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Maggie snippets


You should see how I take notes in order to remember all the crazy, adorable, funny stuff my kid does for these Maggie posts. I have emails in my inbox with phrases like ‘DRY TOWN’ or ‘feet are sweaty’.

What I ever did without my BlackBerry to record these precious moments on my blog, I’ll never know.

So anyway. My kid. She’s the best.

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I’ve mentioned before about how suddenly she’s taken a liking to music that doesn’t involve animal sounds or animated characters. THIS IS EXCITING. Her favorite is Miranda Lambert, and of course she picks the two songs on the CD in my car that are the least appropriate for a 2 year old: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” which has like 3 cursewords in it, and “Dry Town”, a song about beer.

That’s not the awesome part, though. The awesome part is that she identifies the songs within like TWO NOTES. Without hesitation, without fail. The first two notes of “Dry Town” come on and she’s jamming in the back seat, yelling “IT’S DRY TOWN! DRY TOWN!” And she sings it while we’re grocery shopping. With the right notes and rhythm and everything.

She clearly did not get her father’s musical talent (which is like, NONE.) She gets it from me. I can sing. Kinda.

I’m just worried she’s gonna break into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend out in public and say the swears. whoops.

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Maggie is in school Monday, Wednesday, Friday. (we call daycare “school” for whatever reason, I think it started because it was easier for her to say that when she was younger.) She loves school, but pretty much every day now when I go into her room to wake her up, she rolls over and says “We not goin enny-ware today?” and I have to tell her that no, we have to go to work and school. She looks sad.

I know, kid. I wish we could just stay home in our pajamas and ‘hang out’, as she calls it.

But on Wednesdays, I have a card to play: “But it’s PIZZA DAY at school!” and she gasps and says “IT’S WEDNESDAY!!??”

We do this pretty much every Wednesday. It’s like our bit now.

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Okay the next thing in my Crazy Person Notes reads “not nice kitty bubbles”. I’m not 100% sure what that means, other than one day we were headed to my parents’ house and she was talking about my parents cat is not nice. And she wanted to blow bubbles with PapPap.

Sorry, that’s all I got on that one. I need to take better notes.

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She is very good at speaking. She can pronounce complicated words perfectly, such as ‘quesadilla’ and ‘ridiculous’. But she says ‘openin’ instead of ‘open’ and I think it’s the freaking cutest thing I’ve ever heard. I have never, ever corrected her. And you can’t make me.

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She likes to take her socks off and exclaim, “My feet are sweaty!”

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We were at my parents’ house a few weeks ago and she kept putting her feet on the coffee table. I said “Maggie, please stop putting your feet on the coffee table.”

She said, “Dis not a coffee table. It just a TABLE.”

Well then.

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She’s bossy. Dan was playing with her one day, and she apparently wanted him to leave her stuff alone, because she yelled at him, “DADDY! Don’t touch ANYTHING… in da wooooorld!”

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We are in the midst of a massive Toddler-Food-Parent battle. She is very picky about what she’ll eat. Thankfully, she still loves fruit, yogurt, cheese, and peanut butter & jelly. Dinner is usually mac ‘n cheese or some type of noodle. She haaates all vegetables. She gets very little protein that doesn’t come from dairy, and while I don’t want to force meat down her throat, I would like her to at least try it. But we struggle with getting her to eat even the delicious chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A (I KNOW. How can she NOT LOVE THEM?? They are like little, breaded bits of heaven.)

One night we had Dan’s parents over for dinner, and I made chicken pasta. She had some noodles and I put a small piece of chicken in her bowl (so we could bribe her later to eat at least ONE BITE, OMG) I hadn’t even mentioned the chicken to her, just kind of stuck it in there to see what would happen.

A few minutes into the meal, she held up her fork with a hunk of chicken on the end and proclaimed “I LOVE CHICKEN!”

*headdesk*

Dan’s mom said, ‘WOW! Since when does she eat chicken!?” to which Dan replied, “um… like 10 seconds ago.”

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More on the Showing Off For The Grandparents Front: we’ve all but given up on the whole potty training thing for now (figured we’d give her a break since she just gave up her pacifier and her crib all in one week- successfully and without much fuss, I might add.) But potty training is still a frustration because lordy, we’ve tried it ALL. Candy bribes, a sticker chart, big girl underwear, pull-ups… please don’t try suggesting anything else because we have TRIED IT. Right now we just have to wait for her to decide she wants to. And she doesn’t want to.

So it’s been a week or so since we’ve really pushed her to sit on the toilet at all. Then on Saturday, my mom stopped by to play with Maggie for a bit, and she wasn’t there TWO MINUTES and Maggie stops eating her lunch, climbs down from her chair, and says “I go sit on da potty, okay?”

*headdesk*

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When we give her goodnight kisses, she sometimes pushes our heads together and says “KISS TOGETHER!” and makes us kiss. It would be cute if kissing Dan didn’t make me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

(I’M KIDDING.)

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5 Comments


  1. samantha jo campen

    Jan 20 at 5:15 pm

    I liked Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust” and could tell within two notes as well. I guess I’d yell “DUST DUST DUST!”

    So if Maggie is anything like I was, she’ll be a freaking GENIUS.

    *cough*



  2. Belle

    Jan 21 at 9:37 am

    Re music: Our 2 year old Samantha loves a band called the Dollyrots (sort of punk/rock/country if that exists). They have two songs she likes now but before that it was all about the “Rollerskates” song (they covered Dolly Parton’s “Brand New Key” punk-style). She wanted to listen to it every time we got in the car. She wanted to watch the video on Youtube “Please, Rollerskates, please?” (if we were lucky we got the please). At least yours can sing a little; ours chants/moans/shrills, always a beat or two behind/in front and rarely on key.

    My husband (and the Glee soundtrack) now has her in love with Golddigger so I’m remembering the earlier days fondly.



  3. bluzdude

    Jan 21 at 11:42 am

    Seems like the child’s secret goal is to develop a giant welt on your forehead. Or dent the desk.
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  4. Dave

    Jan 21 at 1:55 pm

    Fabulous. I love “Maggie Snippets!” Loving every bit of the above. Kids are so great!

    Mind if I steal the idea, and maybe phrasing, for Abby? I might, you know… (Of course, that would entail actual blogging by me…)
    Dave’s last blog post: Zach is 6 months old



    • Jen

      Jan 21 at 3:08 pm

      Go for it! All kids are giant goofballs and it’s so hard to remember all the things they do- even though we think we’ll NEVER FORGET!- so recording it somewhere is important. I obviously didn’t trademark the concept, ha ;)