It’s Throwback Thursday and we’re revisiting this post, which is one of the first times I started writing down all of Scarlette’s funny little sayings. It was originally published on October 21, 2013.
Welcome to another installment of Stuff Scarlette Says, which I seriously needed to get a new notebook for this week because now that she is talking all day long, she is stinkin’ hilarious. For example:
Scarlette is SUPPOSED to be sleeping but I heard her yelling “WEEHAW!” And glanced at the monitor to see this.
I have an oversized sweatshirt that I love and wear around the house often. When I went to put that striped sweatshirt dress on Scarlette she said “No Mommy! No! I don’t wan wear YOUR cwothes!”
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Scarlette was having a hard time listening and I said “Scarlette, if you don’t start listening then you are going to end up in trouble.” And Scarlette said “I don’t WAN da listen! I jusht weally want to be in twouble today!”
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While at the store Scarlette was singing Jesus Loves Me to herself. And by “to herself” I mean “requiring several reminders to use her inside voice.” A sweet older lady stopped to make conversation with her.
Random Lady: You are so sweet! Do you know why Jesus loves you?
Scarlette: Yessssssh. Because I da best!
So that needs some work, obviously.
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When we were at the beach a nice man gave Scarlette a beautiful shell that he had found. She looked him in the eye and sweetly said “Is sho pwetty! Fank you SHO much!”
I was so proud of her good manners and then she turned and hurled that shell straight back into the ocean.
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Occasionally Scarlette and I butt heads hard. She’ll deliberately disobey repeatedly and then I’ll lose my patience and raise my voice. I want her to know the value of being able to say that you’re sorry and so whenever that happens I apologize to her. Typically I say something like “Mommy is sorry that she got frustrated. Let’s start over, okay? You work on following directions and I’ll work on being patient and kind.”
Yesterday I was trying so hard to be really patient with her behavior and finally I buried my head in my hands and said “URGH!” She bent her face down next to mine and asked “Mommy? Ah you fwustwated?
I answered her that yes, I was feeling a little bit frustrated and she patted my shoulder for a minute before asking “Do we need to shtart ober?”
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Scarlette’s cousin loves the movie CARS. He also really likes Angry Birds. Scarlette has never seen either of those things. This past summer we were at the store when she started going “Mommy! Mommy Kian wike dat! We get dat Kian! He wike it!” I looked and she was pointing at an Angry Birds game. I have no idea how she picked up on the fact that he likes those things because they live the furthest from us and we don’t get to see them as often as we’d like. But now whenever she sees anything CARS themed anywhere we go she tells me that “Kian wike dat car, Mommy! We get dat Kian!” and is geniunely upset when I won’t buy him every single Cars or Angry Birds themed toy/balloon/birthday card/random-store-display-that-is-not-even-for-sale/costume-that-another-kid-is-currently-wearing that she sees. She does not do this with anyone else that we know.
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Scarlette kept trying to tell me that she wants something specific. I was not sure what exactly she wanted, just that whatever it was, she wanted the YELLOW one.
Scarlette: Da YEWWOW one! I want da YEWWOW!
Me: Honey, I don’t know what that means.
Scarlette: Wellllll, ish a COLOR, Mommy.
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Scarlette had a bad dream. When I asked her what they were about she said “Oh Mommy! I jusht can’t talk about it!”
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I played Jesus Loves Me on the piano for Scarlette -she clapped her hands together and said “Oh Mommy! Dat wash jusht sho bootaful!”
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Bedtime meltdown ensued when we informed Scarlette that she could not sleep with her little pumpkin that she got from the pumpkin patch today. We had a long talk about how pumpkin would stay on her dresser at night and she could have it in the morning. J and I just looked at the monitor and saw her sound asleep, tightly clutching what looks to be a small, pumpkin shaped object.
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This morning I was woken up by Scarlette climbing on my chest and crying frantically “MOMMY! WHA HAPPEN TO MY HAYUND?! WHA HAPPEN TO MY HAYUND?!” as she dangled her limp fingers in front of my face.
I told her that her hand must have fallen asleep because she slept on it funny and she looked at her arm and yelled “DAT NOT FUNNY! WAKE UP HAYUND!”
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So Scarlette and I were just playing hide and go seek. I found a good hiding spot so that I could see her but she spent about twenty minutes looking for me. Finally, she prompted me to come out of my hiding space by yelling “MOMMY I GETTIN DIS KNIFE!” I jumped up and found her brandishing a pretend playdough knife. Well played, Scarlette. Well played.
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