My Smart Girl!

Hip-hip-hooray *and a heel click*! I met our new neighbors today. Let me tell you, I have been praying for a nice military family with kids to move in next door. Let's just say...they aren't just military, they are Navy....she's a stay at home Mom and they have a 5 year old daughter, 2 1/2 year old son (see the trend) and a 3 month old daughter. I fore warned her to let us know if during nap time she finds Max's saw to be too much noise pollution. Her husband quickly informed me that the sound of power tools is music rather then noise pollution. Sounds like another wife might loose her husband to Sears, Home Depot, Lowes, Harbor Freight, Rockler, Woodcraft a garage. Sad story I tell ya. I'll have to give her the tip that dinner is not served at the work bench. He'll get hungry sooner or later.



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"Mom, I'm a bit peckish."

"A bit what?"

"peckish, you know... hungry!"

"Kalee, peckish is not a word. Why do you keep saying that? Say hungry!"



Now I must admit...I Googled it. Because we homeschool I look up everything from birds to bees (no I didn't say "and the") and what squirrel skat looks like. My life line is Google! Lets just say this is what I found upon my search of the word "peckish":


peckish (colloquial)
mildly hungry
irritable; crotchety

What? Crotchety? Didn't know that was a word. :) This couldn't be possible. So I kept searching...

peck·ish adj.
Ill-tempered; irritable.
Chiefly British Somewhat hungry.

Holy cow! My child just taught me a word! Then I had to ask...

"Babie where did you learn that word?"

"From Ned and Ted. They are Ants that walk and talk like us....on Miss Spiders Sunny Patch?"

I allow the kids to watch NOGGIN wheather I'm in the room or not. It seems to be the only TV channel I can trust. Maybe I should start watching it too. Before you know it her vocabulary will raise some eyebrows. Gosh wouldn't it be nice if I had a walking dictionary?!?!

Speaking of vocabulary. Today I asked Kalee to show me all the signs she knows so I could write them down and see where about her signing vocabulary is. I believe she knows of more but so far we came up with 119 signs in one sitting. WOW! That's my girl...

She also made a sign on my bathroom wall....

Yes, I did peel it off to make sure the band-aid was not covering up a boo-boo. I asked why she wrote her name on it, "Because we didn't have any more good ones like Dora and Diego or Winnie the Pooh". Ah-hah, now I can take the cheap way out and use permanent marker on the generic first aid kit band-aids.

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While washing the bird skat off my car and the vehilcle we are car-sitting for a friend, Bear found the bucket. Rather then kicking it, he got in! He kept repeating in a random order "pee-pee...no...cold...no...pee-pee...cold". I couldn't quite make out if he was cold and had to pee-pee or if he was not cold and didn't have to pee-pee....or maybe he wasnt cold because he already went pee-pee?

Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you how I gave him a hair cut. Key words being "how" and "I".... another day my friends.