Our new Mom

Today Megan announced that she was "the Mother" and I was her son, and that Mommy was her daughter and Reznor was her little brother. Then she said, "and my husband died. His name was Theodore. He lived for three days but then he died. Don't ask me about him because he's dead and it's rude to talk about it. Go to your room, son."

Later she explained her husband's name was Theodore and he was shot by a bad guy. She also stated that all three of us were in her tummy when that happened. "Did you notice that? Did you feel that in my tummy? It was very loud out there... and very loud in there. Did you cry? I know you did cry."

Later when I was attempting to floss Megan's teeth, she was still pretending to be The Mom and declared "I'm never going to be The Daughter ever again!"

Snap!

This week Megan has finally persevered. After months of practice she is finally able to snap her fingers (on both hands).

In a related story, tonight Megan said, "I want to snap off the TV." NOt sure what she meant, I thought she wanted to turn off the TV manually instead of using the remote control. I lifted her up to the TV and showed her the power button. Megan reached out and snapped her fingers. I chuckled, finally understanding. A few weeks ago I had pretended to turn off the TV by snapping my fingers. Now that Megan had mastered the technique she was eager to try the trick herself.

"No, Megan," I explained, "I was only pretending to snap my fingers, I was just pushing the button all along."

Megan replied, "Ha! You tricked me, right?"

Like, right, Dad?

For the past week Megan has begun ending the majority of her statements with "... right?" She even uses it when it's entirely her own statement and not one I could corroborate. Example: "Backyardigans is my favourite show, right?"

Today I noticed she's beginning her sentences with "Like." Oh god....

Relax and let me tickle you!

On being tickled.

"Don't tickle me there. I signed it out of my tickle list."

On relaxing.

Megan opened the gate at the bottom of the stairs, closed it behind her, and sat down. "I'm just going to chill out here for a while."

United Colours of Benetton

Megan came home from daycare and asked, "Mommy, can you paint me brown all over?"

"Why do you want me to paint you brown?"

Megan replied, "Because Zoe's daddy painted all of her skin brown!" Zoe is Black.

One of Megan's other friends is Indian and Megan has called described her as "light brown."