Finleyisms - Part 4

I'm not sure if I will grow tired of hearing some of the quirky things you say :)

• Yogurt = oh-grit
• Oatmeal - et-milk
• I do it all myself...have I mentioned this one already?  Because it's pretty popular.  :)
• You refer to mustard as "dat yewwow stuff."  You are not a fan.
• When we tell you that it is time to stop doing something, you immediately respond with, "but I juss need to do _____ a tiny widdle bit.  I come in juss a second."  Quite the negotiator.  
• Nank you = thank you
• Widdle nice guys - Little Einsteins 
• "I wuv pink mommy.  I wuv pink so much.  Iss my favowite cowor."
• Beshtables = vegetables 
• Fridge-a-Der = refrigerator
• "It's called..."   I honestly have no idea where this came from, but you say it all the time.  It's basically your opening line to most explanations and arguments.  For example, "it's called, daddy tell me I can do diss." It's pretty funny.  
• "Fimme not go in time out uh cuz gails (girls) don't do time out."  Okay.  Sure.  
• You refer to going number two as doing a stinky diaper.  Again, whatever floats your boat, girl.  
• You use the preposition "to" for the preposition "for" all the time.  "This is not to babies."  "This is not to you."  "Is this to me?"  "I have a gift to you."  Sometimes it works, but most of the time, it does not. 
• Jingle Bells = gingerbread.  You interchange these words :)
• Ornaments are also called jingle bells...or instruments.  
• Pesky dust = pixie dust
• Nakesgiving = Thanksgiving
• Valetimes = Valentine's
• Shammiches, shammiches = savages, savages 🎶🎶 from Pocahontas.  

You are definitely a chatterbox, and I love it :)

You also love to make up songs to narrate what you are doing.  You still love for us to sing to you at night, and you often quote songs to us.  The funniest song that you sing DAILY is from Daniel Tiger.  "STOP, and go right away.  Flush and wash and go on your way."  God bless Daniel Tiger and the manners and life lessons he shares with us.

You sing the Veggie Tales theme song in every store we go into. Your translation of all the different vegetables is pretty fantastic.  Perhaps I'll be able to capture that on video soon.  

You are interested obsessed with mail right now.  You love to receive things in the mail and always ask me if the mail is "to you."  But recently, and I attribute this to our Christmas card season, you want to send mail ALL DAY.  You ask us to work on your mail all the time.  Because Valentine's Day is right around the corner, I recently found the cutest Disney Princess mailbox for $2.88.  BEST.BUY.EVER.  We have tiny envelopes, rubber stamps, stickers, princess tape, all the goodies for fun mail.  We will need to tap into your piggy bank to help foot our stamp bill, but you are loving it and that is what matters.  I love your innocence and that you love simple things.    

Right now you love Princess Sofia, PJ Masks, Peppa Pig, Doc McStuffins, Daniel Tiger, and Veggie Tales.  And of course we are still die-hard princess fans :)

You still pronounce your name "Fimme Jo Willmums."  Precious.  

Resternot = restaurant 

Hostible - hospital 

Aminal = animal

"Th" sounds are still pronounced with an "f" for the most part...fee-uh is THEA, free is THREE...

Don't grow up, baby girl.  Just don't do it.  

Potty Training - DAY ONE

Well, today is the day.  A little late to the game, but it's our game, and that's fine :)

We have our Princess potty chart.  We have our Princess stickers.  We have Minnie Mouse panties, bright and colorful panties, and more Princess panties.  We have our potty chair, a potty seat, easy-to-reach soap, and the bottle of bleach is on deck for those inevitable "bleachable" moments coming our way.

Let's do this, Finley!  Can't wait to have our potty parties!

