“Mama, my hair is definitely all tanglish. You need to comb it.”
– Emily, unhappy with her own painful attempts to comb her hair after bath
Year: 2001
Brushing Emily’s hair in the morning
“Emily, you have hair just like Mama’s– soft, smooth, shiny… and you can’t do a thing with it.”
– Mama, trying to get all Emily’s slippery hair in a neat pony tail
“Mama, I can do one thing with my hair.”
– Emily
“What’s that?”
– Mama
“I can put a hat on it!”
– Emily
At the dinner table
“Mom, it’s too hot! I can’t eat it yet!”
– Emily
“Well, then, just be patient”
– Mama
“But Mom, patient makes me hungry!!”
– Emily
Cleaning up before bedtime
“I’m all done picking up toys!”
– Emily, with enthusiasm but not accuracy
“I see toys over here that need to be picked up.”
– Mama, trying not to sound tired and frustrated
“What else do you see?”
– Emily, after repeating her “all done” speech three more times
“Emily, I see a little girl that I love very much.”
– Mama, who was about to yell and decided it wasn’t worth it
“You know what I see, Mama? I see a big person that I love very much.”
– Emily, making Mama very glad she didn’t yell!
Daddy showing off for Emily…
“Emily…look how big Daddy is!”
– Daddy, reaching up and touching the ceiling
“Wow, you pretty are big!”
– Emily, responding genuinely if not correctly
“You mean, ‘You are pretty big’?”
– Daddy, correcting Emily
“No, I’m kinda small”
– Emily, correcting Daddy
Just after arriving home from picking up dinner
“Emily, tell Mama what happened on the way to the pizza store.”
– Daddy, embarrased
“Daddy missed the store!”
– Emily, excited
“He did?”
– Mama, amazed (not!)
“Yeah…and he turned around!”
– Emily, still excited (really!)
“He did a U-turn?”
– Mama
“No, Mama, Daddy turned around!”
– Emily
While strolling around the neighborhood on a sunny afternoon
“Daddy! There’s a blue balloon and a purple balloon!”
– the ever-observant Emily, noticing the “markers” for a birthday party house
“That’s right, and how many balloons are there?”
– the ever-educating Daddy, never one to pass up an opportunity
“One, two…Two balloons!”
– Emily
“Right again! So, one plus one makes…”
– Daddy
“Two!…”
– Em
“Right!”
– Dad
“…and one makes five, and six makes seven, and eight makes nine…”
– Emily, who apparently doesn’t quite get it yet…
Entering Shannon’s Parent’s house to pick up the girls after work
“Your 10-month-old ripped the door off of my kitchen cabinet!”
– Shannon’s mother, pointing out the amazing fact that Amanda is a pint-sized powerhouse. She had really done it too — pulled the door open, despite the child-lock, with enough force to separate the top hinge from the cabinet.
Reading a gardening book
“That’s not a strawberry. That’s a raspberry.”
– Shannon, pointing to a picture of a bush in the book
“(giggling) BRAAAAAAAAAP!!!”
– Emily, leaning over and blowing a “raspberry” on Mama’s tummy
At the dinner table
“That’s all there is! Sorry Charlie!”
– Shannon to Amanda, after feeding the last of the peaches to Amanda
“Mama! That’s not Charlie! That’s Amanda!”
– Emily, shocked at Mama’s apparent memory lapse
You must be logged in to post a comment.