random facts about my random girl

*Tonight after seeing Ruby on "Max and Ruby" do ballet, she decided to start dancing on her toes. I wish I had caught it on video: she puts her arms up like she's trying to be a ballerina (but they're in front of her chest instead of up in the air) and she walks around in circles on her tip toes.

*She ate about four handfuls of sand at various times this weekend. Every time she does it the sandbox gets closed up and she's not allowed to play in it, which she hates, but you'd think that would teach her not to do it. Nope. Next time she eats it again. She even makes a face like, "This is really nasty." Then WHY????

*Her favorite word now is, "Ow-side?" I hear it non stop if we're inside. Then she runs to the back door and says, "baa doe," which is, "back door," which means she wants to play in the back yard and not the driveway or sidewalk, where we sometimes play if it's wet in the back.

*Her second new favorite word is "Ready?" Like in, "Ready, set, GO!" Grandma taught it to her last week when she was here, and now she says it before she does just about everything..... swinging, tickling, whatever.

*The first words out of her mouth this afternoon after she woke up from her nap were, "Swing? Park?" The park is her new favorite hang out. Thankfully there's a nice one close to our house. We have to drive there, but it's only a few minutes away.

*Last week when my mom was here I did some cleaning upstairs, as I mentioned before. I confess that the vacuum hasn't yet made its way back into the closet since then, and is sitting in the hallway outside our bedroom door and not far from our little one's bedroom door. As soon as she wakes up every morning and afternoon (after her nap), she pops up, peeks out the doorway and sees the vacuum, and says, "Hi, Seer," which is her word for sweeper. Then she makes a noise which is her impersonation of a vacuum. When we go downstairs she waves and says, "Bye, Seer," just before we go down. She's terrified of the thing when it's on, but she's still so friendly to it... isn't that nice?

*Bagels are her new favorite food. Cinnamon Sugar bagels, to be exact. She's also quite fond of chicken. Her drink of choice? "Wilk." You know, the white stuff that comes from cows. She can't get enough of the stuff. I used to be able to give her water instead sometimes when she asked for more (have you seen the price of milk these days? And she goes through a gallon in just a few days), but now she complains and asks for "wilk" when I try the switch--sometimes she drinks water fine, but when she wants milk, she wants milk. Doesn't like juice either. She loves her wilk.

*Last night we found a tick stuck to her scalp after her bath while we were brushing her hair (why we didn't find it in the bathtub when washing her hair, I'm not sure--I'm just glad we found it at all). We both freaked out a little, and there was lots of crying involved (her, not us) as we tried to hold her head still. We got it off, calmed her down, read stories, and she went to sleep, but then I spent the next 30 minutes reading everything I could find online about ticks and lyme's disease--and looking at gross pictures of the same thing we'd just pulled off our daughter's head. I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow just to be safe.

*A couple of weeks ago at the park there were a ton of pine cones on the picnic table near the playground. She found them and fell in love with them, carrying them all around and making rows of them on the ground. I told her, "Those are pine cones," several times, and she'd practice saying it. Then I noticed that she started putting them up to her head like she was combing her hair. It dawned on me that she thought I said " pine comb!" Hmmmm....no wonder she has ticks on her head!!!