So now that Anda is a big 3 year old, I thought it was time for another edition of “Anda Says.” I’m not really a sentimental mom, so I don’t feel equal to writing a long, drawn out description of my daughter at this age. But I hope this post will offer a little glimpse of who she is right now.
It’s really hard to keep track at this point because every day is filled with funny things she says, but here are a few recent Anda quotes I have managed to remember.
Anda: Why Eugene calls Rapunzel “Blondie”?
Me: That’s a name for someone with yellow hair. Yellow hair is called “blonde” so he calls her “Blondie.”
Anda: I have brown hair. What’s my hair’s name?
Me: Brunette?
Anda: Yeah.
Anda: What do you smell like? [Which we think we figured out means "What can you smell right now?"]
Anda [eating jellybeans]: Mmm. This one tastes like jelly.
Dan: What does that one taste like?
Anda: This one tastes like beans!
She is also the only one who has provided Baby Lilah with nicknames--and plenty of them. Baby Lowly, Baby Ly-Ly, and Bubba Luh-Luh are the most common.
Anda: I like Baby Lowly’s face.
Hannah: Yeah, she’s cute.
Anda: She has a mustache.
Anda: What’s that?
Me: That’s a koala bear.
Anda: Korala bears eats noodles. Did you know that? Macaroni noodles.
Anda [drinking a carbonated drink or eating something spicy]: That’s spicekee to me.
Anda [going outside and seeing the work Dan had done on the yard]: Well, well, well. I can’t believe it.
I know there are more, but I am not good about writing them all down immediately, so they have been forgotten. That may be Dan’s best argument for getting me a smart phone–I’d be able to record this stuff on the go.
I also think it’s worth recording that she has several imaginary friends. The most prominent one is named Sallymenders. Anda is surprisingly consistent with her details about Sallymenders. She has dark black and dark white hair, orange eyes, is little like Anda, and is either 3 or 5. They get along famously.
Some other characters we’ve heard of are Rantall (her cousin, who is yellow), her brother John (he had a green mustache, but it has recently become purple), her “fretend” [pretend] Grandpa and Grandma (who live at Home Depot, I think–at least, they are there whenever we go), Aura (who I think is a mispronunciation of Aurora [Sleeping Beauty] and is often seen with Sallymenders), and a slew of others who seem to disappear after one acknowledgement and who often have those Tolkein-esque names that I can’t remember.
She is becoming more social with real people too, for better or for worse. Adding other people’s kids to our day is certainly…interesting. Here is what happened at her play date yesterday. (That’s styrofoam packaging. They were making it “snow”.)
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She has always loved spending time with her cousins, too. This is her and Tylar at Lilah's blessing barbecue.
And she's getting better at riding her bike. She could pedal and she could steer, but now she's learning to do both at the same time. What a big girl.
We even talked her into getting her hair cut the other day. She looks so much older, but I love it.
And finally, I did a little interview with her the day after her birthday. I hope to do this every year from now on, maybe even until she moves out. I think they will make for some fun memories.
I'm really starting to see what people mean when they talk about their kids growing up so fast. Thank goodness for technology that will help us relive some of these times. Because my memory is terrible.
