she says...

my southern baby...
cassidy has a little southern accent. writing it phonetically doesn't do it justice, but i'll give a try...

*be'elles - bells
*up-e-side doywn
*be-yd
*re-yd
*tweyelve


*my xander brother
*mom, did you know what (very clear, enunciating each word)
*i love you 2 and half -while showing the sign language "i love you"
*i don't feel good (possible hypochondriac)
*you happy with me? -meaning that there are times i tell her i am not happy with her

and you know when kids say something incorrectly or sing the wrong words to a song you try to correct them? well, some of them are just too cute so i leave it alone. and then i'm always sad when they figure it out and start saying it the right way. for example....
cassidy loves to sing and have sung to her "twinkle twinkle little star". for a many months this is how she would sing it...

twinkle twinkle how i wonner
up above a like a diamond

she says her prayers...she's been praying for a while, but now she is thinking about it and mimicking some of the things she hears us say or xander include in his (which are getting more thought out too!) but since christmas she has been praying for "have a shiney nose". we asked her if she was praying for rudolph and after a while told her she didn't need to keep praying for him or she could call him rudolph. we cracked up laughing those first weeks hearing her prayers, now she annouces to us before she says it that she is going to pray for "have a shiney nose". it is always what she says after beginning her prayer. pretty funny.

(i've been working on this one for a while, if i think of more i may add them in, cause i know there are more cassidy-isms!)