Friday, June 12, 2009

Post it notes and hail and toddlers are weird

I just went downstairs to give my husband a post it note with the auto insurance damage inspection place info.  It was a post it note with Grover, Elmo, and Zoe on it.  They were $1 in the cheapo bin at Target and I thought "Hey, Ellie likes sesame street" so I bought them.  Not really thinking that "Hey, Ellie can't read and has no real need for post it notes."   If she could read, our house would be plastered with friendly reminders like "poop goes in the toilet" and "don't tease the dog with chocolate."  But I digress.  The auto insurance info is because we had a crazy storm blow through last night with golf ball sized hail that did a nice little number on our car.  Geniuses that we are, we TALKED about swapping out the cars when we saw ominous weather coming, but then blew it off, so the good car is the one that got hit while the 8 year old car with door dings and some nice scrapes from my husband dragging the christmas tree off the roof of the car and alongside it sat safely in the garage.  

Yesterday my daughter was running around blowing this weird whistle (kind of sounds like a duck whistle) and then just decided to throw it in the dog's water bowl.  My husband's response was to say "why did you do that?  why would you throw that in the dog's water dish?"  "She did it because she's 2, don't try to understand the rationale behind her behavior, it makes no sense" was my reply.  In the spirit of weird toddler behavior we went to the open gym at the gymnastics studio by our house today.  It was fun but about a half hour into it Ellie said she had to go potty so I took her to the bathroom where she did actually go potty.  As we were finishing up washing her hands she pulled a wet paper towel out of the sink (not ours) and PUT IT IN HER MOUTH.  Again, don't try to understand it, there's no sensible reason to do that.

How about something that doesn't suck?  Have you guys seen the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are movie?  It's a Spike Jonze movie and I think it looks awesome.  

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