Finley-isms - Part 3

Oh Finley.  You make me smile :)

More of your "isms" -

• brapes = grapes
• mato = tomato 
• You are still a fabulous counter, but you always insist that there are actually more than there really are.  I think you just like to count out loud.
• Him mizing at me!!!  = he's smiling at me. 
• I do it all myself.  
• You have LOTS of "best frayands..."  
• Bistol
• Harlyn
• Kitty (JoJo's cat)
• Baby brudder
• Mommy
• Ketchup = checkup 
• Sprinkles = brinkles 
• Sparkle = barkle 
• You love your princess movies.  You have nearly memorized Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Little Mermaid. 
• Speaking of the Little Mermaid, the other day, you sat down at lunch at a restaurant, lifted up the fork, and proudly announced, "Mommy, wook!  It a dinglehopper!"  HILARIOUS! 

• I will never tire of hearing your sweet voice.  Okay, maybe when you are whining or trying to talk to me when it is WAY past your bedtime :)

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More Finley-isms

I guess I will have to keep adding on to the list of fun things Finley continues to say.

Finley, I feel like I need to keep adding on to your list of fun and quirky things:

• Ready, steady, DOH!!!!  (another Peppa Pig phrase)
• Do a-den, do a-den!  (Do again)
• Unfortunately, the word purse is not so clear and is slightly inappropriate...it comes out very much like "piss."  No bueno.
• CORRECTION:  Sleeping Beauty is actually SEEPING Booty.  Oh boy.
• I am always encouraging you to talk to your baby brother, but your response is always, " HIM TAN'T TALK!!!"  You look at me like I'm so unintelligent...like why would she ask me to talk to something that clearly doesn't know how to talk?!
• "Look mom!  I wunning in circuhs!" as you literally run around in a tight circle in whatever room we happen to be in.  Won't lie...this one is weird to me.
• "No mama, you not a dirl (girl), you a mommy!"
• You desperately want a superhero cape, and your semi-crafty mother has failed in delivering that to you.  Instead, all bath towels and blankets have turned into capes.
• I will do my best to remember your sweet compliments right now, especially when it comes to the clothes I wear.  Anytime I wear a skirt or a dress, which is pretty often, you tell me, "wow mommy, so pretty in your dwess!"  Be still my heart.  I know one day I most likely will be the dumbest, most unfashionable person in your life.  
• You think that by adding "pwiddy pweese" to everything, that you should automatically receive it.  And you repeat it no less than twenty times.
• Delicious is currently pronounced DEE-wish-us.  You're just so cute.
• I think I already mentioned this but maybe not.  You can't say the ST blend, so today, you told me to hurry up because a big dorm was coming :). 
• "I watch daddy make fire."  You sound so archaic saying this.
• Your new favorite addition to our song list is "Twickle Twickle Wittle Dar."  
• Lately, you've been telling us, "shhhhhh dine-saws seeping!"  (Dinosaurs sleeping).  I have yet to figure out the origin of this one.  
• Your blankie is referred to as your "winky."
• "Wook, mommy, wook!"  Look, mommy, look!
• "Wash me, mama, wash me!"  Watch me, mama, watch me!
• "No, do wike dis"  Do like this.  
• You have been DESPERATE to go on a holiday, another word you have learned from Peppa Pig.  We finally came through for you and took you to the beach!  More on that later :)

Finley, you continue to make us laugh on a daily basis.  You are a joy and a delight, even when you are acting like a typical toddler :)

We love you, sweet girl!

These Are the Days

It's 3:15 am.  My alarm is set to go off in 4.5 hours.  I haven't gone to sleep yet tonight.

Just as soon as I got little man to sleep (he's stubborn...it was after midnight), I took a shower, got a few things ready for tomorrow (today now), I crawled in bed, set my alarm and closed my eyes, only to be summoned by our sickly toddler who was crying and wanting to be rocked...who then threw up on me and in the hallway between her room and the bathroom.  I changed my clothes, rocked her some more, put her back in her bed, and she requested her Sunshine Oway song.  We sang, I left, got to my bedroom door, and she started crying again.  

