She's Turning 13

She's really only turning 3.  But she acts like a teenager sometimes.

 

At dinner the other night Ken asked her a question, but he didn't quite hear her response.  So he asked her again.  She replied with Uh, like I ALREADY TOLD YOU.

 

There was also a You're killing me dad thrown out there recently.

Almost 3 Years of Gems

Below are some gems from Rowan since she's been old enough to speak such wonderful words of wisdom.  She's currently a month shy from 3 years old, so I think it's just starting to get good.

• I remember the first time she came home from school (daycare) saying something that she definitely did not learn from home.  Just walk away, Mommy.  Just walk away now.  Complete with her hand out at me like "talk to the hand."
• Shit! after dropping her toy.  She did learn that one from home, and even got the context correct.  There have been a few f-bombs and more recently, a lot of Dangits.  I'm not proud.
• I love my sister so much. She does not have a sister, nor is she going to.
• Oh, there's my kitty.  She doesn't have a cat either.
• Make me.  Said to Ken when he asked her to sit down for dinner.
• Oh, is that your cheeseburger bag Mommy?  Said to me when I was putting her into her carseat and she busted me with a fast food bag in my car.
• Holla! Also something that she learned at school.  When asked where she learned that she said, Miss Kirsten taught me to say Holla!
• I ate Miss Marcia's choc-o-laught today.  Miss Kirsten said to not say.  Hmmm, Miss Kirsten, you have some splainin' to do.
• We have a small antique step stool in our family room that we use as a side table.  Rowan knows she's not supposed to climb on it, and one day she was being particularly ornery and kept trying to climb it and jump onto the couch.  After asking her multiple times to get down I yelled "Rowan, get down now, that is not a ladder!"  Her response?  It is a ladder, Mommy.  Touche.
• In the bathroom stall of a crowded bathroom - You sitting on the big potty Mommy?  Good job Mommy.  You get an M&M, okay?  You pooping Mommy?  You got a stinky bottom?  Make sure to wipe wipe.  Let me see.  Did you go poop Mommy?
• While watching lions at the zoo tear apart a deer carcass (it's a long story).  Icky food icky food icky food icky food.  We tore out of there quickly, but probably not quickly enough.
• You are not my best friend Daddy.  This was spoken out of nowhere.  When asked who her best friend is?  Mommy.  Atta girl.
• I don't WANT to be pretty for Oscar.  This was when I was trying to brush her hair in the morning.  Apparently Oscar is a boy in her class.
• I'm going to go see the baby animals at the zoo all by myself.  And you're going to cry.  When asked how she was going to get there she said, Well I don't know.  I guess I'll drive.  I pointed out that she doesn't have a car.  I will go to the big Costco store and buy one.
• It doesn't matter what I'm drinking, even if it's coffee first thing in the morning.  Oh, you got your wine Mommy?  And often, put down your wine for a minute when she wants me to do something with her.

And some words that are all her own:

• Softing (petting)
• Suitcase (swim suit)
• Bad guys (everyone that isn't Mommy or Daddy, as in What's that bad guy doing Mommy? when a random person walks by)
• Aunt JaJaBinks (Aunt Jessica)
• Beeboos (boobies)