Let's Try This Again

It certainly won't be a repeat of the one that Frito erased but..........

This morning TGTBT asked, "Do you know what a llama looks like?"

"Um.....yeah."

"Do you know what an elk looks like?"

"Yes........."

"Would you ever mistake a llama for an elk?"

Anyway, apparently some hunter shot a "feral" llama thinking it was an elk. I said, "There are feral llamas in the US?"

TGTBT said, "Well, yeah. They belong to someone but escape and become feral."

I said, "In that case, the cow that was in Joe's yard was feral, huh?"

He rolled his eyes and I realized that we had never told The Nut about it. So I said, "The Nut, did you know there was a cow wandering around here the other day?"

She nodded and then said, "Wait......in our yard?"

"No, in Joe's backyard."

"Oh yeah. I knew because I saw the cow poop."

She said it very matter-of-factly and went about her business like it was an everyday occurrence to see cow poop in the yard.

Speaking of poop.....I got a double dose of it yesterday. Frito woke up and I smelled it as soon as I walked in her room. I barely stuck my finger in the back of her diaper to pull it out and check and it was so far up the back it went all under my fingernail. Went and scrubbed my hands and went back and got her out of the crib and began changing her. She likes to flail all about now and try to grab whatever's there so I then got it all over the back of my hand. I was thoroughly grossed out by this point AND had been in the middle of making breakfast----sausage/egg biscuits that need to be eaten by HAND. I barely made it through, let me tell you.

We also found out yesterday that The Nut has been going into the neighbor's house uninvited and has walked in on them in their underwear AFTER they'd already gotten onto her once about knocking and such. What's ironic is that before we found that out I had JUST been thinking how nice it was that she was getting older and didn't have to be supervised 24/7 and how I bet she was enjoying her newfound freedom as much as we were. So much for that. New rule is that she's not allowed to go see if the boys can play anymore until she proves to us that she's showing maturity and responsibility in other ways. They have to come get her. I hope she learns her lesson. I was highly embarrassed about the whole thing.

Friday on the way to school "Love Story" by Taylor Swift was on the radio and The Nut asked, "Is Juliet a place or a thing?"

So I gave her a watered down version of Romeo and Juliet-----minus the double suicide at the end. She then wanted to hear, AGAIN, all about how TGTBT and I met and fell in love. She asked how old we were and I told her that I was almost 17 and TGTBT was almost 21. She got very quiet. Then, "I'm going to cry."

"Why are you going to cry?"

"Because Daddy's so much OLDER than you and he's going to DIE first!"

He got a kick out of that.

And lastly, Frito has a new consistent word. I went to get her up and she was staring at my pajama pants and I thought it was odd. Then she said, "Bum ba." I looked down and realized I had Spongebob all over my pants. She's said it all day long. So cute.