{the tew family}: August 2014

Here are Mabel's quotes from the jar over the past several months:

3.10.14 When she tells you a secret instead of whispering in your ear she puts her ear to yours and then she whispers.

4.06.14 Looking at herself after going potty.
Mabel: "Mom, we are girls and boys have penises."
Me: "Yes, that's right."
Mabel: (singing) "Penis, peanut butter and jelly!"

4.07.14 Mabel was speaking in weird jibberish (which she never does!):
Me: What are you saying?
Mabel: I am speaking Portuguese!!
(of course Nate loved it when I told him this!)

4.08.14 I asked her to pick up her toys and she said, "I can't because of my belly."
(which is what I say all the time because of my large pregnant belly!)

4.11.14 One day she built me an "elephant bum" tower
and thought it was the funniest thing.

4.15.14 I was telling her a bedtime story about a horse named Buttercup.
Me: Buttercup ran across the field!
Mabel: You mean galloped?

4.16.14 She was walking up the stairs following Kelsey and said, "Kelsey stop! I'm begging you!"

4.20.14 Singing a made up song, "I love the holy spirit!"

4.20.14 Mabel got a harmonica in her Easter basket. She couldn't find it the next morning and she asked, "Where is my moroni?" Then later she asked again, "Where is my moronica?"

4.21.14 She waved to a random lady in Costco then turned to me and said, "Mom, that is being friendly!"

4.22.14 In the car we saw a guy riding a motorcycle without a helmet...
Mabel: Oh no! He doesn't have a helmet on! We should give him a ticket.

She needs a nap EVERY day but that doesn't happen
anymore. We still try and most days it works but some days it
doesn't. On those days I often wish I drank alcohol.

4.22.14 Getting her pajamas on:
Mabel: I want to wear my monkey jammies.
Nate: They are downstairs in the wash.
Mabel: That is ridiculous!

4.23.14 She was so grumpy today and I said, "It looks like we have a grump on our hands!" She looked down at her hands turning them over.

4.25.14 Nana asked Mabel to do something and she said that she couldn't because she didn't have enough pixie dust!

She loves visiting Aunt Kelsey at "Noodle Land."

4.28.14 I gave Mabel a peppermint and she said she was putting the mint in her pocket for safekeeping.

5.01.14 Nate and Mabel were playing and saying, "I miss my mommy" back and forth. Mabel was pretending she was the mama and Nate said, "Mommy, I miss Mabel." Mabel paused and with a stern voice said, "I'm not the mama and I'm not going to take care of you!"

Nana sent her a dollhouse for her birthday and she got to
open it a few weeks early!

5.14.14 I was eating some watermelon and she asked, "May I have a bite your majesty?"

5.18.14 I told her to take our tithing envelope up to Nate who was seated on the stand in church and she said, "Sure, I'll take this to Daddy and I can zig zap through all the people."

Before brother came along we had time to paint
our nails and put Jamberry's on.

5.20.14 "Daddy, how does Heavenly Father love me and you and mama AND the abominable snowman?"

5.26.14 Mabel was opening Kelsey's plastic owl egg from Easter and was pretty disappointed when there was nothing in it. She said, "There's no candy or ham!"

6.01.14 Mabel saw Charlie barf on the carpet and said, "It looks like seahorse!"

6.03.14 Mabel kept asking Kelsey to scoot over and when Kelsey asked why Mabel said, "Because you want to!"

Back in the days when Elliott used to sleep in his carseat
we would drive to Salt Lake. We stopped to visit Elisha at
work and she let Mabel help stock the produce. For
a little girl who loves to pretend she is "the worker" this
was a dream come true!

6.04.14 Singing the hush little baby song and she said, "Daddy's gonna do nothing for you."

6.06.14 Mabel was singing a random song about out on the deep blue sea...then all of a sudden she paused and starting singing the frozen song, "I never see you anymore, come out the door, it's like you've gone awaaaaay."

The day she skinned both her knees and refused to walk for
the rest of the day. It was the worst. It was as if her legs had been
chopped off. Now that scraping her knees is a pretty regular occurrence
she has gotten a lot better with pain management.

6.09.14 I said, "Elliott is such a cute baby!" and she said, "Like a little apple dumplin'!"

6.14.14 I told Mabel that Nana, Grandpa, and Uncle Jacob would be here around 3ish and she said, "But mama, I'm already 3! They gotta come!"

6.24.14 She came out of her room with glasses on and said, "I'm the parent."

6.28.14 She was sad that there were no food samples at Sam's Club and she said, "But I need samples for my body to grow!"

Uncle Jacob's girlfriend Alana got Mabel this Frozen
shirt when she was at Disneyland in Paris!

6.29.14 After asking penis questions when Nate was peeing:
Nate: "It's probably not good to talk about penises all the time."
Mabel: "Okay, let talk about vaginas."

7.01.14 When she's really mad she says, "FINE, I'M OUT!" and leaves the room.

I have loved seeing the evolution of the faces she draws.
Just recently they started having eyebrows.

She loves pretending to call Uncle Jacob on this phone.

7.06.14 While playing doctor with me:
Mabel: Okay, I have to give you a shot and it might hurt for a minute but don't cry because it's annoying. Then you get a sticker and a treat.

She loves taking pictures with my phone and
it's fun scrolling through my photos at night seeing what
she chose to take pictures of. Foot selfie below: