger pointed straight at the lady and her sweet little toddler lips opened up and said, “She’s not very nice! She’s not very nice!”

Sigh.

My first thought was to explain things to the lady, telling her all about AA’s obsession with Cinderella, but then I realized, what am I suppose to do, tell her she looks like the wicked step-mother? Yeah, that wasn’t going to go over well.

So instead, I decided to pray that the ‘wicked step-mother’ wasn’t fluent in toddler, and that she didn’t understand what AA had said.

Needless to say, some explaining took place. I let AA know that the wicked-stepmother was just pretend, and that some people can look alike, but that doesn’t mean they are the same people.

I think I may just need to stay inside until AA is 5….or 15.