Tag: jessie

1. We have a tennis ball that hangs by a string in our garage to help us know how far in to pull the car.  The other day Jessie was playing in the garage while the car was gone, pushing the ball back and forth when she declared, “Look mom*!  The ball is exercising.”

2. We have decided to start a weekly ritual of pita pizza/movie night on Fridays.  So all week we have been building anticipation for Jessie by telling her, “Pita Pizza Movie Night is coming!”  Yesterday afternoon Jessie and I went to rent the video and she chose Benji.  She asked to call Drake and tell him about her selection exclaiming, “Hey daddy! We got Benji…we didn’t get the pita pizza movie.”

4. The other day Jessie was in a cleaning frenzy going around our house cleaning everything that could possibly be dirty.  I saw her using her foot and a towel to clean the hardwood floors and stated, “That’s a cool way to clean the floor—what a good idea, Jess.”  She replied, “Well, that’s how the people at Starbucks do it!”

4. I was making Jessie a peanut butter sandwich when she requested, “May I have agave on my peanut butter?  I’m avoiding Stevia right now.”

5. We were talking the other evening about marriage and I asked Jessie if she wanted a husband, and if so, who?  Of course she first mentioned her daddy as a good husbandly candidate but then stated, “Actually, I think I’d like Uncle Dean to be my husband?”  “Why do you think he’d make a good husband?” I inquired.  “Well, I think he’s kinda pretty.”

6. Around Christmas time, out of the blue at dinner Jessie asked, “Are there a lot of Santas, mom*?”  Taken back by her question and stumped at how to respond I said, “That’s an interesting question.  Why do you ask?”  Jessie astutely noted, “Well, everywhere we go tthere’s a Santa.” 

7. While we were in adjacent rooms Jessie called out, “Where are you, mom*?”  I answered, “Oh, I’m in Timbuktu.”  Jessie chuckled and retorted, “Ha!  No, you’re in Tim-buck-three!”

*Yes, Jessie actually calls me “mom”.  I don’t know where this came from, but I thought my name was supposed to be “mommy” at least until Jr. high.  🙂

It has been far too long since I last wrote about our joys with Jessie.  Since our most recent post, our little ladybug has gotten her first haircut, graduated to a “big girl” bed, and is fully potty trained.  It is as though she grew from a toddler into a little girl overnight!

Though I haven’t posted in awhile, I have still been writing down some of my favorite Jessie-isms and stories.  Enjoy!

1)  Jessie was talking on the phone with my mom the day before we took down our Christmas tree and this is what I heard, word-for-word, on her end of the conversation: “I have a Christmas tree, Grammy.  One is Judson’s and one is mine.  I have ornaments on this one and that one.  I have a fish.  He is sitting in a bucket.  It’s downstairs on the Christmas tree down there.”  Then she held up the phone toward the Christmas tree downstairs and said, “I look at the Christmas tree for you!”

2)  Jessie came home from spending time with her cousin Ella and started dancing, then declared, “Check out my moomers!”  I think she didn’t quite understand that her cousin was saying, “Check out my moves!”

3)  Jessie was supposed to be taking her nap at her grandma and grandpa-papa’s house.  Her grandpa-papa went into her room and told her she needed to go to sleep and then proceeded to leave.  Jessie commanded, “I’d like to continue this conversation!”

4)  I was wrapping some gifts and hadn’t realized that Jessie had gotten hold of some of the celophane wrapping and had wrapped herself in it.  She walked into the room and exclaimed, “Look at me!  I’m a gift!”

5)  “I want to share this tangerine with Judson!”

6)  “Everyday mommy gives me a teenie tiny sip of her caffeine!”

7)  Since we go to the local Starbucks several times a week, we have gotten to know some of the regulars.  A couple weeks ago one of the semi-regulars introduced himself to us.  Then last week we saw him again.  Unfortunately, I could not remember his name, so I asked Jessie if she remembered. “Jay,” she replied enthusiastically.  Sure enough, his name was Jay!

8)  “Can we go to America’s Cup Yogurt?  It’s kind of really good!” 

The Jessie-isms keep coming:

1) I frequently eat a breakfast bar in the mornings and will break off teeny tiny pieces for Jessie to enjoy.  The other day when I was eating my Greens+ Energy Bar Jessie declared, “I want a BIG bite, mommy!”  Finding her request to be quite cute, I broke off a little bit larger bite than usual and gave it to her.  She responded with indignation, “Noooooooooo, that’s still a little bite.  I want a BIG one, mama!”

2) I was on my hands and knees, crawling toward Jessie like a tiger in the grass and announced, “I’m gonna get you!”

Jessie quickly countered, “You know, sometimes, sometimes mamas don’t get Jessie Girls!”  I fell over laughing.

3) Jessie saw my small, tote-able Bible lying on the ottoman.  She picked it up and said, “This is a Bible, mommy.  I’m going to read it.”  As she gently thumbed through the pages she said, “God. God. God. God. God. God.”

4) Most of our days include some kind of tackling and rolling around on the floor.  The other day while I was tickling my little lady, she exclaimed, “You’re smothering me!” 

“Smothering”, really?—where does she pick up these things?!!?

5) Jessie’s plastic pup continues to be one of her prized toys.  We were on the porch a couple days ago and she pulled the doggy down the step and proclaimed, “The puppy went jumping down the ‘bumpety-bump’.”

“He did?” I replied.

“Well, actually it’s a step,” she clarified with a smile.

Here are some recent fun Jessie-isms:

1)  While were were driving at night in our car Jessie declared, “Look!  There’s the moon.  It’s going with me!”

2)  After a nice nap, while playing in her crib, I heard Jessie holler, “Christina, come get me!”

3)  Sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, Jessie expressed to her pet African frogs, “Hi froggies.  I’m going to go to church.  They have babies there.  I’ll be right back.” 

4)  Very excited about her new toy kitchen that we put in her room, she exclaimed as Drake was putting her to bed on her first night of kitchen ownership, “I can see my kitchen from my bed!”

5)  Whenever we are with a group of people and Jessie wants attention and a few laughs she will proclaim, “Mickey Mouse has poops!” and then chuckle hysterically.  And if other people snicker, she’ll repeat the statement again and again.

Jessie is at an age where almost every day is full of firsts.  However, I would say that few little girls have to wait until they’re almost two before they get to wear…

So at the prompting of many, I finally decided to try and put pig tails in Jessie’s hair.  Low and behold, we actually pulled it off.  And when I asked Jessie if she liked her pig tales and wanted to keep them in, she replied, “Keep the veggie tales!!!”

Okay, so our daughter only had one face at Disneyland…but it spoke an array of emotion as she enjoyed each attraction. 

Have two fingers ever communicated more?

We sure love our “Miss Two Fingers”!!!!!