Wednesday, February 22, 2012

From the mouth of a babe...

Madi has been coming up with some of the funniest things and some things that have been making me crazy.  A couple weeks ago on our way home from church we had a conversation that went about like this...
Madi: Jesus is my father.
Me: Jesus is your brother, Heavenly Father is your father.
Madi: Jesus is Easton?
Another conversation we have almost every day is in regards to my aching butt and leg. 
Madi: You're leg hurt, mama?
Me: Yea.
Madi: You're bum hurt, mama?
Me: Yea.
Madi: Oh dawn it. (I can't help but love the way she says it.  Her tone is so sincere!)
One of the things I love about Madi that also makes me a little bit crazy sometimes is her bravery and her independence.  She has a whole lotta both!  We read a little bit in a parenting book about dealing with temper tantrums and minding and so on.  The book gave the following scenario...
You're at the mall and your toddler wants a happy meal.  You say no and a she has a melt down.  The advice, turn and walk away.  The theory, your kid forgets about the happy meal and is now just concerned about where her mom has gone or is going.
My reality...
We went to the mall with our good friends, Chani, Guire and Nash so Chani and I could get out and the kids could play a little.  After an hour or so we went to the food court to get a couple drinks and feed them some snacks we had brought.  Half way through, Madi wanders off.  I turn to see what she is doing and she had gone to sit with a family a few tables over that had three girls, the middle one about her age.  I ask her to come here.  She leaves her cookie at their table and comes over.  I told her she needs to stay with me and to get her cookie and come back.  She heads over and plops down in her chair and starts chatting.  Seriously kid???
On our way out of the mall the kids played on the rides.  Madi LOVES them and wants to play on them every time we are at the mall.  The kids played for a 15 or 20 minutes and then we told them it was time to go.  Of course they weren't ready.  We told them good bye and started out.  We hid around the corner, watching as Guire ran, crying, to Chantel.  When we opened the door to get Guire, Madi poked her head out of the bus, smiled, waved and said "Bye, mama!"
Another funny... Madi loves the movie "Dolphin and a Tail"  (Dolphin Tale) and her "murf moobie" (Smurf's) :D!

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