Creative Comments from Gretchie's mouth!
I was trying to find a parking spot and missed one close--she replies Its ok mommy we can walk into the store! Ha-how did she even know it was a parking spot I missed close to the door???
Today she takes a pencil ,a photo of me , and a tin metal box and says Goodbye--I am going to work --See ya soon! I was busy and did not answer she says in a low voice mommy I am leaving---I said --Oh goodbye Gretchen and where are you working today---not even a second later she says I work at WalMart! She then proceeds to tell me she had her computer in the metal box-----teeeheee
Last week she started calling me Mama--off Winnie the Pooh!! Then it went into Mama Christine---I was not liking it-but it was funny! Its back to mommy again this week!
She never touches the remote for the tv at home--at the hotel I hear her yelling I did it--I did it I found CLIFFORD!!! She actually found the right button out of all those!! THAT MUST HAVE COME NATURAL--because mommy still has a hard time finding the buttons on different remotes!
Yesterday I was putting laundry away--I hear MOMMY FIND ME---now I totally knew she was in the basket with it over her body in the middle of my bedroom! I say where are you??--she says I am under your bed --go look!! I looked under and when I went to get up from bending over the basket had moved behind me--ha! So I stepped over the basket and went to look for her in the closet!! Guess what the basket followed me again----ha! Now thats funny.....I have never had a moving basket trying to play hide and seek----I went into the hall --she did not follow me--so I knocked on the bottom of the basket over her---MOMMY YOU FOUND ME ---GREAT JOB!!! Ahhh--the imagination!! We only played once!!! But it was a very long game of hide and seek--
I took G on rides to get her to sleep when we were at the hotel---she just will not give up and life is so exciting!! Well the smartie pants started asking nightly where are we going---I would not answer--mommy are we going to the store--to get her to be QUIET --I would say yes now close your eyes--and between 6 -13 minutes she would be ASLEEP!! Then she got smart to that and asked can we please go inside. ----I said tomorrow you can go inside---ha--
G was watching Captain Carlos on tv---I was in the bathroom at the hotel and she runs in and says MOMMY JOHN CARLOS is on TV!!!! I played along with her and said Really---Noooo ...she says and smiles he's on the computer and Captain Carlos is on tv!!! (thought you would laugh at this Kathy!)
Friday night when I tucked her into her bed--we were saying our prayers and I finished she sits straight up and says Mommy we forgot to say thank-you for the hotdogs!! We had eaten hotdogs at Costco for lunch and daddy and G sang the Hot Diggety Dog song from Mickey Mouse Club all the way home!!! Hot dogs were important to her-- --oh the small joys of life-----thank-you Jesus for making hot dogs!!
Gretchie loves her to Babar books daddy bought her a month ago--on the spine they had a black mark (maybe a arkdown price??) she says mommy look when I was a baby I drew on these--ahh taking the blame I said no they were like that when daddy bought them--she then says OH DADDY THANK-YOU FOR MY BABAR BOOKS ---I LOVE THEM!!! heeehe!!
Gretchie would you like more cereal for breakfast?
NO thanks mommy I am soooo full!! So dramatic!
She also just started going to the potty chair on the OPPOSITE floor we are on if we are downstairs she wants to go up and we are upstairs she wants to go down! How silly is that!! I am just so happy she is potty trained!
unch! They have a kids area--jumpy house and games and crafts they can do. Free cookies, drinks and entertainment and then at 11 am is the hour meeting and followed by lunch!!! Lee and I were trying o figure out how many years we have gone but I think its 4 --maybe one less one more--ha--ITS FUN!! We listened to African marimba music from 4th &
5th graders from a school. Gretchen just sat there and clapped--looked at us and said I like the music! (In fact--even put her cookie down to clap) Gretchen was a better age this year and enjoyed more of the activities --Can you guess her favorite was the jumpy house--but wold not go in with three boys and waited and when they left she yells--ITS MY TU
RN!! We were early so she got to go in this huge jumpy house all BYSELF!!! She even got out when it was time. We played a couple of the games ---One was this drop the metal washers into this plinko type board (like on Price is Right) You had to put one washer in each color on the board----very random! But she DID IT!!! Leave it to a two year old!! She won tickets--then she played snap a frog (shoot it like a rubberband) into a hula hoop! She snapped it like the other kids and then went to pick up the hula hoop! The concept wasnt quite there but she DID IT again on the 4th or 5th try!! We were saving our tickets to go in the jumpy house when the deflated it at 11 am--She was horrified the jumpy house went down!!! But was soon lured into going to eat lunch! They had dooor prizes and G would clap evry time they called someones name!! She was taken out 3 times in the meeting/lunch 2 to go potty and once I carried out because she was being noisy!!! Well after we had eat
en and she would not be quiet---I carried her out placed her down on the cement and she runs to the outhouse---Guess she had to go---but once inside would not go! I had encountered this same situation a half hour before with her(she finally went) sooo I tried to ignore her plea this time---met Lee outside the meeting was just over and I started telling him the details of her experience (Like he wanted to know ---ya right) Lee turns to me and says YOU know what is interesting you just WON THE GRAND PRIZE!! He kept walking I stopped and yelled LEE you are kidding! He pulls out the envelope and As mommy is freaking out I won $100 off my power bill and 2 box seat tickets and 2 dinner buffets to the rodeo in August,
Gretchie is looking at me sooo confused--until I said Gretchie we WON--she started yelling and clapping!!! How exciting---Lee had said when we walked in today we were finally due to WIN--and we won big!!! She did go potty when we got to the front door of the main building! The only other time I had won $300 was at highschool graduation party(forever ago) They drew another name and I walked in-----I was with a friend and we were at the wrong door of the building to get in --whaaaa!! 
