Song lyrics

We all have the tendency to screw up some of the words to their favourite songs every now and then, and when it happens, we catch ourselves and struggle to get right back to the right lyric as quickly as possible.

The GREAT thing about 3 yr olds is they have NO idea what the words ever really SHOULD be at that age, so when they sing the wrong lyrics, they make it their own and they just continue to sing loud and proud. It's ridiculously adorable!

Here are some of Madelyn's most commonly misquoted lyrics from some of her favourite songs:

1. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues by Elton John: *actual* title

The MADELYN version: "I guess that's what they colour the blues"

2. Private Eyes by Hall and Oates: *actual* line: "You play with words, you play with love"

The MADELYN version: "You play with worms..."

3. Yakety Yak by The Coasters: *actual* line: "Take out the papers and the trash"

The MADELYN version: "Take out the piggies and the cash"

4. Mamma Mia by ABBA: *actual* line: "Oh Mamma Mia, how can I resist you"

The MADELYN version: "Mamma Mia, how can I assist you" (pretty good!!!!)

5. My Girl by Chilliwack: *actual* line: "My girl is just a memory, she's been so long away"

The MADELYN version: "My girl is just a memory, she's been salami"

This morning at Auntie Fran's house....

Daddy takes Madelyn to daycare, and every morning, as he drops her off, she gives him a goodbye kiss.

This morning, when the Roo got to Auntie's house, accompanied by the friends she brought with her (Baby Kitty Cat and Baby Jaguar, as per usual), she saw that one of the other children, Jaron, was already there. So she runs up to him and starts making him pet her friends, and then Daddy says, "Oh, Madelyn! I need a kiss!" Madelyn says to Jaron, "OH! Hang on a minute Jaron! I have to go and give my Daddy a kiss!"

Daddy said she had the biggest smile! Not only is it awesome that she runs to Daddy to give him a kiss, she had to let Jaron know what was happening!

That's my girl!

How I found out about the mailman.

Catherine:
I feel so horrible because so much time has passed and our little girl does SO much, and we just don't always have the time to commit to updating things, but I want to get a few cute little stories out here before they're gone from my memory!

Just about a month ago, Daddy was ready a bedtime story to Roo called Why I Love My Daddy. The story depicts images of a child animal with its daddy, and is accompanied by a line or two, written by real children, of reasons why the kids love their fathers.

On this one particular page, Madelyn showed Daddy, as she loves to do with everyone, who everyone is in the picture by pointing to them and giving them a name.

And on this particular day, on this particular page, Madelyn decided the parent in this setting was the Mommy as opposed to the Daddy, as the title so aptly suggest. "And here is Madelyn penguin," and continued to give a title to each of the other penguins in the background. "This is Baba penguin, and Didi penguin, and Alexis penguin, and Grandma penguin, and Grandpa penguin..."
Donovan:
So, Madelyn finishes going over who each penguin is, and I couldn't help but notice that she didn't give ME a penguin! Not to fear, there was ONE penguin left at the far right of the page.

A big, strong looking penguin, that surely reminded her of her daddy.

"And who is THAT handsome penguin?", I asked her, getting ready to hear my name being called.

"Oh. That's MAILMAN penguin," she replied, and quickly turned the page.

Uhhhhh......

You can bet that Mommy and Daddy had a pretty long talk after THAT bombshell! :)

And yes, this is a true story.

Kitty cat fell on his bum-bum-bum!

Grandma recently bought Madelyn a subscription to Ladybug Magazine. It's perfect for Madelyn's age!

At the back is a comic strip called Molly and Emmett, about a young girl and her cat. Madelyn is in love with this strip, and the day after I read it to her, she was acting it out and reciting it verbatim!

Her favourite part is when a bird scares Emmett the cat so hard, he falls on his bum.

She starts laughing so uncontrollably, she can barely finish telling me what's so funny!

Madelyn: hee hee hee... Kitty cat fall on his bum-bum-bum

She laughs at this until all the air is gone from her lungs, and then proceeds to utter a huge gasp as she refills her oxygen.

It's adorable!

My sleeping beauty

It's just after midnight, so it's officially the last day of January, 2011.

My little Roo is having a restless sleep - just about a half hr ago, she started crying, but she wouldn't open her eyes when I went in to see her. She was dreaming.

We calmed her down, bundled her back up, and she rolled over and was quiet.

Then a few minutes later, same deal.

Rinse and repeat.

This last time, just now, Daddy went in to see if there was anything he could do. Madelyn gave him a subconscious peek into the movie playing in her dream world: "Piggies are (inaudible) on tv."

And with that, she rolled over and fell back into a silent slumber.

