Marley Stories: October

Another month has gone by with our silly toddler! Here are some funny things that happened over the last month... 

I noticed a spider on the wall the other day, and asked Jason to kill it. Mr. Spider decided to camp out on one of our picture frames, so Jason took the whole frame outside and avoid spider guts everywhere. When he came back inside, Marley pumped her fists in the air and said, "We did it!!" 

Early one morning, Kenzie was playing on the floor in the living room while I got Marley out of bed and changed her diaper. Then Kenzie made some noises and this conversation followed...

 Marley: "Listen. I hear Kenzie."

Me: "I hear Kenzie too."

Marley (sighs): "Yeah, She's crazy." 

We try to skype with my parents once a week, and Marley LOVES it. I turned on my laptop the other day to work on something and Marley walks up, furrows her brow, and asks: "Where's Grandma? And Papa?"

I finished putting some butt paste on Marley during a diaper change and she goes, "All better! Thanks Mommy." 

I was in the other room when I heard Marley say "Try this Kenzie, it's yummy!" I run in, thinking I'm going to find Marley shoving cereal in Kenzie's mouth. Instead I find Marley giving her sister a Lego ice cream cone.  

Early one morning, I carried Kenzie into Marley's room to change her diaper. (I already knew Marley was awake, because I had heard her talking.) After I changed Kenzie's diaper, Marley asked if Kenzie could come sit on her bed. So I laid Kenzie on her tummy inside the crib and left to get my camera. As I was walking back I heard Marley say, "Here Kenzie. Try this bear." (And then she handed Kenzie her teddy bear.) Then she shoved a blanket in Kenzie's face and said "Try this blanket!" (See Photo Below)

While I don't really find this cute, it needs to be documented. We are in the heart of "terrible twos" and as a result, Marley is pretty whiny and defiant at times. When she doesn't want to do something she says "I'm not..." followed by what you're trying to get her to do. 
Examples: 
I'm not take a nap.
I'm not change a bum.
I'm not go inside.
I'm not pretzels.
I'm not George. (as in the monkey)
I'm not brush your teeth.
Etc. 

Marley is big on opposites. Mostly "fast" and "slow." Lately she has really started to hate it when I wipe her face after eating, so to make her not so mad I would whisper and say I was being soft. Then she would get a big grin on her face and whisper it back to me. Well one day after whispering "soft" to me she exclaimed "HOT!" I was confused, thinking to myself that wet wipes weren't hot. Then I realized that she thought the 
opposite of soft was "hot" aka "hard." 

One of Marley's favorite movies right now is Cars. We took it with us along the drive to California last month, and while she was watching it in the car I overheard something funny. During the beginning when Mater and Lightning are introducing themselves to each other, I heard her say "And I'm Marley!!" Silly kid. I've since noticed that she does this while watching any show where someone introduces themselves.