Today had quite an interesting "flair" to it. In the morning, Makenna decided to take my IPOD which I'm always leery about and put it in her backpack. I told her I didn't really want it there but she said, "wait mommy, listen....I'll put it in my backpack, take it to the car and when we get there you can say "please" and I'll give it to you....okay?"
I reluctantly agreed. A few minutes later she decided to add another little trinket to her backpack and at that time I asked for my IPOD. She said, "You need to say please." "Please?!" "Okay mom, here you go, see wasn't that easy?" Easy, I thought, to hear myself coming out of your mouth? Not always easy, but usually amusing.
On the way to preschool I heard her talking about the planets and she started to name a few. I wasn't sure if she got this from preschool or if she got it from reading some of her books or cartoons. Either way I decided to go with it and we listed off all the planets (although I had a hard time remembering Mars was a planet and not a candy bar) and I still counted Pluto as a planet - I dont' care what they say. She got pretty good at naming them except Uranus sounds more like "your-eeee-aaahhhs." Plus, when I asked her later what her favorite planet was she decided Uranus was it - of course she picks a funny sounding one that has way too many jokes to go with it, but I digress.
When I picked her up later from preschool I decided to keep rolling with the whole planet thing so we started talking about them again. She then added Planet Mickey Mouse to go along with planet Pluto. I told her there wasn't such a planet and she wanted to know why. I have to admit I was kind of stumped with that one. She also added "space" and "planet" as planets. Those were easier to explain as to why they were not planets.
It was also cute to watch her tell her friends goodbye for the day after I picked her up. She was yelling their names and saying goodbye. Two of them (Aloina and James) came up to the fence and she told them goodbye and that she was going on waycation (vacation) and would see them next week. She stated it like she was informing them as if, "don't worry, I'll be back and all will be alright," kind of tone.
The last thing was as I was putting her to bed talking about the vacation we are taking. She asked, "Where we going mom?" I told her Niagara Falls. She said, "Viagara falls?" I said, "yup" and we'll have a grand ole time!
After student teaching sixth grade, I learned that Uranus is not pronounced the way I thought it was. It's actually ur - an - us, not ur - anus. There was still giggling though since they knew both pronunciations!
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