Stop, I say

As Lilly puts it: "He talks. He really talks." He has been going through a phrase of the week lately.
So, here are his current favorites (in reverse chronological order):

Dtop-pah.(Stop, the "ah: is silent)
Wahryouu? (Where are you?)
Tank-you (Thank you)

Maybe we'll get 'please' in the mix somewhere, but he loves saying stop right now...any excuse to let us know he rules the world.

Want-to-be future Mrs. Weasley

...Mommy. You want to snuggle with my friends?
...Mommy?
Ron is my friend. Ron want to dance with my heart...and my elbow.
I miss Ron.

(I finished the bedtime routines and left the room)

Mommy...spit...Mommy? (her version of psssst)
Do you think Ron miss me too?



Just thought the other men in her life might like to know of her continual fascination with fictitious male characters. Now, if only I can use Ron to help her acknowledge that her hair is red.

Rub-a- Dub Dub

What do you call an evening with 4 kids under the age of 4? 

• Party time if you are one of the kids. 
• Nomination for Sainthood for the adults watching all four kids. 

Thanks Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Aaron, Rocco and Caz! 

Some Changes

Hey all-
I have been going through my YouTube account and cleaning it up. I am removing all the videos of Lilly, starting with the ones that have copyrighted music on them. While the copyright owners have not complained, it puts me in better standing with YouTube should I find someone is doing the same with my videos. 

The posts linking to them on the blog will stay, but the videos will not. (YouTube analytics allowed me to see no one watches them anymore anyway, it's not your kid so why would you?)

Food Bribery

Oh the joys of a 3 year old. Any other parents have a hard time getting them to eat anything the rest of the family is eating? We have this dish we love. We throw one of those Hillshire Farms style sausages into the rice cooker, cut into little bits, and just cook it up with the rice. Lilly proclaimed from day one that she did not like it, even though she had never had it.

So it became a battle to convince her to eat it.
Please eat it Lilly.
       Please?
You might like it
if you just tried it.
                       Oh I wish you would.

Try it, 
      oh I wish you would.
I think you will find 
          that it is good.

Would you eat it now it's ...
                      blue?

Would you eat it 
           with a shoe?

Would could you
          with a sock?

Would could you
          with this rock?

Try it, try it 
            and you may,

Try it and you may, 
                       I say.

Try the sausage and blue rice,

We think you'll find it's very nice.

Would you eat it
on this chair?

Would you eat it
                with this pear?

Would you could you 
             with the plane?

Would you could you 
              with Bruce Wayne?

You can watch a video 

                on my phone,

                                         Just please don't yell

                                                  "Leave me ALONE!"

Try the sausage and blue rice,

We think you'll find it's very nice!

She likes it now and 
                     you will too,

                                  But, she still insists 
it must be blue...