"Peace"

Caleigh watched an old home video of herself from when she was about 14 months old.  It is a video in which she is repeatedly telling me " I love you."  The video melts my heart.  I love seeing it. 

At the end of the video, Chad tells her to tell the camera bye-bye.  Instead of saying bye-bye, she looks at the camera and very clearly says, "PEACE" and laughs. 

Chad had taught our neighbor boys to say this and Caleigh obviously thought it would be cute if she did too. 

Now, she says it ALL THE TIME and she adds to it the holding up of the two fingers in a peace sign.

Today, as I drop her off at preschool, she gets out of the car, with a peace sign on her shirt, and turns and flashes me the peace sign with her fingers and shouts "Peace, love you momma" as she takes the teachers hand and disappers into the building,  I can see and hear the teachers all around her laughing.

I drive away laughing and wonder what my crazy child is going to come up with next!

Hocks vs Peahocks

The family is driving down the road and a giant shadow passes over our car on a very sunny day.  We all look out the windows to see what it is. 

To our amazement, we see a very large hawk that has flown directly between our car and the sun casting said shadow. 

Upon watching the giant bird soar through the sky Caleigh remarks,

"I don't like hocks.  I only like peahocks.  I like it when they are on the ground, though. I don't like peahocks when they fly."


What causes her little brain to think of peacocks whenever we see a hawk is beyond me.  But, when she speaks with such sincerity, it is very hard for Chad and I to keep our composure and not laugh. 

You can check out an earlier Quip on peahocks here.

Hurt Pants!

I can't believe I haven't thought to put this on here sooner!!!!  It is a trademark Caleigh phrase!

When I was younger, if I ever got a spanking, my dad and mom called it "red hams". 

When Caleigh was much younger but could already make small sentences, she told us one day that she did not want to get "hurt pants."  We understood this to mean a spanking.

To this day, Caleigh still refers to a spanking as "hurt pants" and so do we! 

"Bi-knock-clee-ears"

Enough said.

Flipity flips

Flipity flips are known to the rest of the world as frisbees. However, Caleigh's continued love of the character Wubzy from the show Wow Wow Wubzy still provides her with some vocabulary that is authentic to Wuzzleberg!

Idditated

Caleigh shouts out "I'm so idditated!"

I say "You mean irritated?"

She says "No, idditated!"

I ask what that means.

She states, "It's when you are throwing something and your hands get tired!"

Um, ok!

Fencing

Caleigh: "Mom, come in here quick!  Look what's on! Hurry!"

Me: (hurrying to living room) "What is it?"

Caleigh: "It's Olympic Space Hitting!"

Me: (laughing)"That's called fencing, not space hitting!"

Caleigh: " OHHHH!  Well, what is space hitting then?"

Me: "I have no idea!"