Whit Wednesday: Talking John and Tummy Rubs

A few tidbits from the Jayniac:

• On the way home yesterday after I picked up Jayna, she dropped something on the car floor and I couldn't reach it to give it back to her.  She apparently had a rough emotional day yesterday and everything set her off.  She began crying...REAL CRYING...because I was driving and couldn't give her back her "newspaper."  (It was actually her newsletter from school.)  I stopped at the gas station to get gas and right before I got out of the car to pump gas, she yelled at me, "Give it to me NOW, mommy!!!"  I replied, "And now you'll wait until we get home."  The whole time I was pumping the gas, I could hear her in there throwing the fit of her life.  When I got back in the car, I said to her in a very calm and neutral voice, "Jayna, why are you crying?"  I was attempting to refocus her attention...and it worked.  She looked up at me and said, "I upset because....I got cry on my jacket."  A little later we had a talk about the fact that when you cry it's called tears.  She says, "I gonna tell daddy about tears when he gets home.  I think he doesn't know that."
• After we got home, she began to cry again.  When I asked her what was wrong, she said, "I fell on the step at school yesterday and all my foots hurt."  I replied, "What??"  "She said, "This one hurt AND this one hurt.  All of 'em."
• She loves the app "Talking John" (the bacteria) on my iPhone.  She likes to feed them about 20 donuts and then sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" so they'll all sing back to her.  When we're done I tell her to say goodbye to them.  When she does, she says to me, "They say byebye back mommy!!"  all the while not realizing that they're repeating her.
• I have a friend whose 2-year-old refers to yesterday as "lasterday."  As in last night and yesterday put together.  Jayna says "tolater."  As in tomorrow and later put together.  She filled up her potty chart over the weekend and I put a new one up.  I said to her, "Jayna, if you keep filling potty charts and I have to keep buying you stuff, you're gonna have to get a job!"  She replied with, "No, mommy.  I just a little girl.  I gettin' big though.  I get a job tolater."
• She looooves a good tummy rub.  We'll be sitting on the couch watching television and she'll say, "Mommy, you rub my tummy please."  I will begin and then stop not even really knowing I stopped, so she'll grab my hand and rub her tummy with my hand.  And if I use the front of my hand and she wants me to use the back of my hand, she'll say, "No, like this mommy."  And show me how to do it.  Pretty picky for a kid getting her tummy rubbed.
• A couple nights ago at the dinner table she looked up from her dinner, looked at Chris and me and said, "Mommy and daddy, do you still love me?  Cause I still love you."  Holy. Cow.  I died from the adorable. :)