oh yaya

Living with a 3 year old will keep you laughing. Aliza, who I pretty much always call Yaya, is a pretty smart cookie. She picks up on a good deal of the adult humor and sarcasm that frequently surfaces in this household. There are 5 adults here all the time and always others roaming in and out as well. We have a good time no doubt.

We are working on getting Norah to say our names and she is walking. Yaya is also picking up on most of the things that we tell Norah all the time. For example "can you say sally?, say sally, sssssally, you say it."

The other morning when I was playing with the girls Yaya said to me, "Miss Sally can you say 'Alishya'?" She is going through a phase where she is starting to not like Yaya as much. She wants to be called Aliza now. I just thought it was so funny that she was testing my language proficiency to rid me of using 'Yaya'.

She also knows how to spell her name, but she always spells it out L-C-A. I say "A-L-I-Z-A" she says, "yes, L-C-A." But in the bathtub one night a few weeks ago, she told Gloria, "Miss Sally says 'A-L-I-Z-A.'" She gets it but not.

Last night Katie and I were out of the house, but Gloria told us this when we got back.

She was feeding Aliza and Norah dinner. When she put the food down in front of Yaya, she out of the norm hit Gloria's hand and said No.
Gloria said, "You don't hit your mommy like that Aliza,"
Yaya said, "that wasn't a hit"
Glo "oh really? was that a love pat?"
Yaya, replies "No it was a sallypat."

Yep that's my name don't wear it out.

She is also a very sweet girl. When I was getting her out of her car seat the other morning at the sunrise service and she was half asleep she said to me, "Miss Sally is gonna cuddle me." So cute. We did cuddle for a while til she was awake and saw fun friends to play with.

She is a funky fresh kid. We have fun.