Curly Straight

Julia: Mama, can I have maple syrup on my waffle?

Mama, taking it out of the fridge: Yes, of course you can.

Julia: That's not maple syrup, that's APRIL syrup!

Julia: READY SET GO!

Runs.

Repeat.

Julia: Mama, look at me.

Mama: Yes, Julia, I see you. You are running so fast. Like Mader.

Julia: Mader's not fast.

Mama: Like Lightning McQueen, I meant to say.

Julia: YES! Like Lightning McQueen!

Runs.

Julid didn't like my new skirt. It's cute, very basic, sort of a denim, linen material, little belt.

As I was putting it on this morning, she was bossing me around - telling me "Fix it! Don't wear that. Hide THAT! (the belt)" It was very obvious she wasn't feeling how my skirt looked.

Later in the day, I told her "Everyone loved my skirt today, Julia."

She looked at me with a very serious look on her face and said "everyone but me."

Julia is the last one sleeping. I hear her making noise so go in to get her.

"You left me hanging," she tells me. Then she giggles.

Getting ready for kickboxing class.

Putting on my socks and sneakers, talking to the family.

Julia looks at my sock as I'm pulling it on and tells me: Mama, you made the wrong choice.

Today I heated up Julia's "warm chocolate milk" too hot.

"MAAAAAMMMMMMAAAA, you didn't make the right choice!" she tells me.

"You are not the best heater."

Hahahaha.

When Julia lets us know that she is not happy with something, or we are not understanding her correctly, her voice drops into a low, gravel-y tone, similar to a big soulful woman singing the blues.

It's very entertaining coming out of such a little 30-pound body.

I use reverse psychology on the kids. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

One time, they were not cooperating with the whole going to bed thing, so I said "ok, we are all going to stay up all night! We can party all night! No sleep for anyone!" It worked. They got so tired that they were telling me it was time to go to bed.

Julia has taken this "party all night" to heart.

Almost every night when we put her to bed, she says "I don't want to go to bed, I want to party all night."

Her and John were having a conversation today and he said "Julia, did you cry in the middle of the night last night?"

Julia: Yes. But then I went back to sleep.

John: That's good, big girls sleep through the night.

Julia. Yes. Sometimes I like to sleep but sometimes I like to party all night.

TJ, Julia and John are at Monster Golf.

She's doing ok until a huge dragon rises up from the back corner.

She runs to John.

Julia: Daddy! It's a scary dragon!

Daddy: Julia, it's not real. It's a fake dragon.

Julia: It's a SCARY fake dragon!

When Julia likes something she's eating, she rubs her belly and says "yum yum yum."

Julia, at a restaurant: This food is going home.

Mama: Where's home?

Julia: In my belly!

Julia: You're chocolate and I'm cookie.

Mama: Hahah

Julia: It is not a joke.