Block

Andrew is learning to talk and he learns new words everyday.  Sometimes when he tries to say a word, it ends up sounding like something else.  Sometimes the word that he says can be very inappropriate.  An example is his newest word "Block."  Yesterday he tried saying it for the first time, however it did not sound like "block" when he said it.  Replace the "bl" with a "c" and you have the word that Andrew was saying while he was playing with his blocks.  How do you not laugh hysterically when your toddler does this?

Angry Germs and Other Updates

Just some interesting stories since I haven't posted in a while.

Dave has been sick with a stomach bug and tried explaining to Sonia that she needed to stay away because he didn't want her to get his germs and get sick.  The next day, she asked me if "Daddy's germs were still angry."  Apparently when you get sick, you're germs get angry and you need to make them happy so you feel better again.

This happened a while ago, but it's just too funny to not share.  One day Andrew was climbing on Dave and Dave said that he couldn't take that kind of abuse.  I told Sonia to tell Dave to stop being such a drama queen.  She looked right at him and said "Daddy, stop being a pajama queen."  Now we call every pajama queens.

To include Andrew in this little update, a few weeks ago Dave and I were in the kitchen talking while I was getting my lunch ready for work.  Andrew was playing in the living room.  While we were talking, Andrew comes running up to the doorway, puts his arms out and yells "YA-TA."  He then just ran back to his toys.  I couldn't stop laughing because it was just like Hiro from Heroes and it was completely out of nowhere.

Sonia has been speaking to us in riddles.  When we ask her what she wants to eat, drink, watch on TV, etc., she responds with a riddle to lead us to the answer.  When she wants chocolate pudding, she says that she wants something brown, that you scoop, that's yummy.  When she wants cereal, she wants something in a bowl, that you scoop, that has milk on it.  These are just a few examples. As long as she can come up with a few things to describe the object, she will give us a riddle.

Sonia also has an amazing imagination.  This past weekend she was at my mom's for a visit.  She was playing and told everyone that the living room was full of snakewater.  The snakes have horrible tails and no feet and they ate all the alligators.  She was fighting the snakes with her sword (a plastic spoon) in one hand and carrying the princess (one of her dolls) to safety in the other hand.  She kept telling everyone that they had to keep their feet off the floor so the snakes wouldn't be able to get them.  She continued with this whole thing the next day when we went back to my mom's.

I guess that's enough for now.  I'll try to update sooner next time.

Vampire Sex

Conversation from last night:

(A commercial for Breaking Dawn comes on TV)
Dave: (Sarcastically) Ooohhhhh, vampire sex!
Nicole: (Totally forgetting that Sonia is standing by me) I love vampire sex!
Sonia: Vampire sex? I don't like vampire sex! It's boring!

Here you go Daddy!

Dave just posted this on Facebook, but this is the type of thing that needs to go in this blog:

Sonia just walked up to Dave, smeared a gob of slime into his hand and said "Here you go, Daddy - this was in my nose."

New Orcs???

Sonia keeps spelling out the words that she sees and asking what it spells.  Street signs, Shirts, Etc.  My mom was wearing a Giants shirt and Sonia spelled out New York Giants and asked what it said.  My mom told her and when she repeated it, she said "New Orcs Giants." Go New Orcs!

Woah!

One story for each child today:

SONIA:
Yesterday morning Sonia and Andrew were playing with Dante.  Sonia would throw a tennis ball, Dante would go get it and bring it back, Andrew would take it from Dante and hand it to Sonia, the cycle then repeats.  It was very cute to watch especially since the kiddies were laughing and having a great time playing with Dante and Dante got to use up some of his morning energy.  A little later I get a text from Dave that Sonia is drawing a picture of "her doggy and his balls."  I'm pretty sure that she meant Dante's tennis balls, but you can't help but laugh at how children phrase things sometimes.

ANDREW:
Andrew is slowly learning some words.  Right now it's pretty much just 'mama' 'dada' 'baba' and 'yeah' but one of the words we hear the most is 'woah.' He says this when he almost falls, when he finally gets something he's been trying to get, basically whenver 'woah' is an appropriate response.  We laugh every time because Andrew says it exactly like Keanu, 'wooaah'.

More Hilarity from Sonia

A great conversation with Dave went something like this:

(Driving in the car)
Sonia: Daddy, I want nuggets and fries.
Daddy: We'll make you some when we get home later.
Sonia: No, I want to go to the nuggets and fries store. (everything to Sonia has it's own store)
Daddy: Sonia, we don't have any money to go to the nuggets and fries store, but we have some nuggets and fries at home that I can cook for you later.
Sonia: Oh, ok. I got an idea, we can just go to the money store to get money to get nuggest and fries at the nuggets and fries store.
Daddy: Sorry Sonia but the money store doesn't have anymore money right now.
Sonia: Oh.

I would love to know where this money store is so I can go and get some money.  We could really use some.
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Sonia is really big on telling stories.  She has memorized some of her books and some other stories.  One of the stories that she has memorized that she likes to tell us is Three Little Pigs.  When she tells this story, someone has to play the wolf and someone else plays the little piggies.  One of the times that Sonia was playing one of the little piggies, right after the Big Bad Wolf threatened to blow the house down, Sonia announces "Oh no, the big bad wolf is going to blow me."
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Also, those of you that know Dave know that he is not very handy when it comes to fixing things around the house except maybe the computer.  But to Sonia, Daddy can do anything.  Anytime something breaks around the house, Sonia always announces "I got a great idea, Daddy can fix it." Apparently Dave's repair abilities, at least according to Sonia, range from being able to change the batteries in a toy all the way to being able to fix the TV when the power goes out.