isla louise is four and a half! today, or yesterday, or tomorrow... it's hard to tell exactly since february only has 28 days. but now-ish. we do like to celebrate half-birthdays around here, so we will have cake with her birthday buddy autumn on monday, and isla will get a little half-birthday gift that day too.
in honor of this lively little girl, here are a few photos from lately and some of my favorites of the things that have come out of her mouth in the past little while (that i have been quick enough to write down.)
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working at the flower shop in school |
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skuuting on the whatcom creek trail |
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throwing rocks into the creek |
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trying out snowshoes in whistler
here are some isla-isms from the past little while. prepare to laugh! |
- isla, in church before we go up for the eucharist: "are we going to get the christ stuff now?"
- isla: "did you give the library workers a email that i really wanted the cinderella movie?"
me: "yup."
isla: "what is email?"
- isla: "don't touch me! i want you to hold me..."
- isla: "every day i think, who built all these houses? i think about it all day long. who made all these houses? workers?" (walking around the neighborhood)
- isla: "i wish aven's doggies were died."
me: "why do you say that, honey? she loves her doggies."
isla: "WHY would a kid like dogs??"
- isla: "i don't ever want to leave mexico. i want to live here forever!"
- isla: "mama, did you have the same voice when you were a little girl?"
- after reading "how the grinch stole christmas":
"mama, our hearts are just the right size, right?"
- isla: "i don't like those kind of cursive jumpy castles." (re: jump around fun zone.)
- isla: "mama, i know how they make marbles."
me: "how?"
"in a factory. the first person puts the pieces of paper on the [conveyor belt], then they go to the next person, then they cut them in strips, then they sell them in a shop!"
- after eating a sample pulled pork sandwich at the grocery store: "i love meat." (sigh.)
- isla: "mama, our lives are different, right? because you like stuff that I don't like, and I like stuff that you don't like... but some things we like both, because we both like broccoli."
- "mama, you're doin' screen time!"
- "mama, there was a tomato nut stuck in my tooth, and it just blasted out into my belly!"
- working in the living room on a puzzle and singing: "oh god, we lord. oh god, we lord. oh god, we lord."
- "mama, this puzzle says '4 plus.' that's good, because i'm 4 and noah's plus!"
- telling me that she counted in her head to place the numerals next to the pumpkins: "i just did it with my voice. in my heart." (putting hands to her heart.)
- isla: "somebody wrote in my new notebook. somebody scribbled in there! and i said to myself, 'whoever wrote in my new notebook, if it was a grown-up, they should go in jail!'"
- isla: "mama, at nighttime my preschool is called 'catch the moon.' [it is called "catch the son."]
me: "that's a funny idea, honey."
isla: "me and noah solved that mystery! me and noah realized that."
- Isla: "mama, we don't need any more kids in our family, do we?" me: (laughing) "no, i don't think so."
isla: "anyway, if we had more we would have to give one away. and you don't want to give me away, because you love me, right?"
- isla: "i'm hungry for meat!" (after seeing a friend eat some steak her dad had made on the grill.)
- isla: "did god die? because he's in heaven?"
- isla: "i think we should get noah to stop talkin' because he always interrupts me!"
- isla to rosa, at her little kitchen: "would you like some caffeine?"
rosa: "no thanks."
isla: "but i would."
- isla: "i like our house. we never should give this away." (after vacuuming)
- isla: "mama, did god make people?"
me: "yup."
isla: "but does god have any hands?"
me: "um, i'm not sure."
isla: "i think he does, to make people, to make babies."
- isla: "mama, when i grow up i want to be a mama. and a dancing teacher. a dancing teacher mama."
- isla: "mama, i love packin' up things in boxes!"
- on too-big pants from a friend: "i guess we have to put these in the blue bin, until they grow into me."
- singing in the car on the way home from camping: "kate is kind of my friend, kate is kind of my cousin"... then, "people can't live without trees, we need the trees..."
- when isla is done eating, instead of asking if she can be excused from the table, she says, "can i be full?"
- isla: "you can spell my name, 'e-r-a-q' or if you don't want to do that one, you can spell it 'i-s-l-a.' i have two pairs of letters."
- on riding a pedal bike for the first time: "my bike is wanting me to go wibbly-wobbly!"
- on seeing a rainbow in the sky. "i've never seen a rainbow in the REAL REAL sky before! only in books! it's prettier than i could even think!"
- "is this the meantime?"
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preschool picture, age 4 |
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"telephone" |
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