More Fun Bella Sayings

Here are a few more Bella-isms that came to mind after the last post.

Bella loves Honeycomb cereal, except that she calls it "Honey Pine Cone Cereal".

When Bella is in trouble and needs to come to Papa right away he tells her "Bella, front and center." The other day, Bella and I were taking 'naps' in our respective rooms when all of a sudden I heard my sweet little daughter yelling at me, "Mama! Front! Center!" After laughing to myself I went in and explained to her that that was not a command that worked on mom.

We love our drinks here in the Becker house. They can be alcoholic, caffeinated, or just fizzy and fruity, but we love them. Bella is frequently miffed when we don't give her sips of our coffee or wine and never fails to notice when she's not being given the latest yummy sip. She's taken up toasting which she does by holding up her sippy cup and saying "Cheers?" and then we have to 'clink' our glass with hers. This is done many times throughout any given meal. Anyhow, Bella seems to share our love for caffeinated beverages despite the fact that she's only tasted them a handful of times. The other day we were sitting in Jack in the Box eating dinner (their sirloin burgers are HUGE) and Bella saw a big poster for their new blended coffee drink thingies and pointed to it and said, "Love that. Drink that." with much enthusiasm and surety. She also says that whenever we pass Starbucks now.

I already mentioned the "Front! Center!" antics, but she also likes to tell us to go away. It's usually when she's sitting in the rocking chair in her room with her babies that she turns to me and says "Mom! Go away!" and waves me away with her arm.

You may remember from the fish post that she said that they cost one hundred dollars. Now everything costs one hundred dollars. Her shoes, her sunglasses, her dresses, and her new jogging pants all cost one hundred dollars. Hey, at least she thinks we're rich.

This doesn't translate so well in writing, but Bella has a very cute way of saying "I'm stuck" that sounds a lot more like "I duck". We enjoy holding on to her tightly until she says it, and then we let her go. Kind of a weird game, we know, but she seems to enjoy it too.

When we're serving snacks to Bella or giving her a new toy or new clothes, she tends to get very excited. And it doesn't just look like she's excited, she tells us she's so excited. It actually comes out more like "I so 'cited!" and then she does her crazy Chucky laugh and jumps up and down. Actually kind of creepy.

I'm not sure if this is a common toddler problem, but Bella frequently jumbles up the structure of her sentences. The most common one is "See Mama what doing?" when she wants to get up on her stool to see what I'm doing in the kitchen or watch me putting on my make-up.

Apparently, anything girly is "Miss Princess". If Bella is wearing a necklace, she's "Miss Princess". The same goes for pretty skirts, painted nails, sparkly rings, and flower crowns. What a goose.

I mentioned in the last post that Bella is very good at mimicking our exclamations like "gracious" and "oh my gosh". Well, now she says "Holy Smokes!" whenever we change her diaper. Apparently, Andrew says that when she has a particularly dirty diaper, and she's decided to say it every time for dramatic effect.

And just now, as I was writing this, she came up with something new. She's becoming very clever at asking to be read to. She's wrapping up her books in a small blanket and then bringing them to us while singing "Happy Birthday" and saying "This is present for you!". What a generous little girl.