My rant

I definitely just spent the last 45 minutes cutting, folding, and gluing this:

It's a rainbow wand from "Jake and the Never Land Pirates."  I'll be shocked if it lasts until the end of the day.  In fact, I'm pretty sure the only reason she hasn't come running in her screaming that it ripped is because her brother is napping.  Thank you, Disney Junior.

Rosie wants to play on the Disney Junior website all day, every day (we don't let her, of course).  But every time she does play on the website, she prints at least one thing.  So here is my suggestion to Disney Junior: Forget sweepstakes where you can win a toy or a DVD or anything fun like that.  I want a sweepstakes where the prize is a year's supply of paper and color ink cartridges.

Also, does the "Jake" theme song *have* to loop over and over and over again???

Just my humble thoughts.

Vivid imagination

We were driving to the dentist's office for Rosie's appointment, and we hit a little bit of traffic.  Rosie said, "Mommy, can you make the car have wings so it can fly like a plane?"  I answered, "Wouldn't that be nice?  It doesn't work that way, though."  Rosie replied, "Maybe Daddy can get some new batteries and then the car can fly."

Again, I wish.

Blame Shifting

Little brother rolled the dog food bin into the living room.  There was about a cup-full left, and Rosie dumped it all onto the floor.  When I walked into the room, I gasped and asked Rosie, "Have you lost your mind???"

She frowned and said, "No, Zacky lost his mind."

Poor Daddy

Rosie had polka dots on her shirt and polka dots on her pants, and she was blabbering about polka dots, so I said, "Rosie, YOU are a polka dot!"  She thought this was hysterical.  Her brother was wearing stripes, so she told him, "Zacky, you're a stripe!"  Her Hello Kitty stuffed animal wears a striped shirt, so Rosie then said, "Hello Kitty is a stripe!"

Rosie's father overheard this conversation, and he said, "Hey, Rosie, what am I?"

Her answer: "Oh, Daddy, you're just an old man."

Alliteration Affliction

My Rosiegirl sucks on her finger... when she's sleeping, watching t.v., or riding in the car.

One day when we were riding in the car, I noticed that she was sucking her finger again.  Since the "diaper fairies" were successful in helping with potty-training, I thought maybe I could introduce her to the idea of "finger fairies."  So I said to her, "Rosie, what do you think the finger fairies would say if they saw you sucking on your finger?"

Except I had some trouble with all the "f's" in that sentence, and I didn't end up saying "sucking."

Cold Feet

Rosie and I were sitting on the floor in her room.  She had just had a bath and put on her pajamas and was sitting in my lap while I dried her hair with a hair dryer.  I felt something on my foot, and I thought she was trying to take off my sock.  Then I felt something in my other sock too, so I looked down.  I guess her little feet were cold, because she put them in my socks!  No matter that my feet were still in them.

Little evangelist

On Sunday we were going to a social after church, and we told Rosie she could come with us for the "church party."  She was very excited to go, and she began to gather several of her treasures du jour to take with her in her tin lunchbox, which she fancies a purse.  She had some things lined up on her dresser, including a play lipstick and a little play milk carton, and she was talking to them, almost like she was giving them a pep talk.  She said to them, "Okay, Makeup.  Okay, Milk.  Are you ready for your first Church?"