I have a few cute stories from today.  The theme for the first two is watch what you say around 2 year olds.  I have really cleaned up my language over the last 2 years, but sometimes I’ll say something “rude” and Natalie will pick up on it.  Sometimes she’ll scold me and say “that’s not nice”, but today wasn’t one of those times.

I was walking into the bedroom this afternoon to talk to Lynn.  Natalie was right behind me.  I walked around the bed to go sit in my chair and Natalie kept coming right behind me.  I stopped and she ran right into my butt and then bounced off of the bed, giggling the whole time.  I jokingly said to her “you’re a moron”.  She replied back with “you’re a moron”.  Now I know, it’s not a good thing to call your kids dumb or moron, but she knows when I’m goofing with her, even at two.

Next story.  We were getting ready to go to the park and Lynn sent Natalie in the kitchen (where I was) with her coat and hat, presumably with instructions for me to help her put them on.  Natty handed them to me and I proclaimed “I don’t want this crap”.  She immediately bolted down the hallway to the bedroom where Lynn was getting ready and handed the stuff to her saying “Daddy doesn’t want this crap”. 

This morning she told me that she had to go potty, so I took her in the bathroom and sat her on.  I then proceeded to roll up her shirt so it wouldn’t hang down too far hence getting dirty.  She asked what I was doing, and I told her I was rolling up her shirt.  She says to me “rolled it up like ham?” (I gave her some lunch meat rolls for breakfast this morning).  I was laughing very hard at this point.  So later today when she was on the potty, we have our little joke with rolling up her shirt, like ham.

Last story for the evening.  Earlier this afternoon, we were all sitting together in the living room.  Lynn was on the couch and Natalie and I were on the floor wrestling.  Natalie started getting worked up as she is prone to do, and I was laughing at her as I am prone to do.  I stopped harrasing her just as Lynn yells “why do you two get each other going so much”  Natty stops cranking and looks at her and says “Daddy was just being funny!”  I about hit the floor laughing.  The two year old gets it.