I went to her room, and the sweet girl had thrown up in her bed.  So we rushed to the bathroom, and she sat on the rug while I changed her sheets. 

She's now back in bed and the baby could be awake any moment.  

One day all too soon, I will miss this season of life with my littles.  Cherishing every moment, even the hard ones.    

My Sweet Finley Girl - Almost 3!

My sweet, sweet girl is growing up way too fast.  She will be THREE in July...how on earth did that happen?  I've decided I need to do a better job of capturing each stage/season of what we are doing and experiencing together.  Therefore, we are resurrecting this blog yet again :)  Maybe I will be able to keep it up????

In no particular order, these are some of Finley's fun little quirks and some of the developmental milestones she is hitting.  I want to write it as if it were a letter for her to read someday.

My precious Finley girl,

You are an absolute joy to be around, even when you are being a typical toddler.  I am loving life with you, and thoroughly enjoying this season we are in.  Here are just a few of the things you are doing right now, just shy of three years old :)

• You pronounce your name Fimme.
• Shammich = sandwich (kind of reminds me of Godwin on Duck Dynasty).  
• You know your entire alphabet, and will sing it most of the time you are asked.  However, you insist on leaving out the E, and on occasion, you simply end it with T, U, V, then finish with "now I know my ABCs."
• You are definitely my daughter when it comes to some OCD tendencies.  You line up your toys, and you have to have things a certain way.  While I love seeing you have these little quirks, your daddy finds it scary :)
• Some of your favorite TV shows right now include Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, and Daniel Tiger.  
• You are currently obsessed with dinosaurs, and I attribute that to Peppa Pig's little brother, George, and his Dine-saw!
• You are a professional staller.  You really know how to work us when it comes to delaying certain things, especially nap time/bed time.  I have to hand it to you though...you know your audience well...you ask Daddy to read more Bible stories, you ask to pray for the entire neighborhood, and you ask me to sing "Sunshine Oway" just one more time.  What can I say, I'm a sucker most nights :(
• Speaking of bed time, you are a night owl.  It doesn't seem to matter what time nap starts, when it ends, or if you even take a nap.  Some nights, you lie in your bed until almost 11 pm just talking to yourself or to one of the fifty toys and stuffed animals you take to bed with you.  
• When we pray at night before bed, you include the following people/things on your prayer list:
• Mommy, Daddy, and Mimi Brudge/Bruddah (Mimi = baby, and it has for quite some time)
• Womma (Grandma), PaPa (Grandpa), Womma Fimme (Grandma Finley), Priss (Chris), Kay (Kelly), Ehen (Ethan), Audin (Austin), Isaac is shockingly clear, and Aundrew (Andrew)...you refer to them as "the boys."
• PawPaw (grandpa Dave), Jojo (Jolene), Buyer (Bryer), Ensawee (Ensley), Pawks (Parks), Harr (Harlyn), Bo-dee (Brody), Bysty (Brystol), Oo-ee (Lou Lee).  
• The Disney Princesses...all of them.  If we leave one out, you are upset.  
• We pray for our favorite dogs (and their humans):  Sairy (Sherry), Deev (Steve), and their dog Woxy (Roxy); Tona (Devin and Veronica's dog, Kona), and Sam (Uncle Rob's dog).
• Your favorite songs to sing at night include:
• Sunshine Oway (You Are My Sunshine)
• Let It Dough (Let It Go, from Frozen)
• Itsy Spise (Itsy Bitsy Spider)
• Jesus Wubs Me (Jesus Loves Me)
• The ABC song
• Just recently, you have started to request the pointer song (Where is Pointer, where is Pointer, Here I am, Here I am).
• ****It must be said...Daddy isn't allowed to sing any of the songs that Mommy typically sings, which is most of them.  
• Sometimes, when we ask you to stop doing something or we tell you no, your response is, "Oh, I'm sorry.  I just..." ending with whatever you are doing that you aren't supposed to do.  For example:
• Me - "Finley, please stop putting that in his face." 
• Finley - "Oh, I'm sorry.  I just showing him."  
• Me - "Finley, that's not how we use that keyboard."
