Infamous Xiana-isms

• Xiana came into the computer room with her tutu and ballet slippers on exclaiming, "Now we have to do the amazing part!!!!" She is so theatrical.
• When at the grocery store there was a man in overalls and Xiana said, "look at that farmer."
• She is obsessed with playing "sweetie." I never realized how much I call her sweetie until she developed this game of make-believe where she is the mom and (insert other person here) is the "sweetie" aka child. She can play this game for hours, making breakfast, dinner, going sledding, to the ocean, etc. She cons my dad into playing it all the time and one night played it until she went to sleep (having a slumber party at grandma and grandpa's house). My dad said that before she went to bed she asked,"can we play sweetie again when we wake up?" Grandpa assured her that they could and, true to form, when she awoke the first words out of her mouth were, "let's go play sweetie."
• My sil Tosh watched her for me one morning and when I arrived to pick her up she said, "me and Rowan had a pot luck in his bedroom!"
• She continues to love Sunbeams and primary. A few weeks ago the primary secretary subbed for her class. She later told me, "she is so intelligent and she knows her scriptures so well. She answers all the questions. Last lesson was about creation and she was the one teaching the class!" It makes me very proud. I'd like to think that reading scriptures every night is paying off... in reality I owe a lot of gratitude to the Living Scriptures!
• I came to pick her up from my parent's house and she asked, "do you wanna see the super awesomest thing?" She then proceeded to fall straight back on the bed. She later attempted the same trick on the floor with less awesomeness.
• While driving down the street she suddenly said to me, "wouldn't it be so cool if you were Kylee's mommy?"
• Another reoccurring game is that of her and her husband. She has to pick out her outfits for her dates with her husband, or tell a story about her husband. One day I told her to put her socks on and she said, "I don't want to wear any socks because my husband doesn't wear any cause he is still a beast and his name is Isaac." Later I overheard her and Ekco playing downstairs. Their conversation went like this... X: did you hear I have a husband now? E: no. what's his name? X: Ken E: "oh, I loved you in your movie. You did a great job acting. X: thanks, I heard you and your husband went out on a date. How was it? E: great! This discourse continued through the duration of the weekend. They planned their outfits for their weddings, the ball, their dates, etc. It was quite comical.
• Did I mention she loves playing "sweetie"? She asked me what I would like for breakfast the other day while she was mommy and then proceeded to give me a plate with a fork saying, "here's your breakfast sweetie. It's pancakes with real maple syrup and I cut it in pieces for you."
• She had been asking my parents if they had seen her "little guy" anywhere. Apparently she was asking for him for weeks. My dad found her ET doll and immediately realized that was what she was looking for. He called to let us know that he had found it. I relayed the message. She said, "Oh great, I have been worrying about that."
• famous last words :"this jump is gonna be fantastic!"
• She also loves to play the piano and have my parents sing the hymns. One day she asked my mom if she would play so that Xiana could sing. She was holding the hymn book which my mom asked for. Xiana adamantly refused. Mom said, "I can't play the songs without the book." Indignantly Xiana insisted, " I can't sing the songs without the book!"
• She told me a story the other day and finished with, "It's cracking me up... I have tears in my eyes."
• Her favorite color is purple and she tells anyone who will listen.
• She told me, "I am going on a date with my husband... it's gonna be a play date."
• At the aquariums at Scheels we found a fish that looks just like Nemo. She screamed into the glass, "Hi Nemo! I saw your movie!"
• My favorite reoccurring line I hear while she's playing is, "dangit, I can't find my make-believe (fill in the blank)." Apparently those make-believe items are great hiders.
• While leaving Walmart one afternoon she was exuberantly singing a made up song entitled, "I have Fun in Everything I Do." I daresay it's true.
• After a primary lesson on the Holy Ghost she began expressing thanks for Him in her prayers and talking about Him quite regularly. Then she assured me, "mommy, we can hear the holy ghost in our hearts."
• She keeps asking when she's going to get a step mom. I told her she isn't because her mommy and daddy aren't getting divorced. Then she asked if her daddy was Ekco's step dad. Pretty ironic.
• Again while playing make believe I heard her telling her doll, "I realize that we are in a dream."
• One evening before dinner she kept asking me for a snack. I kept telling her no because it was almost dinner time. She called me a dagnut. She then asked, "do you know what a dagnut is?" "no," I replied. "It's a mean person that won't let their kids have a snack before dinner."
• The last few nights in her prayers she's said, "thank you for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."
• She saw a flag this morning waving in the air and said, "look at that mom, it looks like one of the spicy candies (peppermints)." I said, "no sweetie, that's an American flag." She said, "oh, like American Idol!" Don't worry we had a lengthy conversation about America after that. She then assured me that Abraham Lincoln was the president. She does have a Lincoln fascination.
• She was asked to say the prayer in primary and she marched up there and did it all by herself. When I picked her up from class that day I was told that she isn't on their rolls yet. I explained that I had just discovered that she is still in the Wingfield ward, head of household according to church records. Her teacher replied, "well, if anybody could do it, it's Xiana."
• She choked on a cadbury egg and threw up (it was quite scary). After everyone was calmed down she said, "I smell my nose and it smells like throw up."