Wordless Wednesday - Cheesy Grins

Ali is now at that age where she will smile on command (fakely, of course - and yes, that's another one of my made up words). But it is just too cute, fake or not. Here she is showing off her new dress before church:
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Ali the Tattletale?

Ali is getting to a really fun age where she will tell me things that happened when I wasn't around.

Now there is no guarantee to the accuracy of these tales, because she is obviously too young to understand lying, and too inexperienced at sentence structure to differentiate between imaginings and actual events.

However, sometimes you've got to wonder where she comes up with stuff if, in fact, it isn't the truth.

For instance.

We were driving today, and I almost missed my turn. So I slowed down rather quickly, and then did a rather sharp turn as well. To make it more fun for Ali, I said, "WHEEEEE!!"

Ali replies enthusiastically, "Pop Races!! Pop RACES!!" POP races!!!"

So Dad, I have to ask - do you tell Ali you're racing while driving around sharp turns? I mean, it's not that I would mind, or be surprised, seeing as you did plenty of that (safely) while I was growing up. But if this isn't something y'all have taught Ali, then she is QUITE perceptive.

:)

Wordless Wednesday - Sam's Trip

I'll push the down-low stuff if you'll push the up-high stuff, okay, Mommy?
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Snippets of Life

Yes, it is the terrible truth: Ali is already on book 7 of Harry Potter:
Here are a few more pictures of the Sunday School party at the Burchfield's a couple of weeks ago. The little girls had SO much fun together!
Ali and AJ:
Ali found this teeny tiny hairbrush and was fervently brushing her hair with it:

Dancin' To the ABC's

I kept AJ the other day, and this is just some of the fun that Ali and AJ have together. It is so much fun to watch them play with each other!!!

Finally: A Sweet Mispronunciation!!

Another post from August that never made it past the drawing board. I remembered it today while we were driving in the rain and having this conversation again.

So I was whining last week about all of Ali's crude mispronunciations, but this week she has had a great one.

It's been raining pretty steadily here, and so when we've been in the car and Ali has asked me for crackers, juice, glasses, guitar, cell phone, books, and other various toys, I have been trying to explain to her that it is raining, so Mommy needs to be careful.

She accepts my explanation, and then repeats to herself, "Mommy Prayerful. Mommy Prayerful."

Every time she says this, it reminds me to pray - there's not a better way to be careful!!

ANOTHER Post About Sleepwalking

This post is another one that just somehow never made it to publishing. I thought I'd go ahead and put it up on B-Sides.

The other night, or more accurately, early morning, I was awakened by the cat meowing. She goes through phases of doing this (especially after we've been gone for a while), and I always try to stop it as soon as possible so that she doesn't wake Ali. When she's feeling REALLY obnoxious, she sits right outside of Ali's door and meows.

So I headed down the hall to try and find her, my eyes not really adjusted to the darkness, but was unable to locate her. She must be downstairs. So I headed back to bed.

I get in bed, and Chris asks me in a sleepy but knowing and suspicious voice, "where have you been?". I immediately realize that he thinks I've been sleepwalking again.

I tell him "The cat was meowing. I went to find her, but apparently she was downstairs". I was very aware that I was awake, and slightly annoyed that he thought that I wasn't. But with my track record, I knew I had no chance of convincing him that I was indeed awake, so I just let it go.

I rolled over, just hoping that the cat would meow again in the split second that it would take him to fall asleep again so that he would believe me, and thank goodness, she came to my defense and meowed. I wasn't sure if he heard it or not.

The next morning, Chris brought it up and said "I thought for sure you were sleepwalking last night. When you told me the cat was meowing, I thought to myself, 'I didn't hear no cat!!', but then the cat meowed again and I realized you were right."

Vindicated!!!

p.s. - Jennifer, regarding your suggestion on my last post about sleepwalking: I'm not so sure that there IS a cure for it, other than giving me some sort of heavy nasty medication, which I'm not too sure is worth it. I usually go through "seasons" of sleepwalking, and even though this season has been obviously more dangerous than ever before, I'm going to stick it out a bit longer and see if it will pass.

I think that the cause of this season is having a fully toddling toddler that I have to be nervous about, just like the last one was having a newborn that I was nervous about. Hopefully when I get "used" to having a toddler who can get into nearly anything, it will pass.