I was trying to talk to Morgan about Halloween the other day.
Me: “Morgan, Halloween is coming up. Do want to dress up? You could dress up as a ladybug or a pirate…” [both things she likes]
Her: “Can I dress up as a Morgan?!”
Me: “Ummm, we’ll talk more about it later.”
Alexandria Irish Festival
Visiting Great Grandma Lura
Jimmy Buffett concert (her 3rd year!)
Uncle John and mommy at the pool
A Fall ride in the convertible
We’ve had to go to the doctor a lot in the last few days, and yesterday when riding in the car to the doctor (yet again) we heard Morgan talking to herself repetitively in the backseat. We finally figured out she was trying to tell knock knock jokes (both sides).
It was quite a revelation, in that we had no idea she knew what a joke was, let alone a knock knock joke. Here’s a little video.
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We were riding in the car the other day and I heard something I liked on the radio. So I started clapping. And as I was stopping Morgan said ‘No Clapping Mommy!’ I didn’t really give it much thought and Jim and I started talking. Then she said ‘No talking Mommy! No talking!’ I said “Morgan, your Dad and I are talking. Don’t be bossy.” And she said “Don’t be bossy Mommy!” Nice little Catch-22 she set up for me there. I can’t tell her not to be bossy cause that would be bossy of me. Touche kiddo.
Morgan had been wearing my flip-flops last night before bed and she wanted to put them back in our room before she got into her crib. Fine. So she carried them toward our bedroom. But when she got about 5 feet from the door, she put them down quickly, never taking her eyes from the bedroom door, and then turned and ran back to me (I was standing by her door waiting). There was obvious fear in her face as she was running down the hall. She was definitely afraid of the darkness in our room. So we walked back holding hands, turned on some lights, and checked it all out. No problems. But I’ve really never seen her obviously ‘scared’ before.
Quite a few of the older kids in her classroom have recently moved up to the preschool room (which you do at about 33 months). As a result there is a dearth of kids who are in the middle of potty-training. So they are going to move Morgan on to that stage and start working with her. Best I can tell, this involves more frequent trips to the bathroom, more discussion of big girl underwear, more discussion of keeping diapers dry, etc..
Morgan has started repeating EVERYTHING! The other morning we were talking about a new kid in her class, Lawrence A. And she said “no hitting Lawrence A.” And I said “Did Lawrence hit you?” Her: “Nooooo.” Me: “Did you hit Lawrence?” Her: “Yessssss.” Me: some discussion of how it isn’t nice to hit people. Her: “No hitting Clara D.! No hitting John W.!” Me, in my head: are we talking ‘no hitting Clara’ or ‘no hitting, Clara’? That is, is she repeating something that was said to her or is she repeating something she overheard a teacher say to someone else? At any rate, I asked the teachers and they said there haven’t been any problems.