Because of this latest and greatest sleep talkin' that she's been doing, I decided I can't rely on just my memory anymore to keep these precious moments emblazoned in my brain, so here is a short list of some of the memories we have in the past couple of years of what our little Roo has said in her sleep:

- her very first instance of talkin' in her sleep, approximately a year and a half ago (wow, HALF her life ago!), was when she was well into her passion for the Mr. Men series. After having watched her Mr. Tickle dvd on repeat on numerous occasions, it's no surprise that her first audible dream had to do with that subject. Dono and I came in to check on a somewhat restless Roo in her bed, and while we were admiring her as she slept, she said, "No more milk Mr. Tickle." So obviously, either Mr. Tickle had already either given her some milk in her dream, and clearly she had had enough, OR perhaps Mr. Tickle was drinking more than his share. Either way, WOW!

- more recently, just after her 3rd birthday, Madelyn received a Handy Manny tool set from Uncle Robin, Taylor and Makenna. She LOVES this tool set. It is very loud. Dono and I don't care for it. ;) One night, just a couple of weeks ago, as we went in to check on her, I unravelled the blanket from between her legs and arms to cover her up, and she rolled over and said, "Handy Mandy" (because THAT'S what she calls her tool set!). Nice to see she's enjoying playing with that toy in her dreams, because as annoying as it is, if it were to ever "break", she'll be able to reconnect with it in the quiet of her mind!

- just last week, I couldn't sleep, so I crept into her room to make sure she was comfy and not contorted in any way. I picked her up (even though I'm not supposed to - she's just s'darn cute!), and her blanket was caught up in her little feet, to which she told me, as she continued to sleep, that she still wanted to wear her slippers. How sweet!

Then of course tonight's episode of whatever the piggies were doing on TV just makes me not want to sleep again - I would much rather sit awake in the darkness of her room and watch and listen to her breathing and wait to hear any more precious little gems she may decide to share about her dreams. I love these little insights into the mind of my baby!

Madelyn and her friend, Kangaranga Roo (sent with love from Grandpa!)

New Year's resolution: MORE BLOG POSTS!

Our little pumpkin is growing up WAY too fast. I mean it.

She will be 3 in just a few short days.

I've already asked her to stop growing, but she doesn't seem to listen. She's a Capricorn. She is inherently stubborn.

Aside from the fact that her and I can have conversations with each other (lately the content has been about Santa and how he ate his cookies and milk and how Rudolph ate his leaf! - she is QUITE the chatterbox, and I love every second of it - she uses real words about two thirds of the time!), she LOVES to sing. And play the piano. And as of late, thanks to Daddy's gift for me, the Roo LOVES to play the (MY) harmonica! Guess that means it's time to buy her her own!

She loves to colour, and is quite the little artist already! Just yesterday she surprised us with a series of triangles she drew (and caught herself off guard with them, too!). She even put a happy face in one of them! I'll have to get Daddy to scan 'em in - they're in her sketch book that she takes with her everywhere (so that whenever she has the urge to draw, she can indulge!).

The latest and greatest in Maddy'isms:

- she can count to 30, most of the time she leaves out 15. I don't know why. But she's very good with her numbers! "One, twoooo, free,...."

- she LOVES her Chipmunks DVD that Grandpa sent her. Classic Disney stuff. She watches that over and over, along with Dora. She has entire scenes memorized, and she will reenact them if the mood strikes. Sometimes it's complete with props. She is amazing.

- she loves to imitate puppies and kitty cats. LOVE this!

- she snores sometimes! (or as she calls it, sleeps with her nose!)

PUUCHINI!!!

It was pretty hot today, so in an effort to distract Madelyn from all the fun stuff in our backyard, I tried to get her interested in eating supper so we could head straight inside to our cool house.

As I took her out of her car seat, the following exchange took place...

Daddy: Alright, Madelyn! Do you want to go in and have BIG NOODLES?!?! (Her term for Beefaroni!)
Madelyn: No! Daddy, I want to have Puuchini!
Daddy (perplexed): Uhhh... sorry, what do you want?
Madelyn: Puuchini! Puuchini!
Daddy (not wanting to seem stupid because he doesn't know what Puuchini is...): OH! You want Puuchini!
Madelyn: No, Daddy! I want to have PUUCHINI!
Daddy: (thinking) Could have sworn that's what I said... there must be some subtle nuance with my double-"u" pronunciation that's causing some confusion here..

Luckily, as soon as we got in, Madelyn was distracted enough with her pencil crayons that I could just make the Beefaroni I'd planned on making in the first place! Whew!

In the meantime, guess what I'm going to look for next time I'm at Safeway!

PS - it is entirely possible that she was just hoping to listen to some opera when she got inside, but we haven't introduced her to Puccini. Probably never will. ;)