• Finley - "Oh sorry.  I just typing my paper."
• You have recently become obsessed with the Disney princesses.  I honestly don't mind, and actually rather enjoy it.  You have a particularly large place in your heart for Cinderella.  We now own the Little People Disney Princess Castle (tassel, in your case), and you LOVE IT!
• Sleeping Beauty is currently pronounced Sleeping Booty.  
• Like I mentioned before, you know your ABCs.  You also know your numbers and can count to twenty on your own, higher if we help.  You went through a phase where you counted like this:  1, 2, 5 10.  Everything was 1, 2, 5, 10.  You also say eleventeen...
• You talk...a lot.  So many people used to tell me to enjoy your silence while it lasted because soon you would never cease to speak.  But I honestly love listening to you.  You're hilarious...intentionally and unintentionally.  I understand about 95% of what you say.  Sometimes though, I'm just at a loss.  You have a few phonetic hang ups, but they're cute :). For example: 
• You are able to say the sounds for C and K, but for whatever reason, when you talk, they come out as T or P.  Cat=tat, cup=tup, climb=plimb, crying=prying
• The ST combination is a tricky one. Stinky=dinky, stick=dick...which can be problematic when you are yelling it through our neighborhood :). 
• Snowman=noman, sneeze=neeze
• Okay=otay
• When you want something, or "need" something, you tell us that you miss it.  Like, this morning, you missed your Teddy Bear (mommy's old bear), so we had to run back inside for your bear.
• You are typically a great eater, and you love your chocolate milk.  Sometimes, however, you get so distracted by what you are playing with that you just can't sit still to eat.  
• You love to read, but have mostly been using this as a stalling tactic lately.  You still love the Mouse books (Merry Christmas Mouse, Happy Birthday Mouse, and the rest of the titles in that series).  
• You love to be outside.  One of your favorite places to go is the park, whether it is the smaller park in our neighborhood, or the larger parks in town.  
• You enjoy going fishing with daddy, and he even bought you a princess fishing pole.  Currently, there is a tall glass of water on our bookshelf with your "fish" that you caught.  I believe it is a lure or a bait. 
• When it is time for a nap, you tell us that you're not tired and that you can't take a nap because the sun is still out.  
• You are definitely into playing by yourself.  You are at that wonderful stage where you are imagining and making your characters talk.  
• You love to make pretend phone calls to people, probably because you have been playing with phones since before you were one.  
• You do not like Beast, from Beauty and the Beast.  He is always left out, or left alone in the living room while all of the other characters get to play in your room.  
•  You love to play with bubbles outside.  
• You have repeatedly told daddy that he can't watch baseball or basketball because you do not like to watch it.  
• You love to go check the mail, and you are now super interested in playing with pieces of mail.  I had to go out to the garage and gather up various sizes of stationery and greeting cards for you to play with.  You walk around with one of them, stating that it is an invitation for a party.  
• You LOVE your baby brother.  You pronounce his name Tenton (Kenton), and you are always telling us, "him so toot (cute)."  You love to be in his face and hold his hand.  You ask me to take your picture with him.  You always want to see him and hold him.  So grateful that this transition has gone this way so far.
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My sweet baby.  We love you so very much and are so so thankful you are our daughter.  Can't wait to continue watching you grow.

Baby Love

Let's see how many times one can resurrect a blog.

Big changes in our world. We welcomed our first child to the world on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 2:04 am. Finley Jo Williams, 8 pounds 12 ounces, 20 3/4 inches long. Full head of brownish red hair. Absolute perfection :). Our world hasn't been the same ever since and we can't wait to watch her grow, although she had better slow down a little bit.