i hate busytown & snow

Oh, Busytown.  

Elise LOVES these books lately.   I kind of despise them.   When I read them I skip pages on purpose.  She hasn't caught on yet.   Sure - they promote learning; counting how many Lowly Worms are on each page, Mr. Frumble's hat finding,  naming all the colors and a hundred pages that look exactly the same of cars, trucks, and things that go.   There are pigs who are butchers selling ham, cats who are the same size as worms, and mice riding in cheese cars.  It's bananas.  And it takes for.ev.er. to read.  I hide them at bedtime and hope she doesn't look for them because she probably knows where I put them.  

By 8pm I'm ready to read Goodnight Moon and call it a day.  Nick likes to read her the Space book and teach her about science.  By the way - she knows the words "telescope" and "satellite" and can name most of the planets. 

Also tonight (while facetiming my parents) we brought in some snow to play with in the sink.  She did this at MOPS earlier this week and thinks it's awesome. 

Speaking of "awesome" - it's her new word (thanks Auntie Aubrey) and it's totally hilarious. 
It goes like this:

Me:  Elise you are so awesome!

Elise:  No!  Not awesome.  You awesome Mommy.

Me:  Yep totally right. 

Her hair was in french braids today which is why it looks so weird.  She insists on taking out all hair accessories before nap time.  

(the best part is at about 1:10 where she says "this soup deeee-yishuss")