Gwen-isms

My sister Laura posted about some of the cute things that her almost 3 year-old son says and does these days that make her smile. I thought that I'd borrow her idea and post a few of the cute things Gwen does lately.

Gwen's talking more and more each day. She clams up around company though so don't be surprised if you can't get a squeak out of her. When there's just Mommy and Daddy there though she talks non-stop. Lately, she's been trying out sentences or phrases instead of one or two word commands. This morning she reached up and turned off our bedroom light without using her step stool for the first time ever. (She must have had a growth spurt during the night.) She proudly declared, "Momma, I offed light!" I looked at Jonathan and said that we must be raising a mafia assassin because she had just offed the light. We had a good giggle about that and Gwen said "I funny" and spent the next few minutes turning the light off and on and fake laughing about it. She turns lots of nouns into verbs, too. The other day I was holding her and we were looking at ourselves in the mirror. She looked down at her bare feet and said, "sock me, Momma." She wanted me to put her socks on her.

Gwen's never really been attached to one security item and instead will have a favorite item for a week or two and then move on to something else. This week it's her Elmo pillowcase. She calls it her "Elmo Blankie." She uses it as a seat cover when she sits or wears it as a cape or a dress over her clothes. With Christmas coming I can't wait to see what she settles on next as her favorite.

Gwen LOVES nativities. She calls them "Jesus Houses" and likes to point out baby Jesus and Jesus Momma (Mary) and Small One. Small One is a Disney cartoon about a boy and his pet donkey. The donkey's name is Small One and the boy has to take him to town and sell him because he's getting old and tired. After some adventures with a tanner and some mean auctioneers, Joseph offers to buy Small One so Mary can ride him to Bethlehem. Gwen made the connection all by herself that the donkey in our nativity must be the very same Small One from the cartoon. We have a music box/snow globe nativity that Gwen keeps right next to her bed and watches and listens to as she falls asleep. It doesn't have a donkey on it anywhere, so each night Small One gets to leave the other nativity set downstairs and go sit next to the music box one upstairs to watch over Jesus. Lately, one of the polar bears from my collection has joined Small One. I don't know what that's about.