July 13 Cora: “I pressed the not here button,” said to Olivia when she didn’t want to be bothered.
July 14 “It’s Okay. You can give me a kiss tomorrow. Are you fine with that?” Cora said this to me after telling me that I couldn’t kiss her.Aug 1 “I’m not hungry. I’m not going to be hungry until afer dinner,” Cora says at the dinner table (on a regular basis). Later she says, “I meant I WAS hungry. That’s how I say I’m hungry in Spanish.” She ate 2 small pieces of pizza, a bowl of blueberries, 1/4 an avocado, and a glass of carrot juice.
Aug 15 Olivia says to Cora after throwing a brush, “Ha Ha Ha! No back!”
Aug 26 Cora: “That’s all the nutrients that goes through your tummy. The nutrients is very good for you. It’s nice that you grow up healthy,” said while describing a picture that she had drawn (to the left, Olivia later added the green crayon).Aug 29 Cora (as Daphne) says to Olivia (Scooby Doo), “Wait Scooby! That’s deep water! Something tells me there are undertows!”
Aug 29 Cora to Olivia, “How many times have I told you to stop jumping on me?!” Where have I heard that before?
Sept 1 Cora decided to wear her dress-up shoes outside on the driveway, “Because after all they’re mine and I get to make my own decisions.”
Sept 6 Olivia is holding 2 pairs of craft scissors, Olivia makes the large one say, “Me work, me work.” The little scissors then replies, “Yeah Daddy.”
Sept 6 Olivia: “Mommy, you boo me!” Said after I startled her.
Sept 16 Cora: “I’m so tired, I could sleep on an elephant!”
Sept 18 Cora: “You’re the best mommy I ever had and I want you to be healthy,” while giving me a carrot in exchange for a frozen fudge bar.
Sept 21 Olivia: “Mommy, you blue eyes. Me dark eyes, Daddy too.”
Sept 21 Cora: “Call me the queen of grape nuts, cause I like grape nuts!”
Sept 25 Cora and I were sitting at the dinner table while she finished her dinner (she often takes a long time to eat). I showed her a picture from the newspaper of a kid holding a carrot he had grown in a garden at school. Cora remarked that we should grow carrots in our garden too. I told her that we couldn’t because we have too many gophers and they would eat them. Cora said we could build a brick wall and when they try to climb up then we could catch them. When I asked her what we would do with them she replied, “We could take them to the humane society. They could give them to people who don’t want their carrots!”
These pictures are from a trip to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk in July.
