Christmas Carols a la Rosie

Rosie innocently sings her own versions of popular Christmas songs:

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.  Know what's fun?  It is to ride..."

"Shrek the halls with boughs of holly..."

And my personal favorite, a verse of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas":
"Oh, bring us some piggy pudding..."

WELL then!

This morning I dressed Zack, then I dressed Rosie, and then I (still in my pajamas) sat on my bed to fold some laundry.  Rosie lay on the bed watching me, and after a time she said to me with no particular expression, "Mommy, you need to take a shower; you're dirty."

No joke, she said this

It was time to make cookies, and Rosie wanted to help.  Whenever she helps in the kitchen, she always needs to stand on "her" stepstool, which she likes to drag all over the kitchen to reach whatever she "needs" at the time, scissors lately.  Today, though, she had a problem.

Rosie: "Ri, I need you to get my stool."
Maria: "Where is it?"
Rosie: "Up there [indicates the stool now hanging up high on two hooks attached to the cabinet].  Daddy put it up there so I can't get it."
Maria: "That's a smart Daddy."
Rosie: "Yeah, he's smarter than I thought."

And now, Zacky said!

Rosie was dawdling about putting her things away, so I started to count to her, "One....."  Zack immediately followed up with, "Two, three!"

More blame shifting

Rosie colored the face of her Mr. Incredible doll.  When I saw, I told her to go show her father, who asked her what happened.

Her response: "I don't know!  Someone must have markered him!"

Tech support

Rosie was playing with her grandfather's iPad.  She managed to get into the stage where you can move the apps around on the screen.  When this happens, the icons of the apps "wiggle."  Rosie didn't know how to undo this, so she called for her grandfather, saying, "Pop, we have a situation here!"

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.