Evan: “I buried the mouse that the cat killed.” Me: “Thank you for being so helpful. You didn’t bury it with your hands did you?” Evan: “No. It had some red stuff, so I ran over it with my bike to get all the red out. Then, I buried it. I used a shovel.”
Me: “Did you lose your clothespin today?” Evan: “No. I knew where it was.”
Me: “Evan? What are you doing?” Evan: “I’m just playing.” Me: “Playing what?” Evan: “I have to stack these toys using chopsticks instead of fingers.” Me: “Keep playing.”
“We’re here for a football game.” “I see popcorn! Can we get popcorn instead of football?” “The band is going to play music and then the football players will run on the field.” “Are the footballers still eating their popcorn?” “Why is that lady eating peanuts when there’s popcorn?” “The band is going to sit […]
Evan: “Drive over the wheels of the car in front of you so we can go faster.” Me: “That would cause an accident and we would not go faster.” Amy: “I saw the mailman have an accident.” Evan: “The mailman peed in his pants?!?”
Amy: “I got to go INSIDE the turtle habitat today!” Evan: “Well, I got to go in a lion cage.” Amy: “Nuh-uh. Nobody goes in the lion cage.” Evan: “Did too.” Amy: “If you went in the lion cage, you’d get eaten.” Evan: “I went in the NICE lion’s cage.”
When Amy is sick, she is pitifully sad. Her eyes get round like a Keane painting and they are filled with a sea of tears that quietly roll down her pale, white cheeks. Except for the occasional whimper, she is silent. Amy was in sick mode the entire ride home from Natchez Trace. On the […]
Evan: “Do I have show and tell today?” Me: “No.” Evan: “Is it a treasure box day?” Me: “No.” Evan: “Then, why am I going to school?” Me: “Today is fire drill day.” Evan: “Awesome!”
*alternate title – “Mommy is tah-red”
The 4-y-o dressed himself in his favorite jeans and his favorite shirt. He went through a series of odd poses as he studied the clothing on his tiny frame. “Mom?” “What?” “I . . . look . . . awesome.” “Yes, you do.” “I . . . am a cool dude.” We have entered the […]