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With the new year, Cumorah has apparently learned some new skills.



Skill#1 - faking

I was giving Rivers a dose of Tylenol a couple of days ago during which time Cumorah and I had the following conversation.

Cumorah: Coomah (Cumorah) medicine?

Mom: No, this is Rivers medicine, see her name is written on the bottle. Your medicine is in the cupboard. Rivers is sick, that's why I'm giving her medicine.

Cumorah: I don't feel good. I sick. Ow, owie. (fake coughing)

Mom: I'm not giving you any medicine.

Cumorah then smiled in a funny embarrassed sort of way. It was hilarious that she was trying to fake it. She was even using this pathetic whiny voice like she was really sick. And, yes, she actually likes Tylenol that much.

Just last night she fake cried. I don't remember why, but it was obvious. It might have had something to do with Rivers getting to go downstairs with Brian after bath while Cumorah was still getting into jammies and picking up toys. I got her to laugh when I called her on it.




Skill #2 - scolding

Cumorah pulled Rivers' fingers out of her mouth and said, "Get fingers out mouth! That gross!" Hmmm. I wonder where she has heard that?

Another time right after I told Cumorah to ask in a nice voice instead of a whiny voice and gave her the usual mini-lecture on how to ask for something appropriately, she heard Rivers fussing. She said, "Rivers whining." She looked rather hopeful that Rivers would get a lecture too. I had to explain yet again that Rivers is a baby and Cumorah is a big girl, blah, blah, blah. Life is never fair, is it?



Skill #3 - nose blowing

Wow. This kid has mean nose-blowing skills. It's actually impressive. And four days into her newfound talent, it's automatic. You put a tissue up to her nose and she starts blowing. It's kind of nice having a little bit more time between nose cleaning now.






* Just a note... prepare yourselves for an upcoming blogging post-a-thon here at The Taylor Adventures. There are some posts I wanted to get up for November and December that I never did get up and I'm still going to do them so that I have all our adventures recorded for posterity. Not that posterity would have ever noticed if I never did get around to it...