Mary Clare’s first word!

Mary Clare has been talking lots lately, none of it making much sense until this week. She has always said, “MOM,” not necessarily meaning me, mommy, mother, unless she is pointing to me. It usually means get me that, I need that, or I want that now! She has many words that aren’t really words at all, just MC Language that only I can decipher…until now!! Quite clearly she says, “thank-you!” Not only that, but she says it appropriately or when asked to repeat it! She definitely puts the emphasis on the YOU part and adds a little Q, which is too funny. It sounds more like, “than-QQQQQ!”

McCanless has had a fun week. It is spirit week at school and we have not had to argue over clothes at all!! She loves dressing up and has even skipped out of the door ready to get to school! Today was PJ day, her favorite so far.

Also this week…

She brought home a Pre-decodable Takehome Book, My Toys, to share with mommy and daddy. She stressed to us that she must share them with both of us for her homework. She was so eager and excited to read to us. (The sentences consisted of: My car. My ball. My doll. etc. ) We three curled up in bed and she must have read it to us 25 times before she began to embellish the story just a bit. Which doesn’t surprise me. Often, she tells me of events that happened at school, and when she knows I’m really listening to her and anxiously awaiting an outcome, she will throw in an added detail or two. Something she obviously inherited from her daddy. The girl in her book decided to throw away all of her toys and go shopping for more at BiLo, but was interrupted when an alligator bit off her leg, which ironically happened to a friend of McCanless’ at school this week, too.

In a rush to get to dance on time and with an anxious McCanless, I mentioned that I had to use the bathroom very quickly and that it woudn’t take a minute! She put her hands on her hips and said, “Is your arm hanging off?…Are your eyes twisted?…Is your head about to fall off?…Are you DYING?…Is it an EMERGENCY?” She smiled at me and winked, which is her favorite thing to do now because she can finally do it! Obviously, this was something she has heard Ms.Chure say!

Yesterday, we were playing in the yard and McCanless thought she heard music. I said, “No McCanless, it was the phone ring.” She immediately began dancing and singing…”in the middle of the night. My father says, ‘What ‘cha gonna do with your life?”

This morning Ms. Patti mentioned to me that she was buzzed in the office from Ms. Gretchen’s music room. She called over the intercom and asked Ms. Gretchen if everything was okay, as this is usually a call for help, questions, emergency, etc. Ms. Gretchen said, “No, McCanless felt the need to reach up and hit the intercom button on her way out of the door.” (I KNOW this is a rule that is always strickly enforced and rarely broken.) Ms. Patti yelled back, “Hi McCanless,” with a chuckle, which didn’t do much to reinforce that rule. Ms. Patti said she loves McCanless and couldn’t help herself. I’m waiting to hear the dog house report after school.

Have I mentioned McCanless is her daddy’s clone?

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