Kallie Funnies

Today, Kallie did a couple of funny things that I wanted to get written down--so I figured there's no time like NOW and here they are:

--We were playing her matching game once again. (And, the Beeber got another "No, no!" This time, there was an added finger shake to emphasize the no's.) As I pulled the cards out of the box, Kallie said, "Mommy, wiggle cards?" I was stumped for a second and then realized she meant shuffle the cards! For some reason, she is completely entertained by the wiggling of the cards. I guess if you're 2 and have a limited vocabulary, wiggle is as good a word as shuffle for mixing those cards up!

--Several months ago, I made Kallie some letters for the fridge out of magnifoam. They're way bigger than the plastic ones you can buy--which I love. Kallie's latest pastime is pulling each letter off the fridge and throwing it on the floor. I'm not quite sure why she does this, but maybe it's because she likes cleaning them up? Today, she threw them on the floor, as she usually does...but instead of picking them up and putting them back on the fridge, she decided that it would be way more fun to use her little broom and dustpan to sweep them up. I found her just as she was dumping the letters from her dustpan into the trash. I quickly rescued the letters from the germy depths, amid explanations of "Cleaning, mommy!" I had to do some explaning of my own that the letters are not trash and don't belong in the dirty trash can. Hopefully next time, they'll go back on the fridge where they belong!

--One other thing that I almost forgot! Recently, Kallie has started asking if she can burp Whitney. As soon as Whitney finishes her bottle, Kallie is at my knee, patting Whitney on the back. It doesn't matter what Kallie's doing...playing the piano, feeding her Little People dolls, or reading books, she'll drop anything to burp her sister. Then, when the burp finally happens, Kallie's eyes get really big and she smiles a HUGE smile like, "I am SUCH a good helper!" I love that Kallie loves to help...Now if I could just teach her to do laundry...