Silly Shannon

My goodness, this girl cracks us up. Here's a handful of funny things about Shannon these days.

1. She gets "Amen" and "The end" mixed up. So when she finished a book, she closes it and says, amen.

2. Sometimes we do meals in the family room, sometimes while watching Elmo. (You do what you gotta do.) Shannon doesn't let this casual meal plan interfere with her standards... note the "table cloth" and coaster she set her table with.

3. Her hair. It's long enough to get into a ponytail but is so curly that it can grow/shrink by six inches, depending on if its newly washed (and humid) or has been through a few naps/bedtimes. At least once a week, someone asks me if she got a haircut when it's in "short mode."

4. She is really putting sentences together now and mimics things she hears us saying. Hearing her say things like, "oops, Shannon messed up" make me smile.

5. Loves playing hide-and-seek. Or "hideSEEEEEK!" as it's known around here. Again, more funny phrases: oh, no!, Shannon lost, hideseek, Shannon hidin', no see Shannon!

6. Little Miss Bossy telling mommy and daddy not to raise their voices at each other by shouting, "NO YELLIN' !!!" And laughing and getting louder each time she says it. I swear, she gets the irony.

7. Cracking herself up. We have a Sesame Street book where Cookie is eating soap. She loves looking at this page and saying, "Cookie, no eat soap. Eat cookies." And doing her forehead-bonking, head-shaking laugh afterward.

8. Speaking of Cookie Monster, she and Daddy do a pretty mean "C is for Cookie" duet.

9. Really into toddler songs right now. Favorite include Five Little Monkeys and Eensy-Weensy Spider, which she insists/prefers to sing as The Big, Big Spider. Every time. No idea where this comes from.

Love you, little weirdo!