Little Miss Indepenedence

Kadence has become very independent about getting dressed...she does NOT like help, and often doesn't even like being watched. She's even started taking herself potty, and doesn't like help...or being watched.

Examples:

• She took her clothes into my room since no one was in there, and climbed her naked self up on my bed so she could sit down and put her "canties" on. I stopped Patrick in the hall so he wouldn't go in and upset her with his presence. After she got them on, she got off the bed to pull them up, and noticed us in the hall. She ran over to the door (with her panties half-way up), yelled "Bye! Get outta here!" and slammed the door.

• She had to go potty, and informed me "I do it myself. Just stay there!" When she realized she needed the light on, she asked me to turn on the light for her. After I did, she said "Now go away. Leave me alone!" and shut the bathroom door.

• She had to go potty and had to put her panties all the way back on after. I stepped over to help her, and she held out one hand and said "Relax! Relax! Chill out!"

We were in the car on the way home. She had some bandaids on her legs (no boo-boos, just bandaids) and she took them off her legs, and put them on her feet. Then she told me "Look! I got Jimmy Choos!" I want to know how she even knows what those are.

She came over to me with one of her plastic play knives and told me "I gotta cut those eyebrows. Look at me, and be still!" I'd also like to know where THAT came from.

Backlogging...cause it's been awhile.

We were trying to get her to say Osh Kosh b'gosh...it didn't work very well.

Kadence put her pull-up all the way on without help for the 1st time (they say it's like real underwear, but it's really much more difficult) and then she put her shorts on without me knowing. She was so excited she started doing her own rendition of Dora the Explorer's "I did it! Hoooray!" dance. In case you're wondering, Daddy's the one who taught her "shake your booty"...like that's surprising...:)

 

Little drama queen was holding my hand while she was on the potty...she turned it over and saw my wedding rings. She gasped, then whispered "The diamond! So pretty!"

 

K was standing by the fridge saying "I want a beer. I want a beer. Mommy, I want a beer." We don't drink beer, so I was rather shocked. I went over to see her looking up on TOP of the fridge at the teddy grahams. She meant BEARS. 

While she was out of bed to go potty, Kadence patted her messy little bedhead and told me "Mommy, I georgeous!"...not conceited at all now are we...

 

K: "Mommy, what's your name?" Me: "Rachael." K: "No! It's Mommy!"

 

Patrick started backing up the car before he buckled up...Kadence yelled "Daddy no! Seat belt!" I do believe that's the best thing she's learned from watching Dora. :)

 

After I got home from work one day, I told K "I missed you today babycakes." She replied "I miss you mommycakes." She randomly calls me "mommycakes" now.

 

My phone alarm went off, so K brought me the phone and told me "Here Mommy. Someone wants to talk to you." The other day Patrick was calling, and K started out bringing me my phone, but stopped halfway, wound up to pitch it to me and said "Here it comes Mommy!" I managed to grab it before she pitched it.

 

K just randomly started counting in Spanish one morning...which caught me a little off guard. She was jumping, and every time she jumped she counted...but it went like this "Uno! Dos! Dress! Stinko! Seis!" We're working on trying to fit "quatro" between "dress" and "stinko."

 

K informed me one morning that she couldn't take her milk from me, because she had to pay for it first. I told her to give me a kiss and that would pay for it. As she was putting on MY shoes, she said "No, I gotta go to work." At least she knows where money comes from...haha

 

K asked me for "pussytails" one morning...I guess that makes as much sense as calling them ponytails or pigtails. Normally she just calls them "tails."

 

I told K to get ready for her nap while I filled up her water (meaning get her baby and chipmunks.) She came back and told me she was ready. She had put her coloring book, and a handful of crayons in her bed so she could "Go night-night and color papers."

 

K: Mommy, what's your name? 

Me: Mommy. 

K: Right! What's the Kadence's name? 

Me: Kadence. 

K: Yes, right! What's the Birdy's name? (her Brittany Chipmunk) 

Me: Brittany. 

