It's been a fun fall so far with our crazy "gulls" (that's how both of them say "girls"). We have done all the great stuff that comes with fall...pumpkin patch, apple "picking", corn maze, etc., etc.,....I don't really know the best way to organize all of my little fall stories since I have just typed little clues into text messages on my phone so I remember to post it on here at some point! I guess I will sort them by each "gull"...
We'll start with Melanie (or "Mal" as Meredith calls her). She has been Mommy the last few weeks, taking baby dolls with her wherever she goes, to the tune of she brings the baby pack and play with her to Mom Mom's house so that her babies can take naps, and puts them to bed every night before she does. It's really funny because they are all named Melanie and Meredith (and it gets kind of confusing when she is trying to talk to us about them, because she'll be using their names and we will think she's talking about the real Meredith), except for one, whose name is Katelyn. She is such a good little Mommy! Melanie is also getting an attitude....which concerns me mainly because if she's this attitude-y at 4, how will she be at 13? Anyway, Eric got home from work the one night and she followed him upstairs to talk. He came downstairs laughing and said he had something to tell me, but I had to promise I wouldn't get mad at Mel. I said okay, and he told me she told him that "Mommy is getting on my last nerve today!" What a little jerk! But I did think it was pretty funny because I have said that to her before! Melanie has also become a wonderful scary story teller....she gets a flashlight in her face, and tells "scary" stories...her favorite is, "It's a dark and stormy night. Meredith wanted a ba ba, and when Mommy went to the refrigerator.....there was....NO MILK, AHHHHH!!!!" Hilarious. She also tells a similar version about Mommy being out of diet coke! Mel had a blast when we went to the corn maze the other night, too....she lead most of the way and helped find our way out! She is really the sweetest little girl...
She is still really in to music...not kiddie music, of course, but one of the girls' favorite songs lately is "Only Prettier" by Miranda Lambert...Mel was sitting in the tub the other night singing the line, "I'll keep drinking, you'll keep getting skinner" over and over again, but she kept saying, "I keep drinkin', you be gettin' skinnier"....it was really cute. She also still loves Taylor Swift, and we were listening to the radio the other day and her new song came on. Melanie is jabbering in the back about how "This is the song that Taylor Swift wrote about Taylor Lautner" (there's my 13 year old again....thanks Lulu!) What 4 year old talks like this?? Then, her sister is sitting there repeating, "Taylor Lautner, Taylor Lautner"...these kids are crazy!
I guess I can move on to Meredith now....the kid is C-R-A-Z-Y. Crazy. There is no other word to describe her. I don't know where my calm baby went, but she is long gone and I don't think she is ever coming back. The last couple of nights she has been waking up asking to "seep in Mommy's room, I seep in Mommy's room" and when you hear your sweet little (yet still crazy) baby crying from her room, "I want you Mommy...I want you Mommy!" you pretty much just give her whatever she wants! The only issue....she's like the freakin' karate kid when she sleeps. Randomly she will just fling her legs up in the air and roundhouse kick one of us. I guess we could also call her Baby Chuck Norris. She does this ALL NIGHT LONG! If I wasn't so tired, it would be HILARIOUS. And we can't figure out how someone who is only 3 feet tall can take up an entire king size bed. She's crazy in all aspects of life, not just her sleeping habits. Anytime she eats anything, she has to have a "fock" which is Meredith for "fork". I try and limit her to spoons because she runs around withe them. She needs a fock for everything....gummies, raisins, goldfish, etc....everything. And, if she has 2 different foods, she needs 2 focks. Meredith also has a new phrase she says...."Be cool." She says it to all of us...."Be cool, Mommy, be cool." Mere also has this little saying she does with her Mom Mom....Mom will say "Hello, good bye, go stick your nose, in an apple pie!" And she will repeat every word, but when she gets to the apple pie part, she goes "apple PIIIIE!" She also loves this Halloween decoration we have with a frog, and instead of saying " an icky froggy" she calls it "an icky fucky"...
She was also super funny at the pumpkin patch....we were there searching for pumpkins, Melanie found a beautiful, big, round one, and Meredith only wanted a baby pumpkin...so that's what she got. But she wanted me to stick her Minnie Mouse decorations in to her pumpkin, so she has this teeny tiny pumpkin with a huge Minnie head and feet!
I swear she has a little bit of Italian in her with her accent....every morning she runs up to me..."I picka my clothes, Mommy....I picka my clothes!" Or at the corn maze the other night, she kept running ahead of us shouting, "-isa way, -isa way!!" It was really cute, but I am still kind of amazed that we didn't lose her in the maze with the way she was running ahead of us in the dark!
Oh, and this cracked Eric and me up last night....the girls were talking about trick-or-treating, and Meredith got in my face, and said, "I got a wock" just like Charlie Brown! She is SO funny!!
I think I got everything covered....oh, except for the fighting in our house. The big fight last week was about the t.v. Meredith wanted to watch "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" and Melanie wanted to watch "Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation." I suggested maybe, perhaps, a HALLOWEEN movie since, oh, I don't know, Halloween is right around the corner?? But I got shot down, and Melanie conceded to watching the Easter "Bagel" first and her show second, because she figured Meredith would just scream through Phineas and Ferb.....she's such a good big sister!
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