28 February 2015

When I picked her up from ballet today, Madelyn very excitedly told me, "We danced to Pirates in the Care-bean today!" She later told her daddy the same thing.

27 February 2015

Involving Madelyn in "current events":

Tony, showing Madelyn the picture of "The Dress": Madelyn, what colors is this dress?
Madelyn, very confused: Umm.... it's blue.... and black.....

26 February 2015

During dinner, I was asking Madelyn if she wanted her leftovers for Lunch Bunch tomorrow even though they would be cold. That prompted me to ask her if she wants to get a thermos to keep food warm.

Me: Would you want to get a thermos for food? We could heat foods like mac and cheese in the morning and pack it in your thermos. Then, at lunch, your food would be warm.
Madelyn, holding her hands about two inches apart: I want the thermos to keep things this warm.

25 February 2015

I got fed up with the debacle that was fixing dinner tonight. It all worked out, but cooking dinner was a pretty stressful ordeal tonight. So, during dinner:

Me to Madelyn, half joking: You're fixing dinner tomorrow.
Madelyn: But you and Daddy fix dinner. I can't fix dinner.
Me: Nope, you're doing it tomorrow.
Madelyn: You're joking, right?

24 February 2015

After Tony and I were finished with dinner, I was looking at Facebook on my phone while the girls were still eating. I saw that George Takei posted a photo of a Nevada license plate that said "Kedavra". I showed Tony and he busted out laughing.

Madelyn: What's so funny?
Me: You're not going to get it. (I showed her the photo anyway.) Nevada Kedavra.
Madelyn laughed.
Tony: Trust us, you don't get it.
Madelyn: I know, but it sounds funny!

23 February 2015

Dinner tonight ended in a meltdown for Alyson and Tony taking her straight up for bed. Madelyn and I stayed downstairs for a bit as she finished up her dinner, and I cleaned up some. All Madelyn and I could hear from upstairs was constant crying with the occasional "Mommy!" thrown in.

Madelyn: Do you think Alyson is going to cry all night?
Me: No. She'll calm down. Should I go rescue your daddy?
Madelyn: Not right now. Wait until we're ready to go up there.

22 February 2015

Someone was trying to stall at bedtime as I was leaving her room:

Madelyn: Wait! I want to tell you about my day!
Me: I know about your day. I was here the whole time.
Madelyn: Oh yeah....

21 February 2015

After dinner, we played Robot Turtles. As we were setting the game up, and then pretty much throughout the game:

Madelyn: What is the Junction Frog for again?
Tony: Function Frog.

Madelyn: Ooops, I dropped my Junction Frog.
Me: Function Frog.

And, over and over again any time she mentioned something about the "Junction Frog", I mean Function Frog.

20 February 2015

It's the little things:

Me: What did you have for snack today at school?
Madelyn: We had POPCORN!!!!!

19 February 2015

We had dinner tonight from Panera. The girls had macaroni and cheese. As Madelyn was eating:

Madelyn: As I eat the cheese, the noodles are liney. 
Me: Huh?
Madelyn, pointing to a noodle: See? Under the cheese the noodles are liney.

18 February 2015

The girls and I (and Tony, too, thanks to a dead car battery) were home this morning waiting for Grandma, Grandpa, and GG to get home from a doctor's appointment. They were playing with Alyson's wooden train set. Madelyn needs to learn that you can't reason with a toddler.

Madelyn: Alyson, can I play with that car?
Alyson: No!
Madelyn: But, you've been playing with it. I want a turn.
Alyson: No!
Madelyn, while looking at us in a desperate plea for help: But Aly....
Tony: Don't look at us. You two work it out.
Madelyn: Hmph....

17 February 2015

First

This morning while getting dressed, Madelyn was singing to Alyson:

"Santa Claus is coming to town-NextYear!"

Second

While playing with our neighbor this afternoon, the girls came out of the kitchen and went through the hall to turn into the living room. As they did this, Madelyn was narrating, and our neighbor was just going along with it:

"Oh no! There's a fire wall and we can't get through! We need to dump our powers on our heads (the stuff they were carrying in purses) to get our healths back because we ran out of health and then didn't have our powers anymore!"

16 February 2015

First

Madelyn got really excited while working on her LEGO Friends light house today. She brought me the instruction book to show me something.

Madelyn: Mommy, there's a new LEGO thing called Everest!
Me, after looking at the back of the instruction book she was showing me: You mean "Elves"?

Pretty advanced for a budding reader to get "Everest" from "Elves".

Second

Madelyn got up from the dining room table where she was working on her LEGOs and walked through the living room.

Me: Are you done with your LEGOs?
Madelyn, pointing to her nose: No. I'm going to get a tissue.
Alyson: Why?
Madelyn: Because my nose is leaking, Aly.

15 February 2015

While I was saying good night to Madelyn:

Me: We get another day home tomorrow. It's supposed to snow again tomorrow night, so I'm not sure if you'll have school on Tuesday or not. It depends on how much snow.
Madelyn, sadly: I really hope I get to go to school....

14 February 2015

Madelyn finished building her Lego emergency vehicles set today. In the 10 minutes or so that she actually played with it, things got a little intense:

"There is going to be a fire emergency on top of the ambulance soon! Oh my gosh! (she put the Lego fire on top of the ambulance) There it is now! The little boy is really afraid of the fire!"