K: No, Birdy. What's the name the tree? 

Me: Um...tree? 

K: Right! What the name the other tree....etc. etc. etc. 

I ♥ being her Mommy. :)

 

K let go of her balloon and she couldn't reach it...so she asked me to get it. I had already told her I wasn't getting it anymore, so I didn't answer her. She came over, patted me on the head, and said "It's ok. Go ahead. Get it!"

 

K pointed to something I was holding and asked "Mommy, is that yours?" I said that it was, and she said "I'm yours too!"

 

We went shopping at "Mal-Nart" and I walked away from Patrick and Kadence to get something. Kadence yelled "Mommy Rachael! Hurry, come back!" several times, then she just started yelling "Rachael, rapido!" until I came back.

 

K was acting up, and P asked her if she wanted a spank. She yelled back "No, not yet! Later!"

 

Kadence shut herself in her room, and Caiden was pounding on the door yelling "Kadence, this is not an idea!" (We think he meant GOOD idea.) She yelled back "Sorry!" to which he replied "No you're not! Open the door, or your mother is gonna get a spanking!" (I hope he meant GIVE YOU a spanking.)

 

There are 3 family members who have birthdays on May 30th...so Kadence made a video for all of them. 

 

After she had an potty accident, I asked Kadence "Where are you SUPPOSED to go potty??" She replied "Um, NOT in the Dora canties." I laugh everytime she calls them "canties."

 

K: Turn that off! 

Me: No. 

K: Please? 

Me: No. 

K: PLEASE! 

Me: No. You don't always get what you want just because you say please. 

K: Why not? 

Me: Because I'm the mommy, and I get to decide. 

K: Oh!

 

She had a very bad day...first she bit her lip and it bled for about 5 minutes...the she somehow manged to go off a single step face first into the sidewalk. :(

 

We went to go eat lunch with Daddy. He walked over to me holding her, and she said "Hi Mommy! This is Daddy!" while patting his chest. They had their picture taken with the Chick-Fil-A cow, and after the picture while the cow was walking away, Kadence said "Bye bye cow! Moo moo!" The next morning K woke up and told me "Mommy, I want to say cheese and the cow." I told her we don't have a cow, and she said "The cow's at work Mommy." My brain eventually woke up to realize that she wanted to go take another picture with the Chick-Fil-A cow.

K told me quite seriously while we were on our way home "Mommy, I need a wife. I want a wife Mommy." I asked if she needed a WIPE, and she said "No, I want a WIFE." I asked her what she was going to do with a wife...her ...answer "Hide it." I have NO clue what she was actually talking about.

 

On the way to the zoo, Kadence asked me "Mommy, how I get down the giraffe?" I asked her why she would need to get down from the giraffe, and she said "I climb up!" I had to explain that we don't climb the animals, or ride them...we just look at them. We've been trying to teach her all the different kinds of animals...some she can say, others...well...

She got her 1st shaving cut the other day while we were in the shower...due to the fact that I didn't realize she's now tall enough to reach the ledge in the shower where my razor was. There was no crying, just a surprised "Mommy, I have a booboo." Turn your back for 1 second...she was happy that she got a "booboo nanaid" though.

Poppy came to visit...and was forced to do the iCarly dance. She makes everyone do it. :)

She and Caiden really enjoyed seeing Poppy (as did the rest of us), although he wasn't here NEARLY long enough....hint, hint.

 

Patrick came home from class the other day looking completely worn out. K was holding his face while she looked at him, and with a concerned tone asked "Daddy, what happend your head?? Daddy, what happend your face??" He said "Nothing happened baby. Daddy's just naturally ugly."

K and I spent about an hour sitting on the couch under an umbrella the other night, because she said it was raining. It had been raining for several days, and I had told her we only used the umbrella when it was raining...and since she wanted to play with it, she decided it was raining...inside. 

