My lil helper and the things they say....

{I took this as Kate was leaving for school today.  We love to try to make her "uniform" a little cuter:) They have a dress code and we are very creative with it sometimes.  I plan to do a post on that someday. Kate's blazer is made by Soft brand clothing. It is comfy and cute and she loves it! I got it here.}

Kate says and does the cutest things sometimes.  And I know that I am going to forget them.  For some reason, I have been recalling all the little "-isms" the boys had when they were little.

Whenever Will was teasing or joking as a toddler, he would say with a jolly grin, "I'm just kiddin and playin."

Harry (when he needed some privacy--usually to go to the bathroom) would say, "Don't bodder (bother) me.  Go bodder (bother) yourself."  We still all say this as a joke in our family to this day.  And we say "bodder" instead of bother!

When Harry was first learning to talk, he would refer to everything by what it did.  A horse was a "neigh, neigh."  He called cars and trucks "go-go's."  Fish were "glub glubs."  Dogs were "ruff ruffs." It was so cute.

Harry also did not know what a senior citizen was and one day he said, "stop wiping your nose on the senior citizens."  We cannot remember the connection there but agin we reference it to this day!

So last week, we were watching Dolphin Tale for family movie night.  There is a very sad point toward the end of the movie when they all think the dolphin "Winter" is going to die.  It was very quiet and Kate said, " Wait! Where's the happy ending?"

She was totally serious ...like wait a minute this is not supposed to be sad.  It made me realize how young our children learn about "happy endings" in movies.  

Another sweet thing Kate did this week was on Sunday morning.  Before Mass (as I was getting dressed), Kate made all the beds, straightened all the bedrooms and cleaned the playroom.  No one asked her to.  She took me around and showed me all the rooms she cleaned.  She had even picked up Harry's dirty clothes off his floor  (he is our messiest peanut) and put them in the washing machine! She is very much a little helper.  She loves being able to do things on her own.

The other day when Kate was making a horse craft at school, she called the mane "a manger"  She makes little vocabulary mistakes like that all the time.  They give me such a chuckle but the boys can be kind of harsh correcting her.  I try to remind them that they did that too.  It is sweet and so very fleeting.  Once again I wish I could freeze time because Kate is just in the sweetest lil phase right now.

I know there are a million other cute little things she says.  I write them down and then lose the papers or forget to blog about them.