My Friend the Munster

Soooo... one of my beagles Oz tends to be a little loud when he is going out the back door. No matter what the time. I try and shush him and occasionally say the dreaded "shut up". Of course, Jo has picked up on this... just not quite right. She was letting Oz out of his crate and as he was whining, Jo kept saying "Shut Down Oz, Shut Down!" It took me a moment to get what she was trying to tell him.

Jozie really likes my new tattoo. She says she likes the "dancer" and her "name". So score one for mom, or so I thought. That was until she said, "Mommy, why did you get a tattoo that won't come off?". I told her how much it means to me and so I wanted it on my body forever. Her response? "Well Momma, I like my tattoos because I can put them on and then when I don't like it anymore, I can wash it off and I can put on another one!" I told her that those are the best kind.

Jozie went with her Grandparents on a luncheon playdate with a girl she was meeting for the first time. When I asked her if she had fun she said "Yes, she was nice! She was pretty, but not as pretty as I thought she would be." WHAT??? So we discussed it and it seems that this little girl was blonde, but Jozie thought she would look prettier with "our color hair". What do you say to that? I mean she thought she was pretty, just not apparently reaching her full beauty potential. Who says this at 4?

As Dan picked Jo up from school yesterday, they were laying down some cement near her school for parking lot for the teachers (currently the teachers seem to park pretty far out and walk in). Dan mentioned this to Jozie and she asked why they need a parking lot and Dan said to park their cars. Jozie said that the teachers don't need cars, they walk to school. Dan said "So you think all the teachers just live around here and walk? What about Mary and Cari? They're our friends and have cars and they're teachers". Jozie said "Nope. Real Teachers Do Not Drive Cars!". Sorry teachers.... you aren't real if you drive!

Jozie's school had Crazy Hat Day on 1/29/10. If you wanted to make / wear a hat you paid $1 to help them raise money for some new recess equipment. Jozie was definitely down with it. She wanted to make a hat they had on nickjr.com with Hoho. He is a little monkey on the show Ni Hao Kai Lan. Dan said she looked like a monkey pope because the hat stood straight off her head. Here is Jozie wearing her homemade Ni Hao Kai Lan Hoho hat.

When I tell Jozie I love her she says she loves me more and then I say, no I love you more and so on and so forth. Lately she is telling me that her love is longer than mine! I don't mind that her love is longer than mine (although I disagree with it), but it makes me all warm and fuzzy when she says it :-)