Pretty please with a cherry on top!

"May I watch TV?"
"Did you say please?"
"Pleeeeeeeeease!"
"Pretty please with a cherry on top?"
"Cherries don't grow on TVs, you silly. Cherries grow on ice creams."

On getting old...

Maya and I were having a conversation about what 'old' and 'older' mean. I explained that the longer it is since you were born, the older you are.

Maya: "I don't want to get older"
Me: "Why not? What do you think happens when you get older?"
Maya: "I don't know - what does happen when you get older?"
Daddy interjects "You get wiser!"
Me: "That's right - you learn more and more things and it's fun to learn new things"

Maya: "I think I'll just learn one thing and then I won't get older"

Monster burgers weren't a huge hit

We had a whole Halloween weekend menu planned. Maya chose the food herself and was very excited to make and eat it all. Baked eyeballs... hot dog mummies... a black lagoon and more! Pictures of everything will follow :)

Tonight, we had monster burgers. Maya was messing around with hers and not really eating it. S asked her why she wasn't eating her food.

"I AM eating it. I'm just not very impressed with it."

Oh dear!

This child cracks me up!

We were getting lunch sorted and Maya started eating some of her little bunny crackers. I said "Hey! Don't start eating them yet, Missy!" and she replied "I was just holding them in my mouth because there wasn't enough room in my hands. I only have two hands."

Yesterday, I was in the middle of making dinner, Maya was sitting at the table drinking some milk through a straw.

Talking to it.

So I ask her why she's talking to a straw.

"Well, you see, some straws have wings and some straws don't. This one is growing its wings so it can be like its Mama."

"Okaaaaaay. But why are you talking to a straw?"

"I'm not talking to a straw. That's silly.

*phew*

"It's talking to me."

She's too clever for her own good :D

What a cutie!

Theme of the week: Bubbles!

Maya and I discovered the wonder of bubbles last week - bubble bombs with baking soda and vinegar (only 1 of the 3 actually exploded but never mind!), bubble art using food colouring in the bubble mixture and, of course, lots and lots of bubble blowing! We tried different mixtures and blowers and found that the very best bubbles come from a mix of 3 parts Johnson's baby shampoo to 1 part water with a bit of glycerin thrown in for good measure, blown through a paper cone. The bubbles were so strong that Maya could even catch and hold them, and they were absolutely huge!

Took Maya to the movies

Maya and I went to the movies today! We had originally thought of going to see "Where the Wild Things Are", but after A and I read the reviews, we realized it wasn't really appropriate for Maya yet. So we decided to go to "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs".

It went really well, although Maya did fall out in the parking lot and scrape her knee a little. We had popcorn and she was a good little girl, sharing her popcorn with me, whispering in hushed tones to not disturb others and in general being overall adorable. So much so that at some point during the movie, the lady next to her offered her some chocolate and whispered to me "I've never seen a little girl so well behaved" :) Maya does me proud, if I may say so myself.

At the end of the movie, Maya said to me "These were different wild things, daddy". Ooops. I guess we forgot to update her that we were going to a dfferent movie!