3 year old antics

• starts a lot of stories, "when i was a little girl..."
• riding in my dad's van taking the recycling to the bins a few miles away, the car is full of fruit flies.... (yes, disgusting.)  we were talking to lela about that and she says, "yeah, watch out for those vegetable flies... oh, and how about that broccoli fly!"
• tigers lose ALCS playoffs vs. the red sox and lela says with all seriousness, "well, why don't the lions just play the red sox?"
• talks about foxes being in her room often... and needing to shoo them out
• we've started the "nap fairy" that delivers a treat if lela goes to nap/bed without getting up or crying - working so far!
• at gymnastics, i was watching lela with her class from the bleachers and i see her start digging inside her nose with her finger...sitting far away, i can do/say nothing... she keeps digging and making it very, very obvious (did i mention she is sitting in a tight circle with her classmates and teacher?)... she pulls a huge booger out, stares at it admiringly, holds it up to the light, and then wipes it on the uneven bars post.  omg.  all while i could do nothing about it.... i wanted to crawl in a hole.

funny, funny kid

lela and i had a date at the pool today... on our way out the door we snagged a bag of m&ms to eat in the car.  as she was eating one she said, "i suck on them.  that makes them healthy."  :)

she got a new pair of goggles right before we got to the pool which prompted her to LOVE going underwater.  she comes up from under the water for the umpteenth time and says, "i need some nose goggles.... to keep the water out of my nose."

new lela happenings

lela: - smacks her lips when talking and loves hearing herself do that (definitely a teacher's kid/grandkid!) - when she is announcing something she thinks is exciting she uses her best oprah voice, such as "mama, guess what? we're going to the plAAAAAAAAAAAAygrouuuuuuuuund!" with look of shock and all - takes serious all her big sister duties - gets anything we need for estelle when we ask, pushes us out of the way if she thinks something should be done differently for estelle (i.e. we try to give estelle a pacifier, lela whips it out, and sings her a song instead or tucks a musical toy next to her... often with a "no mama") - has a new best bud at gracepointe preschool, her name is arielle, and they are attached at the hip