Height Limit for Donuts

Lily: (with a donut in her hand) Did you know I'm not three feet tall yet?
Mommy: Actually, you 39 and 1/2 inches. So you are taller than three feet by three and 1/2 inches.
Lily: *thinks* Does that mean I can have two donuts?!?

Update: (after leaving the donuts unattended for a shower-length time period)

Daddy: so, Lily, what do you want for lunch?

Lily: (standing with hands hidden in the doorway) nothing. 

Daddy: surely you want SOMETHING for lunch. 

Lily: (produces nibbled donut in right hand) I'm eating donuts. (Produces left hand) Here is the empty box. 

(Small consolation: there were only two donuts left in the box)

Rubber Ducky, You're the One!

Lily's Instructions: draw your favorite bath time toy. 

The Godfather

Starring Lily Lemmons

Her Father's Daughter

Lily: I am hungry.

Mommy: What should we do about that?

Lily: We should get me something to eat that is not messy so my hands don't get dirty and I can keep playing on the computer. 

Favorite Book of the Week: How the Crawfish Got Its Shell

So all kids go through phases where they want you to read ONE book over and over and over and over...

Lily's book of THIS week is: How the Crawfish Got Its Shell, by Cathy Lowry

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0983514607/ref=redir_mdp_mobile#

She's been running around the house doing things and, when asked why she did them, yelling, "Because IIIIIIII'mmmmm a mosquito and thaaaaaaaaaaat's what I do!"

Also, Lily has started appropriately incorporating the Cajun-French exclamations into her vocabulary--which is adorable. She'll be running along, stumble over something and yell, "Oh yi, yi! Ca fait mal," loosely translated, "Ahhhhh! Ahhhhh! It hurts!"  It's hard not to laugh--she's just so cute randomly yelling in French. 

Jello is even getting in on the book action--she IS hearing this book two or three times a day, whether she wants to or not, I don't know why I'm surprised. When she wiggles into a position that is terribly uncomfortable for me, I say , "Jello! Why you got to wiggle like that!?" To which Eric replies on her behalf, "Because IIIIIIIIIIIIIII am a baby and thaaaaaaaaaaaaat's what I do!"

Overall, it's a super-cute book and very appealing to the pre-school crowd if anybody is looking for something different to give their kids as a gift this year.

Past "books of the week" have included:

And the Train Goes, by William Bee

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0763632481/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1377109632&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, By Don & Audrey Wood

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0859536599/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1377109731&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

Corduroy, by Don Freeman

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140501738/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1377109836&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

Pat the Beastie, by Henrik Drescher

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0761156100/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1377110228&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

Lilyisms: more Louisiana quotes I forgot to post

Mommy: (over the blaring theme song of Chuggington) Ok, Lily. It's time to go. Do you remember how to turn off the TV?

Noni: Wait! Don't turn it off. Peanut likes to watch TV while we are gone. 

Mommy: Poor Peanut. 

Lily: No! Not poor Peanut! She loves to watch Disney Junior!

Mommy: (as we are walking out the door, Peanut staring at us mournfully) Sorry, Girl. I'd change it to the cooking channel if I thought I'd get away with it. 

Lily: Mommy! I need to tell you something. I am already THREE! And I can't fly a rocket ship yet!

Mommy: I think Little Einstein's has set an unfair example for you. Most other three year olds also can not fly rocket ships. 

Lily: When you get married you aren't a daughter anymore. 

Mommy & Noni: (simultaneously) Oh yes you are!!

Mommy: when you get married you go to live somewhere else with your husband but you're always a daughter. Remember how Auntie Kayla moved out to live with Uncle Kendell? 

Lily: yes but she just kept coming back and coming back. ::Thinks a minute:: She forgot she was married. 

Lily: (comes running into the room) Is everything ok, fine and shipwrecked in here?

Mommy: Shipwrecked?

Lily: It means everything is all clean. 

Mommy: I think you meant ship-shape. Shipwrecked is when your boat is broken. 

Lily: Nope. Shipwrecked. 

Whale Sharks, Sugar Bugs, Emeralds & An Old Lady

Lily: If I fell into a whale shark, I'd turn into food. ::thinks for a second:: But the whale shark would be sick forEVER!

Lily: Mommy! Mommy! The Snack Patrol said candy bars and soda weren't yummy or healthy!

Mommy: I don't suppose there's any way we can just forget the Snack Patrol ever said that, is there?

Lily: But Mommy! I love candy bars and soda!

Mommy: do you remember when the dental hygienist said sugar bugs live in our food and we brush our teeth to get rid of them?

Lily: yes. 

Mommy: well sugar bugs really like candy bars and sodas. They always live in candy bars and sodas. 

Lily: ::very seriously:: But Mommy! Some candy bars are good. And some sodas. 

Mommy: You mean the ones you really like, right?

Lily: (Looks at me fiercely as if she can force me to agree with her using only her eyes) Yes, exactly. I like the ones with m&m's in them. They are healthy and give me lots of energy! 

Lily:  Noni has an Emerald necklace and an Emerald ring. 

Mommy: Noni really likes Emeralds. That's why she named me Emerald. I really like Lilies. That's why I named you Lily.

Lily: I really like mommies. That's why I call you Mommy. 

Lily: Auntie Kayla, why do you have those glasses?

Kayla: Because my eyes don't work so well without them

Lily: Sometimes, when I'm pretending to be an old woman, I wear glasses like that.