A Few Funny KZ-isms

Last week, KZ and I were with one of her friends.  The girls were running down the sidewalk on Central Park South playing Red Light/Green Light.  The girls, both 4, stopped to look at a man dressed as the Statue of Liberty.  I know these guys want money, and can get kind of nasty if you don't give it to them.

"Girls, let's not talk to the Statue of Liberty," I said.
 
KZ just rolled her eyes.

"Mom that is not the Statue of Liberty.  That is a man pretending to be the Statue of Liberty," she said. 

They then continued with their game of Red Light/Green Light. 

I guess they told me.

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It's been cold here in New York City -- Chicago cold.  The temps have been in the low teens with wind chills sub zero.  I wanted her to wear her coat, boats, hat, scarf, and mittens.  She did not. 

"KZ, please put on your mittens," I said, while negotiating with her to put then on.

"Mommy, it is not mittens, it is MIT-TINS. Make sure you say the T's and the final S,"  she said.

I just started cracking up.  Soon she is going to be correcting my pronunciation of everything.

Speech therapy is paying off.

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Every now and then KZ still has a night time accident.  I needed to wash her sheets the other day.  While I was putting the sheets in the laundry, she asked me why.

"You wet the bed, Honey.  I need to wash the sheets."

"I didn't wet the bed," she said.

"Oh, really, then who did?"

She thought about it for a minute.

"Jake."

"Really, Jake, not Kaycee?"

Jake is our male Shih Tzu and Kaycee is our female Shih Tzu.

"Mommy, Kaycee has a bad knee.  She couldn't have climbed the ladder up to my bunk bed.  It had to be Jake,"

I loved the logic.

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