Come Together.

This is a post I started last week and saved without posting. I'm just going to add to it today and combine a lot of things that have happened over the past week or so.

How old is Mommy?
"2"

How old is Papa?
"3"

How old is Yaya?
"2"

How old is Grandma Nina?
"44"

Who will be the President?
"Gigi."

Are there lifeforms on other planets?
"Uh-huh."
What kind?
"Peanut Butter."

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10."

What are pickles made out of?
"Spots"

Who is going to win the Super Bowl?
"I am."

Who is going to win the World Series?
"Really Giants gonna win." (I will have you know that my child predicted this last week, I am just posting this late)

(Talking about my shoulder) "Wow! Cool armpit, it has lots and lots of freckles."

Why does it rain?
"So clouds start getting rainy. So I don't like water in the cups."

What is a family?
"A rain water glass."
(I think she's a little stuck on rain)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"A cow with a cowboy hat."

What should I be when I grow up?
"A farmer. I mean Wow Wow Wubbzy."

Why did the chicken cross the road?
"So it's all want." (Translation: It wanted to)

What can you hear the ocean when you listen to a sea shell?
"A princess"

Is it Soda or Pop?
"Soda"

Are we humans or are we dancers?
"Humans."
Any explanation?
"No."

Saturday Lucy told me she wanted to show me a magic trick. So she takes two crayons and places one under a scarf and holds the other one like a wand. She says "Mommy, I'm going to make this crayon appear. Abracadabra! Pickles to pickles!" She pulls the scarf away to reveal...a crayon (that she placed under the scarf)! I applauded, she bowed.

Lucy was a sailor for Halloween and to Lucy Sailor = Pirate. So she went around saying "Arrgh!" and "Aye-Aye!" all night long.

When Lucy wakes up of a morning or from a nap she says "I have more injury!" What she really means is energy, but she refuses to be corrected.

Lucy also insists that Donald Duck says "Aw, Phoo-it" instead of "Aw, Phooey."

Last night while at my friend Jon's to deliver a cupcake, Lucy was teaching him how to say his ABC's and every time she got to "...T-U-V..." she would start over again at "A..." Finally I made her step away from the bale loader (if I got that right, you should be so proud) and we got through all 26 letters. Phew...I thought maybe we needed a little refresher.





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Family Affair.

My cousin Sarah started a blog during her pregnancy and now uses the blog to let us all know the happenings of her budding family. Lucy LOVES to look at all of the pictures of Baby Graham, and watch his videos. Everytime she is visiting Gigi, she asks to see Baby Graham. Well, tonight while we were watching some videos of Graham on the blog, and looking at their SUPER adorable pumpkin patch pictures (what a mouthful), Lucy was enjoying herself providing commentary on the videos. Then at the end of our blog-watching she said "Graham is a little fella." I thought this was hilarious, and just had to post about it! She loves Baby Graham! Also, during her commentary I said something to her and she put her hand out and shushed me, so I apologized for interrupting.

Also tonight, she told me she was going to Chad and Mindy's to see Paige. I told her that we were there last weekend but we weren't going there tonight and she informed me that she "can go there anytime I(she) wants." Oh, brother. Teenage years are going to be tough.

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Wisdom in a jar.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
"Um, Beaver. Just big and small like a beaver, a big beaver and a small beaver. Like on Franklin."

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?
"Yes, like czech-czech-czech-czech."

Why are Larry King's shoulders so massive and bulbous?
"So like a cucumber and a turtle. I mean like a tomato."

What should I (Crystal) do when I'm bored?
"Her might cry with a chicken."

If today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow, and when tomorrow comes it is today - does tomorrow every really come?
"No, it's night. It's today today and tonight tonight."

Why do the pretty shoes hurt my feet?
"So, her don't like my stinky shoes. So her look everywhere in here."

Why do the ugly shoes always feel good
"So it's really soft to put on. I like my own shoes."

There you have it! This is the first set of questions answered by the all-knowing Lucy!



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Squirrelly.

Lucy: "Momma?"
Me: "Yes?"
Lucy: "Momma?"
Me: "Yes, Lucy?"
Lucy: "I'm full of nuts."
Me: "What?"
Lucy: "I'm full of nuts, so I need a drink. To get rid of the nuts."
Me: "What?"
Lucy: "I need a drink. *Cute smile* Please?" (Gets really close to my face) "(Whisper) Get up, please. Now."

Light Bulb! Ding!

I have a marvelous idea! I want to know all of those tough life questions that no one has the answer to. I will ask Lucy these questions, and then post the answer on this blog. Either email them to me, or just add them as comments to this post or the most recent post. I think this will be hilarious and very insightful. I have already asked her questions like which came first, the chicken or the egg? She has been very helpful in explaining all of life's little puzzles that I am unsure about. :) Oh the wisdom of a 2.5 year old!

