Pico DiPaolo

There were a few funny things that I wanted to write down from our recent trip to Wimberley:

–Now that Elise has mastered some words she thinks she’s a know-it-all:

Petie was reading to our nephew, Joaquin and said “oh look, Joaquin, regalo!”  Elise was walking by and giggled saying “regalo?” like “what is mommy making up now?”.

Nana asked Joaquin, “do you like Elise’s chappeau?” and Elise said “no…that’s a hat”

–When Elise was walking with us in the river she starting singing “stepping over stepping stones, 1, 2, 3…” at first I thought it was funny that she chose a seemingly random song from her music class.  Petie reminded me that the song continues on “the river’s very deep and the river’s very wide….”  So she associated that song with “river” in it to walking in the river.

–One day Joelle was being moody.  She sometimes gets into such a mood that she just gets into a downward spiral and ends up demanding something “NOW” (which is now copied by Elise…) . To get her out of it I said “why don’t we make up a song?” So we went line by line singing it over and over until we memorized each line.  We ended up with the following song and Joelle remembered it well enough to recite it all day long:

“There was once a pear that had a mustache…and a mouth…and it was pink…and it was tiny….and it was crunchy…and it liked to eat horses….and it liked to swim on peacocks….and it got shot out of a cannon…and then it got put on a flag…THE END”.

Whatever works to get her out of a bad mood…

–Elise has been getting sick sometimes on the trips to Wimberley, usually after about 25-40 minutes.  Shortly before the trip Petie was taking Joelle (with Elise in tow) to a birthday party and had accidentally taken her to the wrong movie theater.  This plus inclement weather meant the car trip had taken about 25 minutes.  Joelle was pretty good about it but at one point she asked “mommy, how long have we been in the car?”  When Petie answered “22 minutes”, Joelle said “oh no……Elise is gonna get sick!”

Petie has a saying – “commercials only work on kids and dumb people” and we have definitely seen that they work on kids lately.

A few weeks ago Joelle was watching American Idol and she came in and said “Dad, I heard that Zyrtec works better on allergies so maybe we should use that instead of Claritin”.

When we were getting toothpaste at the store Joelle said she wanted Crest because it was the best.  I asked why and she said “because the commercial said it gets your teeth whiter and cleaner than other toothpastes.”  She was so proud of her informed buying decision.