Today Z and I spoke in British accent the whole time we were at the grocery store. Hee hee. We are not great but many hours of listening to Jim Dale read Harry Potter, watching Charlie and Lola (and for me The Office and Dr. Who.) We are getting better.
Here is another
Every night before we put Z to bed Pere or I hide her somewhere in the bedroom and the other parent has to find her. We have been doing this for months and months and have mostly run out of original places (her room isn't that big) but we have still been able to come up with some good ones recently. Some places we have hidden her is up on top of her bookshelves under a chinese umbrella, inside her baby bassinet under about 50 stuffed animals, inside a box on the top shef in her closet and under her American Girl dool bed. (Z is very skinny.)
The way this started is that Z loves to hide from us and try to jump out and scare us. She still tries to hide from Pere whenever he comes home from work for lunch or at the end of the day. (sometimes he forgets to find her though.) At some point Z asked for help in finding new hiding spaces. Then Pere and I got somewhat competitive about it and kept trying it outdo each other with the best hiding spots. Z loves it and will almost cry if she doesn't get to do her hiding before bed.
and yet another
All three of us used to watch Iron Chef Japan every afternoon during lunch. (They stopped playing it on the Food Channel recently though) Soon after we started watching Iron Chef Z started playing Iron Chef in the tub. Now during every bath Pere, as the Chairman, has to name a theme ingrediant and then Z, using her myriad bath toys, creates Cuisine. She makes up some funny dishes too like turtle soup in duck broth with a side of muppet. Then Pere has to come in and "taste" all the dishes and declare a winner. At some point Z told Pere that she, as the Iron Chef, shouldn't win every time so sometimes Pere gives the match to the "challenger." :)
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I'll let you in on a secret: I never forget to look for her when I come home. It's just that sometimes I get to wondering how long she'll stay hidden.
In the immortal words of Christina Ricci...Do you think me wicked?
I love it! How fun. Violet loves to do accents of all sorts, but of course British especially (first it was from Angelina Ballerina, many years ago, and now of course it's Harry Potter). She likes to do them with dad, but somehow I am not allowed. (Her dad is a fabulous impersonator, so the competition is pretty stiff.)
What fun, so cute! Sara hides when her dad comes home too or he knocks at the front door.
Ami has some British friends and she read the Mary Poppins series, Travers so she went around the house with a British accent for a few months she still uses it when she is playing. She loves Charlie and Lola too.
Has Z read these Utterly Me, Clarice Bean and Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child? They are about 200 pages apiece, between a 5th / 6th grade reading level, so a light read. Ami found them hysterical. Lauren Child also wrote some picture books with Clarice Bean. My Uncle is a Hunkle is the same book as Guess Who’s Babysitting! Then there is Clarice Bean, That’s Me and What Planet are you From, Clarice Bean and of course there are the Charlie and Lola picture books which I think you previously mentioned. There is also one about a princess that we found in the library.
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