Dress Up

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin by teamtradermom

Today I took a walk with an astronaut and mountain climber and then had tea with a princess, railroad conductor AND a Viking. What can I say, I have a wide variety of friends and interests!

When Isabella woke up this morning, we headed out for what has become a Saturday morning tradition – a mommy and daughter walk.

Last week we encountered a flock of geese at the lake, just as the sun was coming up.

This week we stopped to play at the park. My original plan was to just walk and push her in the stroller but she so badly wanted to stop and play. Plus, I figured it was probably the best time to do it, given it was the coolest part of the day. So we stopped and she rode the shuttle to outer space!

We kept walking until we came upon a second park. We stopped for more play time and she was able to climb the curved ladder thing all by herself for the first time (and second, third and 4th too)!

If you ask her, Munchkin will tell you that she climbed the “equipment”. Heaven forbid she use a word that most kids would use like “ladder” or “steps” or “bars”. No no, she climbed the equipment.

We got home and had breakfast, cleaned up and then it was dress up time!

Isabella set up the table with all the foods for the picnic and then it was time to eat!

She was really enjoying pretending to drink that soda since she’s not allowed to have any in real life.

Viking hat looks good on her, eh?

I tried it on for size as well.

Adding a feather boa to go with, naturally (thanks to the Brit for the gift)!

We both also took turns being princesses.

Here’s Isabella’s version –

And here’s mine.

She then took a turn at being a railroad conductor (showing off her fancy jewels)!

While I did my best Disney Villain impression.

MUHAHAHAHA! Beware or I’ll laser you with my crazy eye!

Samson even got in on it!

I was able to snag that pic in the 2 seconds he was not trying to attack the boa. He must of detected a hint of bird scent still left on the feathers because he went flippin’ crazy when we pulled it out of the bag.

We followed the pretend tea party with a real lunch and naptime. At one point, Isabella asked me when I was going to work. I told her I didn’t have to work today and that I would be with her, Daddy and Dude all day! She got a big smile on her face and then ran over and gave my legs a big hug!

My sentiments exactly. Not a bad way to spend a day. Not bad at all!

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17Jul2012

Puff

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin, Miscellaneous by teamtradermom

I’m not a crier. I may have mentioned this before but it’s worth repeating. I am not one to get emotional at movies, books, TV shows or songs.

Except for that ASPCA animal cruelty commercial with the Sarah MacLauchlan song playing in the background. My heavens that is like a arrow straight to the heart! I have to immediately turn the channel or risk a meltdown and then emergency run to the Humane Society to buy up every last puppy there.

At any rate, I may not cry a lot but I do feel emotions. Despite popular opinion that I am “Hard-hearted Hannah from the South of Savannah” (cough MOM cough), I really do feel things. One powerful image I have from childhood was with a certain dragon named Puff.

Remember that one? It’s a song by Peter, Paul and Mary about a little boy named Jackie Paper who has a pet dragon and they play and have wonderful times until the boy grows up and leaves at which point Puff essentially crawls in to his cave and dies. Or as the song goes, “Puff that mighty dragon he ceased his fearless roar.”

Get your Kleenex ready…

Really? REALLY?! This is a children’s song! Come on, man! Every time I heard that song I would get sad and want to cry. Poor Puff! I have outlawed that song from ever being played in my presence again, along with the movies Fox and the Hound and Bambi (come on Disney!).

Well guess what?

My mom gave Isabella a “Puff the Magic Dragon” book today. And behold! It came with a CD of the song!

Puff, the Magic Dragon

(source)

When I saw it I gave my mom a look and said, “Please tell me this is not the original song with the sad ending.”

She assured me that no, this was a different ending, a happy one, where Jackie comes back with his daughter to play with Puff. Great! All is well in the world.

I even played the CD in the car on the way home.

It was not a new version.

It was the original version.

And the weirdest thing happened. My eyes started leaking. There must be something wrong with them. Most likely a side affect of getting older.

Isabella fell asleep so she didn’t hear most of it. Someday we’ll have to explain it to her though.

Or I could ban it from ever being played again. EVER.

8Jul2012

Whistle While you Work

Posted in Isabella/Munchkin by teamtradermom

We went to the Homerun Derby at TD Ameritrade Park last week. While there, we bought Isabella a smoothie that came in a “cup” almost as big as she is!

She figured out how to use that really long straw as a whistle….

Here’s a sneak peak at her playing “Camptown Races” on it.

Isabella whistles Camptown Races using a straw!

She’s got the choreography down pretty well too!

CJ’s trying to teach her how to spin it around really fast to make a high pitched whistle but she hasn’t figured out how to do that without hitting someone/something….

We’ll stick with the regular whistling for now!

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19Jun2012

From the Mouths of Babes: Rhyme Time

Posted in From the Mouths of Babes by teamtradermom

Isabella and I have been practicing rhyming lately. You know, for when we start our own hip hop group, “Izzie and Momzy.”

I was telling Grandma how well Isabella is doing and wanted to demonstrate so I said, “Munchkin, what rhymes with ‘sit’?”

She looked at me and replied, “SHIT!”

I immediately flashed back to when I was 10 and called my sister a bitch. I had soap in my mouth so fast, even Superman couldn’t save me. In horror, I turned to see what my parents reaction would be.

They both burst out laughing.

I then started to wonder where in the world Isabella got that word from since we’re careful not to swear around her (sure, we slip up now and again but overall we’re pretty darn good about it). My question was answered when she went on to say, “And cake rhymes with SHAKE! And dirt rhymes with SHIRT! And park rhymes with SHARK!”

She was simply rhyming everything with ‘sh-‘ words.

Phew!

Just in case, I’ll steer clear of asking her to rhyme words with ‘duck’ or ‘witch’ or ‘class’.