Kids say the darndest things

I have a two year old niece and lately she has been saying the darndest things. She watches a lot of movies mostly because they help her fall asleep. Her favorites are 101 Dalmations, The Lion King and Mighty Joe Young. Her titles for them are "Dog, dog movie", "Lion movie" and "Joe movie." I can't even tell you how many times she has watched these movies but it has come to my attention that maybe she has watched them too much because she has been quoting them. Now, I don't think that she knows for sure that she is quoting them. She just happens to be in that stage where she hears things and repeats them back later. (Which is actually kinda bad because she has picked up some phrases that we don't like her saying. Like telling everyone to "shut up" when they are doing something that she doesn't like. I also think she might have said the f word the other day, but I couldn't be sure since it was said in a mumble.)

I really want to catch some of these on video. The cutest ones are when she says "tastes like chicken" whenever she eats something. Which of course is from the Lion King scene where Timon and Pumbaa are trying to get Simba to eat grubs for the first time. And the other is jumping in front of you screeching "you found me." Which is from Mighty Joe Young. If you don't know the movie, Joe is a giant gorialla who likes to play hide and go seek and when he finds someone, they jump out of the bushes and yell "you found me."

Another thing she has picked up recently may in a sense be my fault. Recently she has started to realize that my younger sister and I listen to the Jonas Brothers. It has gotten to the point that when the song "Fly with Me" comes on my niece recognizes that this song is the 'Jonna Brudders'. This I find endearing. However my sister and brother-in-law find it annoying. My niece also has the habit of liking to call people. We have given her an old cell phone that doesn't work so that she can make all the 'phone calls' she wants. Lately, when we ask her who she is talking to on the phone, instead of the normal people such as grandma (Ama), grandpa (Papa) or her parents she has been 'calling' the 'Jonna Brudder'. the other day she actually picked up my cell and asks me "Call Jonna??" I actually laughed at this, because I hadn't even coerced her into this.

My sister says that with the whole Jonas thing that I 'brainwashed' her because I used to tell her everytime a JB song came on that it was them and that is why she recognizes certain songs. But then explain to me how (even though my sister and I have no posters of them on our wall) how she managed to realize that the poster of them at Burger King's drive thru was them. Seriously we pull up to the drive thru and there was an advertisement for the JB world tour sponsered by BK apple fries. And I turned to my mom and said while laughing, "Mom, look." And she turned and said, "How funny. Even in the drive thru I'm surrounded." I rolled my eyes, because she isn't surrounded by pictures or posters of them, only their music. And only on occasion. Then my niece from her car seat says, while pointing at the sign. "Jonna Brudder." My mom and I share shocked glances before bursting out laughing.

Seriously, she says the darndest things.

One more short story before I peace out.

Today we took her to the mall while her parents were at work. While we were leaving the mall and walking towards the car she asks, "Jonna Brudder in car?" Which in two year old talk means "Can we listen to Jonas Brothers in the car?" This is the first time she has requested to listen to their music. Usually she only wants to listen to the Lion King soundtrack. (The Broadway Version.) Trust me, as soon as she hears that opening of Circle of Life, she knows what's playing. It's like "Na Swavena..." "Lion King." Yeah, she's that smart.

Anyway, just wanted to share some tidbits. That girl says the darndest things.

Wake up call, thy name is cat.

At about 5:30 this morning my cats (or in actuality it was only one of my cats) decided that it needed to be in my room and proceeded to meow and scratch at my door. I was not in a mood to get up out of my cozy and warm bed to open said door so I decided to ignore him. However, after several minutes of him scratching at the door he began to scratch at the carpet, as if burrowing under the door was a plausible option. Since there is already a sizable hole in my carpet (which my mother is not pleased about) I decided I had to let him in before he caused more damage. Now I thought that he just wanted to be in my room and that he would curl up at the end of my bed and I would be allowed to return to my peaceful slumber. Obviously my cat had other ideas in mind. He jumped all over my bed trying to find a comfortable spot and then when he had located one, he only stayed there for a few brief moments before he was up prancing around again. Then he jumped up onto my headboard, then leaped to my dresser knocking items over in the process, then he finished the circuit by returning to the bed landing on my back. After doing this two more times I picked him up and tossed him off the bed. (Softly of course......) He stayed off the bed, but then he spent a few minutes trying to get the closet door to open. What he wanted in my closet I don't know. By this time it is nearing 6 and I have yet to fall back asleep. I try unsuccessfully for another half hour or so before I finally gave up and turned to my computer. I don't have to be up until 9:30, so I still have two hours in which to fill. Hence this early morning blog.

I kicked the cat out of my room 45 minutes ago and he is once again outside my door meowing in his 'pleading' meow. I don't know if I should let him in a second time. He is a bit of a terror this morning. And I would bet that he really just wants me to get up and feed him, or maybe clean his litter box and I wish to do neither of those things this early. Although at the same time, his meow is such an annoying sound I may just let him in to get him to stop. It's a dilemma really.