June 2011

1st
Amie: I want to go to a museum with statues made of people.
Me: They're made of wax, honey. Not people. There's a difference.

This was brought on by an episode of Paddington Bear where he went to a wax museum. My child doesn't really want to see corpses dismembered and turned into art. I hope.

Or would she...?

May 2011

1st
Amie just asked why do I only have one kid. I told her that's all I'm lucky enough to have just yet, but maybe I'll have more one day. She wants me to hurry up with that.

She asked me to take her photo, and then posed like this. The flower was her reward for being so brave while getting vaccinated.

April 2011

1st
We're making cheats cookies today (from a roll of cookie dough we bought this week), and I asked Amie if she'd like to help make the cookies. "Of course!" she says. I hand her some dough...and she promptly eats it. Apparently her definition of helping means eating as much cookie dough as possible.

The icing is the best part.

March 2011

6th
Amie requested 5 books at bedtime tonight, then quickly upped it to 100. She'd already had her story by then, so she settled for 100 kisses, but we only got up to around 45 before she'd had enough.

February 2011

8th
While it's nice to have your kids think you can do anything, sometimes they ask for a bit too much. We were blowing bubbles, and Amie asked me to make some horse and square shapes. Hmm...I don't think so!

 I'm crazy about her curls.

January 2011

1st
Amie insists on calling the Wii nunchuks "nukkas". "I can't play bowling, it's got a nukka in!"

11th
Amie's learning a lot more about flooding and emergencies now than I had planned on.
(this was due to the floods that devastated the north and south sides of our city)

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I have some cupcakes leftover from the weekend, and I've just noticed that Amie's gone through and licked off all the icing on the mini cupcakes she could get her hands on. Cheeky devil.

What? You mean this isn't how you wear them?

December 2010

1st

Apparently Amie had another baby last night, this one while she was asleep. A girl that she named Elephant (fortunately, it was an elephant toy she was carrying at the time).

She knows where they go.

November 2010

6th
Amie found my necklace with an amethyst pendant on, and has insisted on wearing it. She knows that she has the same name as the stone, and will ask where the 'Nise stone is :)

Being a walrus.

October 2010

8th
As soon as Amie saw I'd painted my nails, she wanted it done. So we've just done her finger and toe nails dark purple. She then asked if I could dye her eyebrows and eyelashes too. I had to tell her not yet, she has to be older.

Pretty pretty nails!

September 2010

2nd
Gotta wonder about a child who says "Good job, mummy!" after you blow a truckload of snot out of your nose. :)

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I think this is a conversation that's been happening between parent and child since we lived in caves.

Me: What a messy house! Who made this mess?
Amie: Me!
Me: Who's going to clean it up?
Amie: You!

So nice of her to volunteer me!

She also uses her adorable cuteness to win me over to her way of thinking at times.

August 2010

3rd 

Amie asked to wash up, so I said she could if she picked up her toys. Rewarding helping with the housework...by letting her do more housework? Works for me!

4th 

Amie just asked if we could get a cheetah.

July 2010

14th 

I was just playing with Amie, and after giving her a playful tap on the butt, she said "hey! you're going to make me ink!" 

Can you guess who's been watching Finding Nemo?