Running List

Here are excerpts from a running list that I have of Maia's funny stories.

04/13/2010 (23 months)

This morning Maia was in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready for the day. I saw a penny on the floor and showed it to Maia. She picked it up and said, “Grandma’s money.” (She usually finds coins in Grandma’s bathroom and puts them in her pocket.) I told her that yes, it was most likely Grandma’s money so we’d have to give it back. She looked at the penny, then pointed to the picture of Abraham Lincoln and said, “Jesus!”

Also this morning, Maia was in the tub playing with a squirting toy fish. She wanted to fill it with water so she put it under water and squeezed the fish. A bunch of air came out and made a raspberry noise. To the reaction Maia said, “fishy toot!”

04/08/2010

Last night I was getting Maia ready for bed. I opened up her pajama drawer and she wanted to pick out her jammies. So at first she saw the jammies with cars on them and said, “Cars!” I started grabbing the car jammies when she saw the popsicle jammies and she said, “No! Pocko-hocko.”

03/13/2010

Today Maia wasn’t feeling the greatest. She had been sneezing all day with a cold. In the afternoon, the Porter’s threw us a good-bye picnic at the park. We were on our way to the park and Maia was in her car seat. She suddenly sneezed and tooted at the same time to which she commented, “Bless you toot!”

Later tonight I was putting Maia to sleep. Sometimes I will tell her all the people that are going to ‘nigh-night’ so she knows that it’s time for everyone to go to bed. Tonight she started with “nigh-night Gramma” and then I named off some people. “Nigh-night Amy. Nigh-night Chris. Nigh-night Autumn. Nigh-night Lyla.” I continued naming off all the cousins and aunts and uncles. Maia then chimes in, “Nigh-night ten.” I don’t understand and so I say, “nigh-night ten?” To which Maia continues and says, “nigh-night seven.” Can you tell we’ve been counting a lot lately?

03/02/2010 (Maia 21 months)

Maia’s first prayer that I could actually understand what she was saying:

Hey Fadder,

Bath,

Maia bath,

Maia Gramma bath,

Amen.

Then she wanted to pray again:

Hey Fadder,

Amy,

Amy bath,

Amen.

She loves her bath and she loves to bathe in Grandma’s bathtub.