She's A Witty One! :)

If I don't write this down right now I'm going to forget it and then I'll be sad that I never remembered to share my funny Karys stories. :) Both of these stories happened today...she must've been in a really good mood and was feeling quite witty!

I learned from a wise friend that the best time to fix a little girl's hair is while she is eating breakfast. So this morning I was trying a new style on her and it required 3 rubber bands. I had them sitting on the kitchen table and Karys picked one of them up and was playing with it. When the time came that I needed it I was holding her ponytail in my hand and the rubber band was nowhere in sight. Slightly irritated by this, I looked around the table saying, "Aarrgh, Karys, why do you always do this to me?" She was looking around the table trying to find the rubber band too and then said, "Under table." Now I was even more irritated because I had to let go of her ponytail to get down on the floor and look for the rubber band. I'm looking around and getting really aggravated because the rubber band is nowhere to be found which means I'll have to go back to the bathroom to get another one. At the time that I stand up to go get another one, my witty child holds up this rubber band in her hand! While I can't remember exactly what she said, it was something to the effect of, "Look, Mommy!" She'd had it the whole time!! Not only that, she knew exactly what she was doing because then she said, "Funny!" :)

The second story happened at my sister-in-law's house. She has a basket of school supplies on her kitchen table and Karys found an Elmer's glue bottle in it and pulled it out. I told her to put it back and she looked at the bottle and said something I didn't understand. I told her that was "glue" and I thought she tried to repeat me, but didn't get it right. So I drew the word out so she could hear all the sounds, "Gllllluuuuuue." To which she goes, "Cooowwwwww." :) She had been pointing the cow on the Elmer's glue bottle, not the actual glue bottle itself! :) It really cracked me up!

"Yo, Elmo!"

Hopefully this story will translate well since it's being written and it won't make my child sound like a brat! :) We've been working with Karys lately on how to ask for things properly, partly based on the story you're about to read. For anyone that doesn't know, Karys is being seen by a speech therapist for some speech delays. One of the things she can't do is repeat after you if you use too many words. For example, if I tell her to say, "May I watch Elmo, please?" she'll say, "Elmo, please!" So I've been shortening it and having her repeat, "May I," "watch," "Elmo, please." and now she remembers it all and can say it by herself. We just started having her say this much because I used to accept her just saying, "Elmo, please." Or, "Juice, please." So here's the funny story:

There have been a couple of occasions where Karys wants something and when she decides she wants something she will not give up on it. Usually she just repeats herself over and over, even if I've said no or not now. So on this particular occasion she wanted to watch Elmo. So she said, "Elmo, please." I think I just ignored it at first so she kept saying, "Elmo, please. Elmo, please." I probably finally said, "No, not right now." But still, she kept going: "Elmo, please. Elmo, please." And when she didn't get the response from me she wanted she goes, "Yo! Elmo!" (If this makes her sound bratty, it's not meant to...it was totally hilarious!!) I really have no idea where she got the word, "Yo!" but it cracked me up. Although after thinking about it for awhile, I have one place where she might have gotten it. If you don't watch "Sesame Street" daily like we do, you might not know about a new segment they have called "Murray Had A Little Lamb." There is an orange monster on "Sesame Street" now whose name is Murray and sometimes he and his little lamb go and visit different schools (ex. karate school, ballet school, etc.) and the segment has a theme song. It starts out singing, "Murray has a little lamb..." to the tune of "Mary Had A Little Lamb," then breaks out into a rap that goes, "Yo! Murray has a little lamb who wears a little bow..." That's the only place I can think of where she would've heard someone say "Yo!"

*Disclaimer: She does not get what she wants for saying, "Yo! Elmo!" just in case you thought I might let her have anything she wanted for being cute/funny. :)

*Second Disclaimer: This story was intended to make you smile/laugh. Hopefully it did that and nothing more. :)