banana bread

choice abby quotes from the past couple of days:

scene: bedtime, abby gets to choose the song we sing. she chooses "five little pumpkins", but specifies that she would like it to be "five little BIG pumpkins" instead.

me: (singing) "five little big pumpkins sitting on a gate. the first one says, "
abby: (pause) "we're big pumpkins!"
(those are not the right words.)
me: (laughing) "the second one says, "
abby: "we like to live in houses!"
me: (curious as to where this will go) "the third one says,"
abby: "we like telephones!"
me: "the fourth one says, "
abby: (looking around the room) "we like...beds!"
me: "and the fifth one says,"
abby: "we like...books!"

and the song continued and ended as normal from there. that's the first time she's made up her own words to a song...she's pretty good. :)

scene: lunchtime, abby dawdling.
"hey mom, you wanna know what i'm gonna do when i get older?"
"sure."
"KUNG FU!"


we also have halloween all planned out already. abby had planned on being an octopus (i don't know why, so don't ask :) ), but has thrown out that idea in favor of being wordgirl. wordgirl is the main character on a pbs show of the same name...she's a superhero of vocabulary! ian will be playing the part of wordgirl's sidekick, a monkey named captain huggy face. i'm thinking this halloween's going to be pretty good.