Being a Mom

Caleigh: "When I get tall and get married, I will let you be the mom. Ok?"

Me: "I'm your mom right now and I will always be your mom."

Caleigh: "Yeah, but when I am tall and get married I will still let you be my mom."

Me: "Well, thank you very much. I guess I have nothing to worry about then huh?"

Caleigh: "Yeah, you will have to worry about me kissing a boy!"

Me: in my mind "Oh Lord, help me!"

Fishy Treatment

We have been sorta sickly around here for the past week. Yucky coughs and headaches and sore throats and all that nasty stuff has been plaguing us. When Caleigh gets sick, she tends to start wheezing right away. Thus, we break out our "fishy treatment." This is what Caleigh calls her nebulizer. When she was about 9 months old, the doctors office gave us a nebulizer for the first time. I must admit that I was a bit intimidated by this machine at first. Especially since my husband was the one who got the machine as well as the instructions on how to use it and I had no idea what to do with it. Thankfully, it came with a video tutorial and I can remember watching it with my dad to figure out how to work the thing. I was so scared I was going to put it together wrong or not give it to her in the right way or even clean the thing wrong and cause even more problems. The nebulizer came with a mouthpiece and a mask. The mask has the design of a fish on it and Caleigh called it "fishy". So, the term "fishy treatment" was coined and has stuck around since.

Wheelin'

As we pass by a local doctor's office, Caleigh recalls a visit I had last year in which I had broken my toe. She pipes up and says, "Hey Mom, remember when you went there and you had hurt your foot and daddy had to take care of me while you rode around in the wheelin' chair?"

As I chuckle I told her I remembered very well but the chair is called a "wheel chair". She then laughs at me and says "NO, it is the chair that you can go round and round in, the wheelin' chair!"

Puckets

When Caleigh was two, Santa brought her a small wooden puppet show and a few little puppets. On that Christmas morning, she called it her "pucket show". Two years later, she stills calls it her "pucket show" even though she now correctly calls the puppets by their name, puppets. But to this mom, she will always have "puckets in her pucket shows" for as long as she lives!

Peahocks

She just couldn't get enough of all the "peahocks" roaming around. She even got to see one fly high up into the trees.

Those "peahocks" are just so beautiful!






And yes, she is in jeans, sneakers, a t-shirt, and bows and beads. That's my girl!

Goose what?

As I am lightly running my fingers across Caleigh's back, she shivers and says "Stop mom. You're giving me goosedots!" LOL!

An Injury

Caleigh stepped on something barefooted and got a small cut on the bottom of her foot. It was slightly bleeding and it caused her to have a little bit of anxiety. So, to ease her fear, I cleaned the "boo boo" and placed a Dora band-aid on the bottom of her foot. I knew she probably wouldn't wear it for very long though.
After I got her down off the counter, she tells me

"I'm glad I don't have a spring foot."

Chuckling, I asked her what a "spring foot" was.

She said "You know! It is when you have to go to the hospital and they put lots and lots of band-aids and wraps on your foot and you have to walk with crunches! That means you have a spring foot!"

So I gathered "spring foot" = sprained foot
and that "crunches" = crutches

"I'll Live"

Driving down road, Caleigh swallowed some juice the wrong way and began coughing. After a few seconds Chad asked her "Are you ok? Are you gonna live?"

She regained her composure and said "I'm ok."

A few minutes later, Caleigh asks "What does live mean?"

Chad then tries to explain to her what "live" means by saying that you are living if you are breathing. She seems satisfied with this explination and doesn't inquire about it anymore.

A few days later she is outside jumping on the neighbors trampoline. I call her over to me and she runs over all out of breath and exclaims

"Hang on mom, I am having trouble living!"

Pandas

"Wanna know what pandas eat? ------BABOONS!"

Haha! I bet they would prefer BAMBOO!

First Joke

Caleigh asked me "Wanna hear a joke?"

I say "Sure" expecting her to tell me something that completely doesn't make any sense as usual.

Instead I get the following joke.

"What flowers grow between your chin and your nose?"


"TULIPS!"


It acually made me smile!

Ok, so I laughed!

It was her very first joke!

Headaches

While driving to a birthday party Caleigh asked me to turn up the radio. I told Caleigh that I wasn't going to because I had a headache that I wanted to go away before we got to the party. Her immediate response.....

"Well why didn't you take some I-FEE-FRO-FEN?"

HAHAHAHAHA

What Changes The Channel?

Why, the "MEROTE" of course!

Not the "REMOTE".

I love that no matter how many times I correct her, she still switches the R and the M and calls it the "MEROTE"!

One Republic

Caleigh and I were on the way to meet my sister for lunch when I switched the radio on. The song "Apologize" by One Republic was playing. I saw in the mirror that Caleigh was paying VERY close attention to the song. A part of the song goes like this......

"That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late"

In a very serious tone Caleigh asks me,

"Mom, why are they saying it is too late for Papa Johns?"

I laughed so hard tears ran down my face!