Things they say

These girls crack me up. They definitely make every day entertaining. I've been trying to remember to write down some of the stuff they say, here's what I've gotten recently.

Teresa:

We were at Target a few weeks ago with Mina and her mom. When we walked past the women's bathing suits Teresa pointed at the bikini tops and said "Mom, look at all those swimming nipples!". We started laughing, which she loved, so when we passed the bras she said "look at all those colorful nipples!"

One morning we were all in our bed right after the girls woke up and T just turned to Marc and said "Dad, did you know my little stister (not a typo, that's how she says it) Nora used to be in Mommy's tummy?"

We had this conversation coming in from soccer practice one evening.

"Mom, I see the moon! What's the moon trying to tell us?".
                     "I don't know, what is the moon trying to tell us?"
"It's telling us that it's time to go to bed!"

At lunch one day, holding up her middle finger: "Wow, this finger is really long".

Our conversation after her soccer game on Saturday:

"Teresa, what do you like about playing soccer?"
               "Umm, I really like when you say woo!"

At least we know she can hear us cheering for her :).

Marc was telling her that Nora would be big like her someday. She responded "Dad, I'm just medium-sized!"

I was looking at her picture from nursery and complimented her on the nice A's and T's and R's she had written. She responded "no Mom, they're not nice, I just drew some really SCARY A's and T's and R's". She's really into Halloween right now, so everything has to be scary.

I asked her what sorts of things she thought she was good at. She listed a lot of normal things (coloring, being a princess, playing soccer, etc.) but she also said "I'm good at making wishes, and I'm good at making raindrops. And I'm good at being a little punk".

Someone knocked on our door today, and while T was waiting for me to open the door she was saying to them "We're coming! We did not forget you! We know you are knocking on our door!"

Nora:

Nora is talking more and more each day, she pretty much constantly amazes us with what she can say. She can count to eleven! Most of the credit goes to Teresa and Yo Gabba Gabba, I think, for that one. She loves to do some back and forth counting where I'll say 1, then she says 2, I say 3, etc, but then she gets excited around the number 5 and finishes on her own really fast.

She loves to sing songs, I'm always surprised by how well she remembers songs. Her favorite to sing is from Yo Gabba Gabba, she'll say "I tied (tried) it, I yike (like) it! I tied it, now I yike it. I yike it!" Over and over.

Tonight she was obviously concentrating on something, so I asked her if she was pooping. She said "Yep. Right here", while pointing at her bum.

She has to know what everything is, it takes forever to read her any sort of book because she points at everything and says "what's that?". We were reading a Halloween book tonight and she pointed at a witch and asked "what's that?". I said "It's a witch" and she responded "Oh. A bitch!". Oh dear.

This one's not a quote, but yesterday in the car T was singing some little song at the top of her lungs. I looked back and saw that Nora had her fingers stuck in both of her ears, trying to block it out. So, of course, I snapped a picture of it.

And here's some more pictures of Nora. The second one is a little fuzzy, but it's the best shot Marc got of her whole outfit. She is such a little ham, and is almost always glad to smile for the camera and get her picture taken. I made her skirt too long originally, so I cute some length off and made her a little matching headband to go with it. Unfortunately it only lasted on her head for about as long as it took to get these pictures.

Soccer

Teresa started playing soccer this past month. She has been loving going to practice each week. If you're ever in need of a reason to smile, you should go find yourself a 3-4-year-old soccer match. They are hilarious. T does a pretty good job in practice, (well, the first half of practice. Then she gets tired and distracted) she gets so excited when she gets to kick the ball in the goal, she throws her little arms in the air and yells "I scored!" over and over.

She didn't want to smile at first because her cleats were out in the car.

After a whole ridiculous run around to get the correct sized shin guards, she wouldn't even wear them, because her socks covered up the pink. It worked out, though, because then Nora got to pretend she was dressing up for soccer too. Nora is pretty jealous at soccer practice, poor babe, she isn't too shabby at kicking the ball around herself.

She had her first game this week. The little ones are so funny, they don't quite get the concept of the game yet, but pretty much just chase the ball around and keep kicking it whatever direction it is headed. Teresa spent a lot of the time being a baby bird and just flitting around the field, instead of following the ball.

This is not an uncommon sight - T just flopped on the field instead of being aware of the ball. Her poor coach has waaaaaayyyy more patience than I do.

Twice she was paying enough attention to actually get to kick the ball a bit during the game. Not for long, though, because after a few kicks she had to come running over to the side to tell me "I kicked the ball!" and give me a high five.

 But most of the game was spent more like this. What can I say, she's a free spirit.

Cute little mid-game team huddle.

Isn't she so cute! I love her.

Some best friend hugging mid-game. 

The whole team:

That's my girl.