Heartfelt

We were making Thank You cards the other day, E and I, and she was pretending to write on a piece of paper. 

"I'm writing a thank you card to Jesus", she said. And then she told me what she wrote. It was so sweet I have to share it with you.

 

At first I was a little confused and asked her what she meant. What will work?

"Our hearts!" 

Duh!

She did and she said

H finally started crawling, but she's not a fan at all. She would much rather grab you by the hands and walk around with you. She doesn't care that it's killing your back. And neither do you since she's so cute. Well at least you don't care for the first two minutes, then your back tells you to care and you put her down and she screams. That's right. That content little baby has an opinion all of a sudden.
She realized today that she doesn't really need you to walk around. Cruising around the coffee table works too, but it's still pretty slow.

E has a few funny things she says from time to time that I don't think I've mentioned before. (Please forgive me if I have.)
In the fall she occasionally enjoys some apple Chris.
When she cooks she follows a reciPete.
Before she brushes her hair it's full of nuts.

"She said" through Facebook

I've posted a lot of fb statuses lately of all the adorable things E says and does and wanted to share them here.

• E: What's today?
  Me: It's Saturday.
  E: Saturday is candy day. I get candy after lunch.
  Me: Yes you do.
  E: Can I have breakfast AND lunch now?

• E: what are we going to cook?
  Me: We're going to cook you some soup.
  E: cook me?! But I don't want to be in a pot.

• Oh the faith of a little child: She wanted to pray that God would take my cold away and when she was done she looked at me and said "your cold is gone now Mamma". Gotta love her :)

• conclusion made by E after a life long observation of our family:
  "boys get hot coffee, girls get hot tea"

• I love listening to E as she tells me what she learned in Sunday school. Today she told me about Joseph and his special coat that got mud on it. :) And after she was done she said : Mamma, I'm glad we had this talk together.

• ‎"Everybody needs flowers."

• Me: Drop the attitude.
  E: (shook her head down) I dropped it on my foot, mamma.

• I put H down for a nap and promised E that as soon as H fell asleep we could go outside. I then got the monitor from our bedroom, unplugged it, put in batteries, turned it on and heard big sister singing "go to sleep, go to sleep" to little sister. So sweet, but it had the opposite effect.

• E's in the tub drawing a picture of our family. "That's you, mamma,
  holding H. And that's you daddy, fixing something."

• my planned lunch: one wasa cracker with hummus and one with a boiled egg and kalles kaviar. I had both spreads on the crackers and was waiting for my egg when E decided to turn my crackers into a sandwich. If you know what kalles kaviar is you know how gross that is. But what do you say when she smiles and thinks she's a great helper?

• making lemony asparagus pasta for dinner. While I was trimming the asparagus E said: "ooh, bamboo!"

• served butternut squash soup with homemade croutons and afterwards E said: "That was delicious lunch, mamma! It was so yummy!"

• Just read from the Jesus storybook Bible about Adam and Eve to E. She said: "They have to listen to Jesus and the snake has to stop eating the bananas." =)

• my oldest daughter is a sticky mess. "Mamma, I like nipple cream!"

Nice boobs!

Background info:
Every now and then when we're in the pool E wants to hold on to me and sometimes that means holding on to my bikini top. I always have to remind her not to pull on it and explain why.

Today's conversation as we're getting ready for the pool:
E: I don't wanna show my boobs.
Me: What?
E: I don't wanna show my boobs.
Me: Ok, let's put the swimsuit on then.

E: I'm hiding my boobs. You're hiding your boobs too. (pokes at them) Wow! That's pretty big boobs! I've got tiny boobs. (lifts up her top) See?

As I'm changing she walks in to the bedroom.
E: Ooh! That's nice boobs!

She said...

E wanted a snack. I asked if she wanted pears.
"Yes. They're good for you. And they're tasty too."

We were brushing our teeth this morning. Earlier she had spilled OJ on her pj shirt so she had taken it off. As she was looking at herself in the mirror she said:
"Look, mamma! I have boobs."
Me: "Well, you have nipples."
E: "No! I don't have nipples! I have boobs!"

A very sweet "She said"

I should really be in bed right now since I need all the sleep I can get but I wanted to share something here.
We had put E to bed but she wasn't asleep yet. We put up a gate by her door so she can open her door but still not get out and she was standing there calling for me, saying she was sad. I wasn't sure if she really was sad or if she just didn't want to go to bed. I was nursing H so I couldn't go check on her so I told her she still had to go to bed. She then said:
"But I'm sad. Pray and ask that I get happy?"
How sweet is that?! C went in and prayed with her and after that she went to sleep. I love her!

She said...

"I want jelly bread, please!"
It took me a while to figure out that she wanted fig newtons.

I was sitting on the couch in a nursing tank, just about to feed H.
"I open the boob door, mamma."

We went to a birthday party yesterday. I think we spent a total of 7 hours on the road. By the time we got home all of the things that were neatly packed in bags when we left were now spread all over the van. I got E out of her car seat and she started walking to the door. C and I started getting everything together when we heard a little voice calling:
"Are you coming guys?"

She said...

Here's another thing she said...
E woke up with a runny nose this morning. We were sitting in the couch, snuggling and I told her she had a cold. Her reply... "No, I don't have a cold. I have a warm."

She said...

One day, shortly after we brought baby H home, I walked into the livingroom and found E sitting on the couch with her shirt pulled up and she was smearing something all over her belly, her chest, her face... you name it. She looked up at me and said: " I like nipple cream, mamma!"

Background info for the next three:
I try to speak Swedish with E as much as I can and sometimes she looks a bit confused because she knows a word in one languages and now she hears it in another. So we started telling her that daddy says this and mamma says that. Lately she has been very interested in finding out how we both say something, which has caused some funny moments...

I was cutting up some ham and told E that daddy says ham and mamma says skinka.
E: "Daddy says ham, mamma says skinka, E says meat."

Chris was drinking tea from his travel mug.
E: "Daddy says coffee, mamma says tea."

I was making a Swedish meal for dinner, fläskpannkaka. E tried to say it. I think she wanted to figure out an easier way to say it so she looked at me and said: "What's daddy say?"

She makes me smile, she makes me laugh =)

Yesterday I was giving E a bath, but remembered that 'So You Think You Can Dance' was on and I went out to record it. E was coloring the tub walls with a bath crayon. She calls on me "Mamma, color picture truck". I went back to the bathroom and she explained to me that she had drawn a picture of a truck. I took a picture of it since and will put it on FB later. This was the first time she told me exactly what she was coloring.

We went to the post office today and she was drawing on a form there and told me again she was coloring a picture of a truck. This time she told me it was up in the sky.

We also went to the OBGYN today to make sure everything is ok before our trip. On our way there we drive over a bridge. "A boat" she calls out. "Yes", I answered. "There's a boat in the water." "Boat thirsty" she says. =)

We get to the OBGYN and I have to give a urin sample. And I have to bring E with me in to the bathroom. I try to distract her by having her look at different things while I pee in the cup, but of course she looks right at me as I pull it out. She looks at it, smiles and says "Thirsty". Yeah, pretty gross!

The doctor had a hard time finding the heartbeat so I got to do a quick ultra sound. E is sitting next to me, looking at the screen. She points to it and says "fish". How do you explain to a 2 year old that that's the baby?