I'm handing over this blog post to Mom and Cas ... who are sitting together for a few minutes (very rare) while Dad and I and BeeJJJ watch Cricket and make comments like, 'Ahhh' and 'Ohhh' and 'What happened? ' and 'What's next?' and Beeg and Dad talk about cricket for ever and ever ...
What has Cassi being saying up to now, it is hard to keep track ... but here are a few things that Cas and Mom remember:
- If you ask ZaZ if you want to go somewhere? or if she is finished, she replies, 'Not yet'
- Cas said, 'What are you scratching?' ... ZaZa said, 'My one breast is itchy'
- If she hears a sound ... she holds her ear and says, 'listen with your ear'
- She likes to do things her way and then say, 'That's much better'
- Points to women with curly hair and says, 'That's like my Gia'
- ZaZa loves to compare ... everything is, 'That is a blue car like my moms' ... 'That is a pram like my pram' ... 'that is a white car like my Dad's car'
- Cassi said something one day, and now she always says, 'Granny and Bern going to say I'm getting big'
- She is very into, 'big' and 'small' ... She will say, 'Daddy is Big and Strong ... I am small. Jamie is Big, I am small'
- Loves to wake Cassi up by saying, 'Wake-up its a sunny day ... wake-up, Gym time'
- 'What's wrong?' 'Are you ok?'
- As we are writing this she walks past and says, 'I can't reach my back it's too hard'
- The other day, I gave her a cookie and she says, 'Chocolate is my favourite'
- If you call her she says, 'What', 'Ya'
- 'Coming right back, Boy Boy' ... where she heard that? Nobody knows
- ZaZa was in the bath the other night, Cas watching her ... I was in the kitchen and the fridge starting singing from being open too loong ... she says to cas, "Close the fridge Mom'
- If you hurt herself ... she comes up and kisses it and says, 'Make it better'
- Or she will say, 'Sleep will make it better' or 'chocolate milk will make it better'
- She is VERY into shadows at the moment ... she is always pointing out, 'There's my shadow Mom, There's your shadow mom, where's Auntie Cas shadow'
- Says, at appropriate times, 'Oh!', 'Alright', 'Ok'
- 'This bench is dirty ... I want to sit on that one'
- Cassi has been exposing ZaZa to MTV everyday and dancing around with her ... This morning in the car the New York song came on, so I said to Cas, 'This is your song' ... ZaZ pipes up from the back seat, 'NO! Auntie Cas song is Oh, Oh, Oh'
- ZaZa is exceptionally good with her pronouns - she, he, yours, mine, his, hers
- I said to ZaZa in the car today:
Mom: Who is your Daddy?
ZaZa: Phil
Mom: Who is my Daddy?
ZaZa: Beejjj
Mom: Who is Cassi's Daddy?
ZaZa: Robbie!
- ZaZa keeps Cas and I laughing
- This morning ZaZa was looking at the pictures on Cassi's computer and Cassi said, 'where were you in this picture' ... ZaZ says, 'At the restaurant drinking a, ... a ... a (you can see her brain looking for the word in her brain) a... a .. Smoothie (BIG SMILE)'
- 'It's Daddy's birthday ... and Peter and Estelle came to our house'
- 'Jamies dog is Bailey ... is black ... Sushi is white'
Our absolute BEST is ... if ZaZ does NOT want to do something she says, 'I WANT cream ... ANYMORE (and shakes her head at anymore' ... 'I want to shower, ANYMORE' ... and that means NO!
'I want YOU, Mom!'
We now have a naughty corner ... the other day she threw Cassi's phone over the balcony ... and was sent to the naughty corner and then had to say sorry ... it was a Broadway performance, with head down, shoulders up, dragging feet, droopy eyes ... and then finally a 'I'm sorry, Auntie Cas'
ZaZa LOVES to hide from people ... sometimes she hides away ... sometimes she just covers her hands with her eyes and then we have to say, 'Where is ZaZa?' to which she repplies ... 'I'm hiding' ... and then will pop out and say, 'Suprise ... here I am'
If you say to ZaZa are you Cute? She says, 'NO, I'm NOT cute ... I'm ZAZA'
The words she still says funny ... 'wamemolem' (for watermelon) 'cremea' (for camera)
She is very good at asking questions, 'Where you going?' 'Why you do that, Dad?', 'What?', 'What you doing?'
Cas taught her about getting wrinkles on her fingers when she has a bath ... so she loves to show EVERYONE her 'wrinkles' after the bath ... So the other day she said to Cassi, 'I'm getting Big, I'm getting wrinkles on my face'
She loves to remind me ... 'I'm getting Big, like you Mom???'
... and I'm Sure 'Auntie Cas' and I will think of more ...
