Latest Jordan Goofiness

Jordan's got some new games and sayings we find amusing. Here's a sample:

- she lines her library books up, propped open, on the floor and calls it a castle

- she mixes up her propositions "to" and "for". She'll say "Is this cookie to Mama?" (why, yes it is); "Are we going for the grocery store?"....I wonder if she's thinking "two" and "four" instead of "to" and "for".

- she's into labeling people her best friend. There's a little girl at school she calls her best friend, and they are attached at the hip. But she'll also say Nana is her best friend and Mama can't be her best friend. Huh.

- sometimes when Jacob starts crying, she'll grab his little elephant toy and wave it an inch from his face. She says she's making him happy. I asked her to entertain him this way one day when he was sounding off and I couldn't get to him. Now this is her go-to (or her go-for?) solution anytime he cries and she's feeling maternal.

- I think Jo may have figured out how to fib. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Yesterday was my turn to provide the snack at preschool, and the drink was apple juice. When we got home for lunch, Jo was thirsty. She told me they had milk at snack that day. Then she asked to drink juice.

- when Jo wants something she thinks the answer will be No for, she whispers the request.

- Jo likes to start off by saying "Mama, Mama, I have to ask you a question." When I say "OK, what is it?" sometimes she's already forgotten and responds with "What??"

- our threats to withhold certain privileges, toys, etc for poor behavior are failing. If Jordan won't pick up her toys (a daily battle) and that means she can't go to the park, then she just tells us "I don't want to go to the park." Lately she also hasn't wanted a cookie, to watch her Xmas shows, or Santa to bring her presents.

- Jordan says some really amusing things, and we laugh. We're not laughing at her, we're just tickled by whatever she's blurted out. She doesn't like it, and will hold up her hand and say "Don't laugh, Mama, it's not funny."

- Jordan's hooked on Christmas music. Every time we're in the car, we have to listen to the Christmas station on the radio. I don't mind, but they do play the same songs OVER AND OVER. Yet I still don't know all the words. Frosty the Snowman came on, and I was requested to sing along. When it got to the part I didn't know, I went "dah dah dah", and Jordan says, all serious, "You need to learn this one, Mama."