a creative mind, a loud mouth, and a new addiction

i have been quite proud of the fact that noe seems to have inherited her mommy's love of reading and imagination. for a long while now, she has been playing make believe and pretending to read stories and act them out, etc. this shows that she has a very active imagination, which is one thing that could not possibly come from daddy because he's a scientist. ha! finally snuck a couple of genes past those dominate asian ones! well, now i'm not so sure it's a good thing. lately, she has begun to let her creative mind run away with her. she makes up stories all on her own...and not the nice fairy stories or princess tales. no, she tells people that she's being abused. i often hear her say "daddy hit me," or "daddy beats me". the latest was "daddy pushed me down the stairs." now, i'm not saying he hasn't been tempted to beat her (she's two, after all), but i can say with absolute certainty that he has never laid a hand on her in a harmful manner. i have also seen her trip or pretend to fall and insist that "mali pushed me". the child is out of control! that on top of her mongolia marks on her bottom are going to get us arrested! i need to find a way to harness this creative talent to be used for good rather than evil. until then, you may all need to be put on stand by in case i need witnesses to testify that i do not actually beat my child...yet.

mali has begun using short sentences...loudly. while at granny's last week, she added "get up" to her vocabulary. she ran over to the couch where i was attempting to nap and slapped her hands on the cushion right in front of me and yelled "mamma, get up!" several times. everything she says now she says in this manner. i guess she realizes that she has to really speak up to be heard around here. other favorites include: big dog, wee, i want, mine, potty, and kitty.

i have a new addiction. all my friends have been on face book for a while, including fai. apparently i was missing out. so i broke down and did it yesterday, intending to use it every so often to keep up. well, it's been about 24 hours and i've been on at least once every hour, more at times. i've even started adding flair.

well, i don't have many pics from granny's because our battery died the first day there and i forgot to bring the charger. i have others to show you, but we're still charging the battery now, so it'll have to wait. until then...you can catch me on face book!