My new Perrito!

As most of you know Ada is obsessed with puppies. Everyday, she asks can she have a new puppy. I tell her she has a dog, Zeus, and if we get another dog it would hurt Zeus's feelings. I play on her caring side, b/c she's gives up pretty easy if she thinks it will hurt some one's feelings. That's probably not the best strategy for me to use, but I needed to pull out the big guns on this one. We can't get another dog, and I don't want another dog. So, I told her when she's older and can take care of a dog then she can have one. So every morning, she says, "Am I older and bigger yet mom?" I say yes, a little but not enough for a dog yet. And she says" It will hurt Zeus's feelings..." Yes I say and that usually ends it for the day.

But lately, that's really not doing it for her. Tonight (as I am trying to bribe her to eat mac and cheese, which she did & only gagged once,) I told her you have to eat so you can grow and get big. And of course the first thing out of her mouth is, I will be big enough to get a dog now? After she finished her chicken fries, she says my tummy hurts, I think I need a new dog... It's always some clever way to get a new dog. Matter of fact as I am typing this she comes to me and says when I get big I can get a new dog, but I'm little now...

The Culprit of this: Dora dvd "Dora and her new Perrito" So glad we got that one... She is obsessed with getting a new perrito. This is the theme of her birthday party as well. Dora and puppies. She's really into speaking Spanish as well... it's sad I can't teach her more. I don't really know any conversational Spanish. Maybe I should look into dvds that teach her Spanish, it would be so great for her to know it, since we are moving to Clarksville...

She has also been giving me a list of things she wants for her birthday... the most random things...a jack in the box, a guitar, a yo-yo, a slinky, "music" for her karaoke machine, and of course new dresses... I keep telling her when she asks, maybe for your birthday, I guess I need to stop telling her that or I'm gonna have a rather large bill to pay.

Isaac on the other hand has really developed his language skills. He's just saying so many new things like "I want that", "put on", "take off", "I want cookie" instead of just Cookie, " I want sit" ( in the recliner), "ball", "backpack, backpack"(from dora), all kinds of names: Papaw, Papa, Nana, Crissy, Zackary, Grayson, Ada, Bobby, Momma, dada, tim ( he says it really fast and it's really funny), charla, and some versions of everyone else, sorry to Shelley, Myra, Savanah, you guys shouldn't have hard names.

Just a few updates.