 

I need thunder every time I tell her to do something and she hesitates. It was like the voice of God commanding her to obey. lol

 

She asked for a "booboo nanaid" the other day, so I got one for her. I was opening it and she said "No, I do it!" After turning it over in her hands for a few seconds, she looked up at me confused and said "But how?" 

 

After I got her up the other morning and gave her her medicine for the day, she said "Now, what to do first!"

After she had refused to take a nap, I gave up and went into her room to get her...she jumped up and started pulling her pull-up back up. I asked her what she was doing, and she told me "I go potty on the bed." She had been squatting in the corner of her bed with her pull-up down, and I walked in just before she started peeing.


K busted my lip playing rough. She came over and asked me "What happened? Where's it hurt?" I told her my lip and she said "Let's see." and proceeded to inspect it. Then she said "Come on Mommy, I make it all better." She took me by the hand, led me into the bathroom, climbed up and got the Dora band-aids. She needed help opening one, and then she put it on my lip. "There you go Mommy. I make it all better."


I'll try not to let over 2 months go by before I update again...and then it won't take quite so long for you to get to The End. :)

Seatbelts! So we can be safe!

"Yummyliscious" is Kadence's new word...which she made up. "Mommy, that candy yummyliscious!"

 

She had been begging for months to have her ears pierced...so we finally did it!

We were on our way to Target, and I drove over something that made a noise. Kadence yelled "I heard that! That sound like Swiper!" She frequently "sees" or "hears" him when we go places.

 

After I got ready for bed one night, Kadence yelled that she had to go potty. I went to get her wearing a nightgown she'd never seen. She told me it was cute, and that I looked like a princess. When I was leaving her room, she yelled "No, Princess! Wait! I need you Princess!" I went back and told her to go to sleep. "No Princess! I can't!" I left anyway, and she kept yelling "Princess! Come back!"

 

She asked Daddy to "Do Dear Jesus" with her one night instead of Mommy. Although she COULD pray on her own, she prefers to repeat whatever we pray. He ended with just "Amen" and she yelled, "No, in Jesus name!" so Patrick said "In Jesus name," and instead of repeating that she just yelled "Amen!" Another night he was putting her to bed, and forgot to pray with her. She had to remind him by telling him "Want do Dear Jesus!"

 

Potty training is coming along...but we still have glitches. Kadence peed on the couch one morning...10 minutes after she had last gone potty. I was cleaning the couch and she informed me "That wet!" I asked if she knew why....her answer "Because." I asked if it was because she went potty there, and she said "Yes." I asked if she was sorry and she said "Yes, I promise!" I would prefer a promise not to repeat the offense.

 

When I put her down for a nap, we prayed for Jesus to help her not go potty in her pull-up, and wait to go potty until she woke up. She always ends her prayers with "In Jesus name, amen." When she woke up from her nap I took her to the potty. She had peed a little in her pull-up, so I told her we were going to change it. She took it off, handed it to me and said "I done with Jesus name." She wasn't upset...it just seemed like since she was awake, she figured she didn't need His help anymore. :D

 

I was baking one evening and had this conversation. K: Mommy, what are you doing? Me: Cooking. K: Why? Me: So we'll have food to eat. K: But we have popcorn!

 

That same evening she kept telling me she wanted "Kadence chippies" which was a new term for me...she finally saw some chips in the kitchen and yelled "I found the Kadence chippies! There she is!"

 

We were in the car and Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" came on the radio. They don't actually get to the soul sister part til the chorus, so I was quite surprised when as soon as they started singing K said "Mommy, Soul Sista!" and then started singing with them.

 

Kadence was still up late one night...insisting that she needed to go potty...again. While she was sitting on the potty, I asked her who the 3 princesses on her pull-up were. Her answer: Cinderella, Belle, and The Wipe (Snow White.) She started laughing really hard because I was, and ended up passed gas several times. She started laughing about passing gas, passed gas again and asked me "Why's it do that?" I would have explained body functions to her...but it was way past her bedtime, and I doubt she would have understood. :)

 

She came barreling down the hall to my room one morning yelling "I heard that! You heard that??" I hadn't, so she took me to the living room....there was a bird in our chimney. I told her it was just a bird...she wanted to see it, so she started running around trying to find it. :) Now whenever we go outside and she sees a bird she tells me "Want say hi bird." So she tells the birds hi, and bye when we leave.

