Incognito

You know, the universe knew what it was doing when it made children so stinking adorable and charming.  Just the second you are ready to blow your fuse and sentence your kid to their room for the next 12 years, they crack you up.

Bianca has been on a spy kick.  I don't know where she got it but she won't leave the house without her hat and sunglasses.  She creeps and slinks about, running from the door to hide behind the car.  Oh, correction, I mean our super spy-mobile.  Every button in the car is a super secret spy button. Insert sound effects: pssshhuuuu-pshhhuuuu!!!  (Oh god I need to get to the punchline b/c she just dissolved into whiney-cry-spygirl because I said she could not jump off the furniture.....)

So we leave the house the other day on a covert mission (going to school).  I said "You're incognito!" and explained what that meant.  She got to the car and caught a glimpse of herself in the window.  She flattens herself against the side of the car and whispers in breathless amazement "WHOA!  I'm so incognito, I didn't recognize myself!"

Tidbits.....

Last night after her bath, Bianca looks at her hands and says "Pruney!"

Ponders for a moment and then says "Speaking of 'pruney', I like prunes!"

Gotta love the deep thoughts of a 4 year old!

I Smell A Smell....

...says my daughter as she comes downstairs this morning. I smell it too, as I cooked something in the crockpot overnight. I ask her "What do you smell?"
Excitedly she answers "Ice cream! And marshmallows!"
Hmmm, interesting....since I was cooking pork tenderloin with vidalia onions and roasted red pepper vinaigrette.....
Wasn't sure it was possible for the nose to have it's own imagination but leave it to my daughter to have that!

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Last night, there was a fly buzzing around her and she says "Shoo, fly!"
"Did you know there is a dessert called ShooFly Pie?" I ask her
Wide eyes and she replies "Does it have flies in it??"
"No" I laugh.
She thinks for a moment and then asks "Does it have shoes in it?"

Princess of Spin

My daughter, Bianca, is almost 5 years old. She is a spin-artist like you cannot believe. The things she says to me with such serious conviction absolutely crack me up. Here's a conversation we had tonight. She was almost done with dinner and I put a cookie next to her plate. She immediately picked it up and put it to her mouth.
Me: "Please finish your dinner before you eat the cookie"
Bianca: (with cookie still on mouth) "I'm not eating it, I'm just warming it up!"