Wow was I busy. I forgot the update my blog for the last FIVE years! Silly me. All my wittiness, charm, and charisma have dwindled from the continuous sleeplessness, addition of another child, home ownership, and private practice building. Since I'm old and boring and my word retrieval skills are just not, what's the word? Well anyway, I am rededicating this blog to my children and the witty things they say. I have been tracking both kids' humorous observations, questions, and stories since they began talking. As a speech pathologist, we call this a language sample. As a mom, it's just payback for the torture they put me through. Enjoy this future 16 year old Maya and 14 year old Ari!

Back in 2013, when Maya was just 2, she had an odd focus on her knees and an interesting way of expressing that interest. On a trip to Florida that winter, she was put in shorts with no memory of wearing shorts in the past. She stared down at herself and said, "my knees are outside!" And they were. Smart kid. In synagogue later that month, she then said, "my knees are in shuel!" As was the rest of you, my child. What's up with your knees?

Then the spring before her brother arrived, two-year old Maya sat with her dad and me at the dinner table. She leaned over and let a HUGE adult volumed fart rip. We call a fart a "flootsie" (floots is the Hebrew word). Maya laughed and looked at us and confidently stated, "Maya big flootsie, Mommy big flootsie...." Drumroll...."Daddy big penis!" I think this anecdote might embarrass my husband more than her, but I think it indicates her understanding of anatomy and how the body works according to gender. Boys have penises and girls fart. Both true.

Pictured: Maya and her knees on that Florida trip, Spring 2013