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Horsing Around

It was Mom Mom who first introduced the girls to "Trippity Trop," as they call it. She'd bounce them on her knee, repeating the rhyme:

This is the way the ladies ride
[lightly bouncing] Trippity trop, trippity trop
This is the way the men ride
[more roughly bouncing] Bumpity bump! Bumpity bump! Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump!

The girls love the bumpity bump part, and ever since they were little babies, they'd laugh and laugh. Having Jem on my lap, just whispering, "This is the way the ladies ride" into her ear would throw her into a fit of giggles.

My version of Trippity Trop involves lying on the floor and having them sit on my stomach. It started when Jem climbed onto me as I relaxed on the floor and started bouncing on me -- ouch. She learned how to sign "again" while playing this, and uses the sign freely.

::Buggy Tangent::
One night while we were in Maryland, K had his team over for a barbeque. One of the guys had lain down on the floor, unsuspecting like. Next thing he knew, Bug entered the room and climbed aboard, expecting Trippity Trop. We all laughed, but the poor guy was mortified.
::End Buggy Tangent::

Lately I haven't been able to do Trippity Trop so much. The girls are growing, and since they insist on riding together, it does a number on my back and stomach.

After playing several times with me, the girls apparently hadn't had enough. Bug lay down and hithered Jem to her. Jem climbed aboard and Bug went through the rhyme.

I sat watching, thinking, "How sweet is this??" When Bug finished one round, she said, "Ok now, OFF!" and bucked poor Jem sideways onto the floor. Now where did she learn that??

It's Come to a Head

The thing to do these days is call someone names, specifically names that end with "head." The type of head is usually silly and sometimes has to do with the activity the callee is engaged in.

Take for instance the other day, when K was eating cheese. Bug called him a cheesehead. How appropriate! She then tried to call me a cheesehead, but her father corrected her, telling her that I, being from Maryland, was a crabhead. She determined that Jem is a moosehead since she was born in Alaska, and she's a moosehead, too.

"You were born in Texas, though," I said, "so what does that make you?"

"A poo poo head!"

Before any fellow Texans get their panties in a bunch over this, please realize that she was calling herself this, and also that no one in this household has been planting such ideas in her mind.

Useful Phrases

The other day Bug asked me, "Mommy? Do I drive you up the wall?"

"Not right now, Bug. Who said that to you?"

"Miss D. She said I drive her up the wall." Miss D is also responsible for "You lost your mind!" She cracks me up.

Last night at dinner, Bug said, "You drive me up the wall, Momma!" She skipped a beat, then said, "Call me NUTS!" We laughed so hard I cried.

None of her teachers are copping to saying, "Call me NUTS!"

Dinner Conversation

Last night...

After demanding a chip. K handed her one while saying, "How do you ask for a chip?"
Eyeing her chip, "I already have one. I don't need to ask."

Stroking Daddy's arm while perusing the menu, "What are you having, sweetie?"

Drawing on her placemat, "Watch out fork! Watch out water!"

::tangent::
On Sunday I had asked Bug what she wanted to be when she grew up. She responded, "I want to be a mommy when I grow up." You need that for what's next.
::end tangent::

To K after he asked her what she wants to be when she grows up, "You want to be a mommy when you grow up?"

Adjectives

As Bug finishes her dinner...

Daddy: Bug, would you like some fruit?
Bug: I want pimeapple!
Daddy: ::looking in fridge:: Uh oh! I think we're out of pineapple. How about pears?
Bug: But I want pimeapple!
Mommy: There should be some pineapple in the cupboard.
Daddy: ::looking in cupboard:: Here's some, but it's not cold.
Bug: But it's sweet and juicy!
Daddy: You're right, it is sweet and juicy.

French Toast and Carrots

While on the potty this morning (yes, she did tinkle a tad):

There's a monster in here! He likes French toast... and carrots!
He's going to eat the pancakes and waffles!
We love carrots!

Skip to My Loo

Skip skip skip my loo
Skip skip skip my loo
Skip skip skip my loo
Get out of my garden

Monster in the Belly

This morning we woke up late, too late to get Bug to school in time for breakfast. No big deal, though. K helped Bug make blue pancakes ("to match my ajamas!").

::tangent::
We have a tradition in this house when we make such things as pancakes. After everyone has eaten their fill, if there is still batter left, it is all used to make a "monster" pancake. Last weekend Bug and I made K a monster peanut butter cookie, using the entire lot of batter to make one huge cookie. It's a good thing, as Martha would say.
::end tangent::

The pancake mix we used was not the regular, just-add-water variety mix that we usually use, but the whole wheat mix that requires an egg, oil and milk. This mix makes for denser, more cakey pancakes that are much more filling than the usual ones. Even still, Bug devoured her two pancakes and announced that she wanted more. K started making the monster pancake for her.

Bug: I eat the monster pancake all gone!
Mommy: I don't think you'll be able to eat the whole monster pancake, Bug. That's a lot of pancake!
Bug: But I'm a very hungry girl! I want to eat the monster pancake all gone!

She put forth the effort, eating about 3/4ths of the monster pancake.

The Princess of Overbling

Mom Mom arrived today in anticipation of the birth of Frida. She brought lots of goodies for Bug, most of them of the dress up variety. She attended to Bug as a proper Lady in Waiting, as you can see.

admiring herself in the mirror

practicing her princess wave

voguing for the camera

happy happy joy joy!

Play Doh

Bug's Play Doh birthday kit came with an extractor tool with which one can make long shapes. Last time we played, she made a family of worms. Today this happened again, but she named them. The little round pink one was [Bug], the big blue moon Daddy, the smaller yellow star Mommy, the big green star Pop Pop, a smaller and very long pink flower Mom Mom, a thicker pink flower Uncle Bill and a big red starburst Peepaw.

Mom Mom, being made from a smaller shape, was much longer and thinner than the others. What does Bug do with her as soon as we were finished making her? She wrapped her around her finger, offering her usual commentary: "I putting Mom Mom around my finger."

With Mom Mom coming in a couple weeks to help out with Bug during the February Frida Festivities, I see such an action as quite portentious.