trouble!

lela went over to play at reillys' neighbors house.... she was spelling her name with the girl, piper, and playing in their playroom. when she came home, terry asked her how to spell her name. lela said, "s, h, i, t!" i walked to the other end of the house to put some laundry away and when i came back lela was nowhere to be found. frantic, i ran outside and she was ACROSS THE STREET looking to see if the artwork she taped on the neighbors' door was still there! oh my... she got in trouble.

no more naps!

so lela is about 3 1/2 now and it was time to forego naps.... she has always been a rough one in the sleep department and bedtime battles were starting to get crazy to say the least. lela would get up numerous times for every reason imaginable. well, now with naps gone and "quiet time" instituted, lela is lights out at 7pm. magic. when asked what she wants to be when she grows up, lela says, without hesitation, a baseball player. after that, a musician, then an artist. :)

two new funnies from lela

i walked into lela's room and found her sitting on her bed "breastfeeding" pooh bear... feeling like i interrupted something, i backed out. as i was leaving she says, "ouch pooh bear! NO pooh bear. we don't bite. i need to make you a bottle." :) lela walks into the kitchen to find me stuffing some of her old art in the trash. she stops in her tracks and says, "um mom, what are you doing?" caught like a deer in the headlights, i say, "ay, uh, um, ay..." she says, "mom, that is beautiful artwork, what are you doing with it?" i say, "oh, um, i didn't think you wanted it anymore." she says, "i made that. and it is beautiful. it needs to go right back up here." she takes the two sheets of paper with scribble on them and puts them on top of the five other pieces of art on the fridge and says, "there. perfect. now we can all see them... they are RIGHT where they need to be."