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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s no secret that Zara has older brothers. \u00a0She pretends to gallop on horses and shoots imaginary birds through the car windows. \u00a0But it gets\u00a0really funny when she mimics with no idea what she is saying. \u00a0Recently she started asking (in a rather whiny voice to boot), “Can I have some fwee [free] time?” \u00a0Um, isn’t that what two year olds do all day every day??<\/p>\n
Other times she gets all glow-y and says, “I’n an idea!”<\/p>\n
For awhile she would ask, “What time is it?” multiple times a day. \u00a0And then when I answered she got indignant because in her mind it was always<\/em> 4:30.<\/p>\n She gets pool and Pooh all mixed up and and so we often get asked, “Can me watch shwimming in du Pooh?”<\/p>\n That little shw is just the cutest, even if it makes her sound inebriated. \u00a0“Oh, she sho shweeeeeeeeet,” she croons over Bella dozens of times a day.<\/p>\n She was so in love with Bella long before she was born and would often ask, “Baby, mommy’s hummy told? [Is the baby in Mommy’s tummy cold?]. No, the baby isn’t cold. \u00a0“Baby Mommy’s hummy ‘ine?” \u00a0Yes, the baby is fine. \u00a0And then she’d be off to play.<\/p>\n She is Miss Independent in capital letters and italics. \u00a0I know this is a rite of passage, but she’s certainly doing a good job of making sure we don’t miss the fact that it’s happening. \u00a0“How we do it?” gets said with only slightly less regularity than “I can mySELF.”<\/p>\n And then she gets all melty and cuddly as soon as she and Bella are both in the same parent’s lap. \u00a0“Do ‘ou ‘ave ‘ou two yittle dirls?<\/p>\n There are so many, many consonants that get replaced. \u00a0She wears ship hops on her feet and says a bad word when she tries to say they fit. \u00a0We split laughing when she watched a video of Liam taken when he was three and her response was, “Whoa. \u00a0He can weally talk well.”<\/p>\n Not only is she independent, she’s pretty sure she can keep Adam and Liam in line singlehandedly. \u00a0Sometimes the boys will throw ball with her. \u00a0She stands at the top of the stairway and one of them will stand at the bottom. \u00a0It doesn’t level the playing field but it definitely makes it less boring for them. \u00a0Once when she went to retrieve the ball, Adam hid. \u00a0She yelled and yelled his name and when he didn’t reappear she said, “Hey, Mommy, A’am not being ‘bedient!<\/p>\n It didn’t take her very long to figure out that Mom’s word is authority so one day when they were tussling on high in the basement and she was too afraid to join them she sat on the steps for a bit. \u00a0Suddenly she declared, “Hey boys, my mom tell me ‘ou ‘ave to dop [stop]. \u00a0I thought it was hysterical until the next day when she tried it on me. \u00a0She wanted something and I said no. \u00a0She looked at me and said quite certainly, “My mom tell me me TAN.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n