A Princess

This morning when my husband was getting ready for school and putting his shoes on Jif quickly asked me for a cup of juice.  I gave him one and then he said loudly that he wanted to sit on dada's lap to drink the juice.  He was obviously trying to prevent my husband from going to work.  Dada couldn't resist and cuddled with Jif for a little bit and then my husband said, "Jif I love you" in which Jif replied, "No, dada love school."  I think Jif was laying on the guilt a little too thick.
Today I had a lot of laundry to fold so I rented Aladin On Demand and Jif and I watched it together while I folded clothes.  Jif loved it!  When DaDa got home I told him that Jif and I watched a movie.  DaDa asked Jif, "What movie did you watch?"  Jif responded "Princess Movie" (referring to Jasmine).  I said, that's right, we watched Aladin and Princess Jasmine, do you know who else is a princess?  Reese is a princess."  Jif replied immediately with "Jif princess too!"  We tried all night to convince him that he was a prince.  We are still working on that one.  However he drew the conclusion on his own that mama is also a princess. :)
Jif loves disneyland.  The other morning (a weekday morning) Jif woke up and DaDa went to get him.  Jif said "Go Disneyland?"  DaDa said, "no, not today".  Jif said, "Disneyland fun, rides, yee ha!"  DaDa said, Disneyland is fun, maybe we will go this weekend.  Jif then decided to switch tactics "Watch Cars?"  DaDa said, "Let's get you some cereal," and Jif said "Cars funny!  Cows--moo pbluffhfhf." (Referring to the tractor tipping on the movie cars).  We have gone to disneyland a couple of times this month and Jif loves it!  DaDa said he had to do homework on Friday so Jif (with the help of mama) said "Disneyland Disneyland! Disneyland!" until DaDa gave in.  It also helped that Jif ran and got his mickey mouse ears to convince DaDa to go.  After our day at disneyland DaDa tucked Jif in bed and Jif said "Disneyland fun.  Happy Happy".  DaDa has no regrets about that day at disneyland.  There is nothing like tucking your toddler into bed while he repeats the word happy over and over because he had the best day of his life.

Funny?

Jif has a wild sense of humor.  For the last week, whenever he says something he looks at me and says "Funny?" and waits for me to affirm whether that was funny.  Sometimes he is right on when asking about funny, for instance he will say "Goofy, funny?" but sometimes he is not, for instance when he hits Reese and then asks "Funny?" No..Not funny.  Jif has always been the class clown and he loves an audience, which is a problem because when he gets wild Reese always laughs and then there is no stopping him.  I know that I might have to talk to his teachers about this in the future when he is in grade school.

The other day my husband got Jif dressed for bed, he put on pajama bottoms and an Old Navy Christmas shirt from 2010 with a picture of Santa on it.  Jif walked out and I asked "What's on your shirt?"  Jif replied "Christmas!"  I said, "Right, but who is that a picture of on your shirt?"  Jif was quiet so I said, "Is that Santa on your shirt?"  Jif replied, no mama, it's not Santa, it's God".  I'm glad he knows the true meaning of Christmas.

8/18/11

Jif:  Last night my husband came to me asking if Jif was really saying that he was afraid of a cow in his room when he was tucking him in.  I said that I didn't know.  Today while I was tucking Jif into his bed for his nap Jif said, "Scared cow!" I said, "A cow?"  He said, "Yeah mama, scared cow, moo moo."  I said, "Where is the cow?"  He said, "It's right there, see it?"  I said, "In the crib?" and he replied "Yeah".  So I removed the invisible cow from the crib across from his bed and told the cow that he was not allowed in Jif's room.  I am currently listening to my husband tuck Jif into bed tonight and Jif is saying he is still scared of the cow in the crib.  I've heard of monsters under the bed, lions in the closet, but cows in the crib?
Lately Jif has been saying that he's scared of a lot of things, two of which being bunnies and potties.  I'm ok if he wants to be afraid of a bunny, but he is not allowed to be afraid of the potty.

Jif: Lately Jif has been telling us that his favorite food is corn and how yummy it is.  Unfortunately he uses a "p" instead of a "c" to start the word corn.  We are working hard to fix that one.

Reese:  Jif has been going around the house singing "ee iii eee iii ooo" (Old McDonald).  Reese has quickly caught on and whenever Jif starts up she sings along "eee iiii eee iii eee iii".  Isn't she a little young to be doing that?  At first I thought it was a coincidence but she has done it a dozen times now while he is singing.  I think she is going to be an early talker.

8/15/11

"Yay! Family Night! Yay! Family Night! Yay Family Night!"-Jif was very excited for family night tonight.
"I love Mama and I love Reese" - Jif, the first time he has ever said he loved Reese
Later that night I told Dad what Jif said and Dad said "What about dada?" Jif replied "I love Dada and I love Reese".
"DaDa!"-Reese (says with pure happiness in her voice) "MaMa!" -Reese (says with pure frustration and pain in her voice)

"Oh No! Car Broken, mama. Oh Toodles! Thank you toodles, bye!"- Jif (with a common interaction with his imaginary friend Toodles)

"meow, meow" -Jif (crawling around on hands and knees pretending to be a kitty)