CHEF MIMI

For quite some time now, Mimi has been helping mama in the kitchen and she has been wanting an apron. Today while grocery shopping, mama found one and bought it. It really made Mimi's day. Now mama has to go back and get another one for her future little sis. Mama tries to buy two of everything but sometimes suffers from senior moments. Oh well, what can I say?

HOOTERS

Mimi's class has been studying nocturnal animals. So when mama went to pick Mimi up from school today, she walked into a classroom full of hooters.

HIDE AND SEEK

This is Mimi's version of hide and seek.
Mimi: Papa, you count to ten while I hide right here, ok? Then you try to find me. Are you counting?
Papa:Ready or not here I come!(he then of course finds her)
Mimi: Papa, you hide behind the door. I'll count to ten. One, two, three......., ready or not here I come!
Mimi then flings the door open quite hard (she never does anything gently) nearly whacking papa in the family jewels. OUCH!

ANGELS

After being a little turd this morning, her and Blake went to the park for lunch before he had to go to school. Mimi then came home and had a long, long nap. She's back to being our little angel again. Kids, go figure!

Here she is with her papa watching "The Little Mermaid". She practically knows the whole dialoge by heart.

UP A TREE

This morning before Blake had to go to school, he came over to play with Mimi. I swear to goodness that Blake is the brother that Mimi will never have unless a miracle occurs (mama is not able to have babies). They play, then fight, then play again. Plus they both are sooooo very competitive with each other.

At one point Mimi was being a real turd (as my friend Keri would call it), so as a result, Mimi was put in her "timeout" chair. Boy is she a reeaalll Chengdu Chili Pepper! Hot and spicey!! Egads!! Mimi told mama "You need to go climb up a tree and stay there!!! I'm mad at you!!!" I don't know where she got that one from but at least you know where you stand with her. Maybe I'm going through the "terrible two's" at four years old. When she was 2 and 3 years old, it was a breeze, now at 4 years old, she can be a real angel at times then she turns her head 360 degrees and turns into a real turd. She's probably making up for lost time. Who knows?

HOP, SKIP AND JUMP

Mimi's new thing now is skipping. She's a skip'n everywhere! She still loves runn'in too. That, I don't think will ever stop.

PHONE BOOK

Not long after moving here to Washington, mama received a small phone book from our fair city. It is full of coupons and such. It also has a place for phone numbers. Mama wrote a list of all of our friends names and numbers. She wrote only their first names not their last. Don't know what came over her when she went to write down papa's new phone numbers. She wrote down his FIRST and LAST name.

When papa saw what happened, he let her have it! "What's the matter?! Don't ya know who I am by now?! You wrote everyone else down by their first name, but with me, oh noooooo, you have to write the WHOLE NAME, FIRST AND LAST! Look here, you wrote Greg Putney! You wrote everyone else is like Maggi, Sandra, Allyn, Teri etc...... but me? Noooo, it's Greg Putney!"

Oh well, Que Sera Sera. I must have had a "senior moment". Needless to say, I'm writing a new phone book and having a good laugh as I do it.

Mama will never, ever, be able to live this one down for a long, long time to come.