The firetruck then went to put the fire out.

13 February 2015

While over at Mom's before leaving to come home, Alyson insisted on sitting on my lap in one of the dining room chairs multiple times. After she got down once, Madelyn wanted her turn. So, she sat in my lap on one of the hard wooden chairs for at least five minutes. When she finally decided to get down, she stated, "I want to get down! My butt hurts!"

12 February 2015

As she put her cup that had had apple juice in it into the sink, Madelyn said, "That was very intense. (slight pause) What does that mean?"

11 February 2015

While I was combing her hair after bath tonight, Madelyn was asking me about the step stool in her room that a former coworker of mine painted.

Madelyn: Who painted my stool again?
Me: Someone I used to work with.
Madelyn: When will we get to see them again?
Me: I don't know. She moved to California.
Madelyn: Does she still live in California? Why hasn't the earthquake destroyed it yet?

Sorry everyone in California, but you may want to take that as a warning....

10 February 2015

While helping get the trash together to take out, Madelyn looked into an empty bathroom trashcan and called, "Hello!" I laughed at her, and she looked up at me, smiled, and asked, "What?"

09 February 2015

Random questions:

Madelyn: Mommy, what's your favorite word?
Me, after thinking a bit: Plethora.
Madelyn: Okay.... Daddy, what's your favorite word?
Tony: Defenestration.
Madelyn: Huh?
Me: Defenestration is to throw something or someone out of a window, but people usually use it to mean throwing someone out of a window.
Madelyn: I don't want to be defenestrated! That would hurt!
Me: It probably would. What is your favorite word?
Madelyn: Penelope.

08 February 2015

The Entrance Hymn this morning at Mass was "The King of Glory". The refrain is "The King of Glory comes, the nation rejoices. Open the gates before him, lift up your voices." This afternoon, Madelyn told everyone, "The song at church this morning was lift up your horses." After that, we heard her singing "lift up your horses" to herself.

07 February 2015

The random things we hear when the girls are playing. We have no idea what was going on here:

"Everybody gets a piece of cake! Nobody gets a candy snake!"

06 February 2015

During school today, they "wrote" letters to people. Madelyn wrote one that she wanted to send to our neighbor. As soon as Tony got home from work, she insisted on going to deliver it, but she was very concerned about her friend getting the letter. Multiple times she asked, "Are you sure they'll check their mailbox?"

05 February 2015

We had told Madelyn last night that we would be making personal pizzas for dinner tonight. After the girls were in bed last night, Tony and I decided that that wouldn't really be feasible with everything we needed to get done and since he would have to stop and get some dough. Instead, Tony was just going to stop and pick up pizza on the way home from work. When I picked the girls up this afternoon:

Me: Oh, Madelyn, we aren't making pizzas tonight for dinner. We won't have time to do it.
Madelyn, panicked: We're not?! But I wanted pizza!
Me: We're still having pizza.
Madelyn, confused: What? Are we going out?
Me: No. Daddy is picking up pizza on the way home.
Madelyn: Oh! Okay!

04 February 2015

Somehow during dinner conversation, the word "overflow" was used. Madelyn asked what it meant, so we were giving examples to explain it.

Me: If you were to close the drain on the bathtub and turn the water on and not stop it, the water would spill out of the bathtub. The water would overflow.
Tony: The water would flow over the top of the bathtub.
Me: But don't do that because it would make a big mess.
Tony: And you would have to clean it up.
Madelyn: If the bathtub were alive it should be the one doing the cleaning.

03 February 2015

Tony gave Madelyn a new chore to do today.

Tony: Hey, Madelyn, can you go upstairs and get your trashcan and your sister's trashcan so that I can combine all the trash to take it out?
Madelyn, excited and getting ready to run up the stairs: Yeah!!!!

02 February 2015

Every night we go through the same thing with Madelyn. She jumps and dances while on her stool brushing her teeth. We tell her to stop, but she keeps doing it. Tonight she may have finally learned her lesson.

Madelyn, bouncing and dancing on her stool while "singing" with the Disney Magic Timer app and brushing her teeth: Do do do!

Suddenly, the stool folded up on her and she started to fall off and onto the floor. She grabbed the sink to try to save herself, but fell onto the floor.

Madelyn, as she fell: I'm okay! I'm okay!

She sat on the floor, still brushing her teeth. I fixed her stool and helped her up.

Me: Now, do you see why we keep telling you to stand still on your stool?
Madelyn: Yeah!

(The whole time, Alyson was watching her like she was crazy and just kept letting Tony brush her teeth.)

01 February 2015

Before going over to play with our neighbors:

Madelyn: Since I haven't had any screen time today, I'm going to play with Mei Mei and Lina's Leap Frog when I'm over there.
Me: No, you're not. If you're going over there, you're going over to play with them.
Madelyn: Why can't I?
Me: Because you're going over there to play with them, not their stuff and ignore them.

We picked Madelyn up on our way to the women's basketball game. As she was getting into the car:

Madelyn, excitedly: Mommy, I didn't play with their Leap Frog!
Me: That's good.
Madelyn: Instead, we played with a robot dog, but it wouldn't do what we wanted it to do. We were trying to get it to pee.