 

She's learning shapes. I finally figured out that when she says "mikanon" she means octagon...but we don't have any, so I wasn't sure why she kept saying it. Now when we are out I point to stop signs and ask her what they were...sometimes she says "Stop!" and other times she says "Mikanon!"

 

Daddy and Kadence got some "ice crean" while we were shopping at "Mal-Nart." So we were doing one of her favorite activities (shopping) in her favorite store (Wal-Mart) while she ate her favorite treat (ice cream.) She told me "I having a bless-ed day."

 

Caiden and Kadence were distractedly singing a duet...so I figured if I set them on the back of the couch where they couldn't jump around (and btw, this is the only time they've been allowed up there) that they would concentrate long enough to finish the song...I was very wrong. Not only that, but I think Panda Express spikes their kid's meals with something...these 2 have never been this hyper together.

 

Kadence wanted to play ball, but Caiden told her they had to "do exercises" before they could play. They both went down the slide once (exercises). He then handed her the ball and told her "You did 1 exercises. Now you can play ball with your mommy." He kept telling her to "Do your exercises!" and when she just laughed at him he'd say "That's not funny!"

It was close to bedtime and Kadence was trying to put her shoes on. We weren't going anywhere...and had this conversation:
K: Gotta put the shoes on! 
Me: Why? 
K: To go shopping. 
Me: We're not going shopping. 
K: Gotta go shopping! 
Me: We might go shopping later, but not right now. 
K (exasperated): Fine!

 

Kadence is obsessed with Alvin and the Chipmunks. She has an Alvin and a Brittany from Build-a-Bear that Daddy got her. One afternoon after her nap, she anxiously asked where Brittney was when she only found Alvin in her room. I told her that we'd find her. On the way down the hall she said "It's ok Alvin. We'll find her." He was apparently very worried.

 

She's been asking for her very own "bella" for awhile now. We were at Target and they had a matching umbrella and rain boots on sale...so I figured why not. She spent the rest of the day marching around saying "Tut, tut! Da rain!"

The next morning she kept telling me her tummy was under her arm...once I corrected her as to it's intended placement, she stuck her tummy back where it belonged...with the belly button.

 

Daddy brought her into our room the other morning so she could yell "Cocka-da-doo! Cocka-da-doo! Wake up!" She'd been watching an episode of Dora where they woke up the sun...

 

The weather has been very nice and rainy. We opened up the blinds and the windows one morning to let the cool, fresh air in. Kadence climbed up on the back of the couch, pulled a set of blind cords across herself and told us "Seatbelts! So we can be safe!" Whenever we put a jacket on her she says "Life jackets! So we can be safe!" So now we know that Dora and Diego are teaching her something besides Spanish. :)

 

Patrick finished loading the dishwasher and started it. Kadence ran over to me, pointed at the dishwasher (which was filling up with water) and yelled "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I gonna drown!"

 

I was putting pigtails in Kadence's hair, and she kept telling me "I Super Lily!" I believe this is because of Milli (who always wears pigtails) on Team Umizoomi. Kadence can't be convinced that the character's name is Millie, not Lily (like her best friend.) So when she has pigtails, apparently she's "Super Lily."

 

She has a snack after she wakes up from her nap. This afternoon she requested "Cereal Tiger"...normal people call them "Frosted Flakes." She also started referring to Cheetos as "Tiger Chips."

We went grocery shopping at Albertson's, and Kadence was riding in the little car attached to the cart. She tried to stand up and I told her not to do that. She tried to do it again, and I said "Kadence Rayne!" She immediately responded with "No! Lily Grace!" which is her bff's full name. She spent the rest of the evening telling me she wasn't Kadence...she was Lily Grace.