Lucy's answer to Which Came First The Chicken Or The Egg?
"The chicken and the egg."

I can't believe I didn't think of that! Thank goodness, I can rest easy tonight finally knowing the answer to this.

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Oh, What A Night

So Lucy has started the habit of not wanting to stay in bed at bedtime. She gets up at least twice and says that she can't sleep. I'll put her right back to bed and she will get up minutes later and say that she just can't fall asleep. :) I tell her to try a little harder, but usually it takes a song (sung just right) for her to fall back asleep. If you start singing a song she will either tell you "No, not that one" or "Quietly." She is very particular about how you sing her lullaby.

Also, she hasn't mentioned this for a little while, but for about a week she was focused on ghosts. I'm not talking the cute little sheet covered trick-or-treat ghosts. I am talking full-on creepy people ghosts. I have no idea where she learned about them, or why she was so fixated on them but it even started creeping me out a little bit. She would scream in her bed and say that she was "cared of ghosts." She said there was a little girl and a big man in her room and that they followed her to my room and were out in the hallway. I am a wuss anyway, so this I had a hard time handling. Eventually, I would have to stand up and shout "GHOSTS! GET OUT OF HERE, GHOSTS!" This would solve the problem for a little while, but the next night it would happen all over again! I'm incredibly happy that is over with for now at least. Ghosts are not welcome in the Ellis House! So this story wasn't really anything cute she has said, but it is a weird thing for a 2 year old to talk about.

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Goo-goo for Gaga.

A few weeks ago Yaya, Lucy,& I had been shopping. Shopping almost always equals hilarious Lucy-isms.

-While shopping at the mall Lucy asked to see "Mr. Mall." Yaya and I were both confused and told her that we might see him later, but she wouldn't let it go. She then told a sales girl at one of the stores that she was going to go see Mr. Mall. I am still at a total loss as to who Mr. Mall is, but I told her he works in an office and we wouldn't be seeing him. Now, everytime we go to this mall she asks if we will be seeing Mr. Mall.

-On the way home it was getting dark and Yaya was driving. She flipped on the brights and Lucy said "Yaya, keep your eyes peeled!"

-During that same drive home, we were listening to my iPod in the car and Lucy said, and I quote, "I need to hear Poker Face." All day she had been calling her toy kitten Baby Gaga, so she must have been in a little monster mood! :)

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A traffic lesson.

"Red means stop. Green means No."

Whoops!

So I asked Yaya when she got home from work if she could think of some other funny things and we came up with these two:

- Lucy calls Grandma Nina "Sexy Lady." Literally, if you ask her who the sexy lady is, she will reply "Grandma Nina!"

-Last night during dinner she wouldn't eat her hamburger and just kept drinking her milk so I slid it away from her and told her to eat some more and that after that she could have a drink. She asked "Can I have a drink?" I said no, and she said "Yaya, can you tell Mommy to give me a drink?" When I nipped this in the bud she said "Papa, can you tell Mommy to give me a drink?" What the what? She's already figured out that she can go over my head! Later on, she wanted to watch cartoons and I said no, because we were getting ready to go to bed, so she went to ask Yaya and then told me that Yaya said yes. In reality, Yaya had said "go ask Mommy." Sneaky kid.

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Ketchup.

So this is a "get-you-up-to-date" post. This includes a few of the more humerous quotes from the past 2 1/2 years that I can remember, so really, it is probably just from the past 2 weeks :).

-After I was singing the chorus to "Money Maker" by Ludacris, you know "Shake, shake, shake, your money mak-uh!" Lucy started singing "Shake, shake, shake your peanuts. Shake your peanuts!"

-Lucy told me a few days ago that she wanted to be a bed for halloween. Also, she is afraid of cars. Only the wild ones, not the others. When I clarified what the others were, she agreed that she was not afraid of domestic cars.

-I was watching the newest episode of Chuck today while Lucy was napping. After she got up I was finishing the episode while she ate her snack and watched Yo Gabba Gabba, and she came over and asked "What is making all of that rack-rack-racket?"

-Just a few days ago I was sitting in my recliner and Lucy told me to "Move your big bottom so my little bottom can fit in that chair."

-When asking for a snack Lucy said "I need something to drink that is sweet and scrumptious."

-Mommy: "E is for..." Lucy: "PARTY!"

-After singing Jack & Jill a few times Lucy and I "ran" back to her room and she fell FLAT on her face. I hurried to roll her over and said "Are you okay?" she responded "I broke my crown!"

-Lucy says that her only Aunt Tess is her "favorite Aunt Tess in the whole world." She says this about her only Uncle Jim too.

-"Wall-E is a good man" - Lucy

These are just a few I can think of right now. Hope you enjoyed our first post!



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