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Sausage People and Sundry Maddy Comedy

 A couple of weeks ago we had beans and sausage for dinner. Maddy started making people out of her sausage and beans. I was about to put the kibosh on that activity when I realized she was actually eating what she was making. The above is a "smiley face". I don't really see it.....but I'm probably just blind and narrow minded. I probably should have found a way to frame this and it would have become a famous exhibit in the museum of modern art. Below are "Her" and "Him". "Her" is on the bottom. Maddy explained that the half moon sausage is "her's" smile. The round one is "her's" face. The two beans on top are "her's" bows. We never could get her to explain what was up with "Him". "Him" looks like he had a rough day. Maybe it was tragic. Whatever the case, Maddy didn't really want to talk about "Him".
Yesterday, she had fish sticks and some shell macaroni noodles for lunch. She got two fish sticks and put them on the table and announced she was making a "zanie" face. We finally figured out she was saying zombie. Why does she know about zombies.......well, uh, in a weak moment I let her check out a Scooby Doo book from the library. "Scooby Doo and the Rock 'n' Roll Zombie" to be exact. Ahem. Well, anyway she used the fish sticks as the "zanie's" eyes and the noodles were the nose and the mouth. Then she got a couple of pieces of lettuce and those were the "zanie's" cheeks. Pretty accurate food face rendition of a zombie actually. AND she ate all of the zombie face except the lettuce.
Speaking of all these food messes, Maddy was trying to help me clean the table after lunch one day. "Help" mostly meant scattering food particles all over the table and floor. I said, "Maddy, don't make a worse mess!" Maddy looked at me a little puzzled. She asked, "I make a horse mess? I said, "No a worse mess."  Still puzzled, Maddy asked, "I make a pony mess?" At this point, I'm laughing my head off. "Not horse. Worse." Finally Maddy gets that I'm saying a different word, but being the little toot she is, she said, with a twinkle in her eye, "No. HORSE."

Lately Maddy has gotten the idea that she can get anything she wants at the store....I mean anything. The other day she suddenly announced, "I'm going to the store to buy a stick bug and I'm going to let him inside."

Maddy also likes to talk like she is reading a story from a book, but she attributes quotes to the wrong people. For example, yesterday she was in the bedroom with Aaron and she was trying to reach something and she couldn't quite get it, so she said, "'I can't get that,' said Dad."  This morning she went and shoved Seal and said, "Go away, Seal!" I told her not to shove the cat and she looked at me and said, "Seal says, 'I want to go away.'"

Maddy has developed a love for "Cars" lately. By this I mean the Disney movie characters. We got her some "car snacks" when we went camping and she loves the car named Holley Shiftwell because she is a purple car. She call her "Holley Sheetwell". Thank goodness she decided to use the long "e" sound rather than an more unfortunate vowel. Because she liked the Cars characters so much we decided to rent "Cars 2" since we hadn't ever seen it. Maddy loved the movie. She liked Holley Shiftwell still, but her favorite characters ended up being the "bad guys". At therapy, her therapist let her pick some stickers for a reward. The therapist just happened to have some cars stickers and Maddy insisted that she wanted a "bad guy" for her sticker.

As you can imagine from these tidbits, conversation is rarely dull around our house....even at 1:30 a.m. On Saturday night/Sunday morning, Maddy woke up at 1:30 insisting that she needed something to eat. I finally got up with her and dragged myself upstairs to find her something. I had taken some benedryl that evening because my allergies were really bad so I was feeling very drugged. I got Maddy at the table with a bowl of yogurt and she said, "The elephant is over there. The elephant is driving the car. The elephant is driving the car to church and I'm going to see him at church with Camden (a friend from her class)  tomorrow." All I could think was that I must be having a hallucination from the drugs. Surely we weren't talking about car driving elephants at 1:30 in the morning. Surely it was all just a benedryl induced dream.

Comments

Kristina said…
Funny! Never a dull moment, huh?
May 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Jennifer said…
lol, such a character! Colby loves Cars as well. He loves "Lightning and a Queen." hehe
May 22, 2012 at 10:32 AM
bee said…
I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts. hahahaha How can one little girl be so funny all the time. She kills me.
May 22, 2012 at 8:49 PM
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