 

We've tried to impress upon this child the importance of going poopy in the potty....and so far, she doesn't care. No matter what the bribe/prize/etc. she just won't do it. We've had a soccer ball up on a shelf for weeks now that she really wanted. We told her she could have it when she pooped in the potty. I was changing ANOTHER poopy pull-up, and I told her "If you had gone poopy in the potty like a big girl, you would have gotten your soccer ball." She got excited "I go poopy! I get soccer ball!" I told her she couldn't have it this time, since she hadn't gone poopy IN THE POTTY. She was lying there contemplating what I'd just told her, and she said "Oh. Well...um...oh well."

"I Honey?"

Kadence woke up around midnight one night, and Patrick went to go check on her. As soon as he opened the door, she sat up and said "Daddy, want play it's me Mario." Isn't 2 years old a little young to be obsessing over video games?
  
She has a very active imagination. She started one morning as Dora, and I was Boots the monkey. Later she was Kai-Lan, and I was Hoho the monkey....so I guess I can add 2 monkeys to my personalities...

Kadence got mad at me on a Friday because we went to Target when she wanted to go to church. Sunday she was very excited that it was finally 'church day.' "I gonna put the shoes on and go to church." :)

She's always surprised when she's drawing, and she actually does something. The look on her face is priceless when she realizes she just drew a letter. While doing her "potty art" she figured out "O" and "M." One morning she figured out "Y" and "L." 

She's started liking medicine a little too much...she had already been given all of her medication for the day, and after I put her in bed one night she kept crying "Need medsin! Need more medsin! Please?" 

 

She had been on steroids for a bad cough for over a week, which made her moods very difficult. She was more unstable than usual one morning, and hit 2 different kids at the gym daycare. The 1st kid had pushed her...the 2nd kid told her "No" about something, so she hauled off and hit him. She knew she was in BIG trouble, and spent about an hour crying about it. She made considerable more effort to control herself after that.

 

The gym is a normal part of our daily routine...so much so that one morning Kadence walked up to me with her jacket thrown over her shoulder, and told me "I weady go to the gym."

 

I had to teach her what "boss" meant. After she demanded that I "Moob over!" so she could sit where I was sitting on the couch, I told her "No ma'am. Kadence isn't the boss. Mommy's the boss." She responded with "I want some boss!" 

 

She asked me to help her "Take offa the hoo hoop." After several requests, I figured out that she meant hula hoop...like Alvin...only, she doesn't have one. I actually had to do an imaginary hulahoopectomy for her. 

 

Caiden came over to play with Kadence one evening. She wanted him to do something...and when he didn't do it, she spanked him and said "You nauney!" which got HER in trouble. We had to have the whole "You're not the mommy, you're not the daddy, and you're NOT in charge." conversation AGAIN.  

 

Later they had a "Shhhhhh!" match...C got fed up, pointed at K and said "No, woman!" then turned to me and said "Kadence acting like an animal."

 

We woke up one morning to K yelling "Alllllllvin! Alllllllvin!" just like in the show...which she's seen too much. Apparently her Alvin jumped ship, and she wanted him back.

 

I was cutting K's toenails and didn't see that she had picked up the bottle of nail polish...and started doing her own fingers. While I was trying (unsuccessfully) to get it off the couch she came over with a wipe to help me, and emphatically told me "Kadence VERY nauney. Kadence BIG trouble." 

I called her "Honey" the other day, which confused her slightly since that's not her name. She clarified by asking "I Honey?" I told her that yes, I had been talking to her. She decided she liked that name. The next morning after going potty and washing her hands, she saw herself in the mirror and told me "I Kadence!" I agreed, and she ran off down the hall....only to turn around and walk back. She looked up at me with a concerned look and asked "Mommy, I Honey?" I told her yes, she was Honey too...and she grinned and ran of saying "I Honey!" The next day I called her "kiddo." We had to have the conversation all over again...except she had to clarify that she was indeed "Kadence, KK, Honey, and Kiddo." Poor kid is only 2, and she's already having an identity crisis...:)