Clutching her backside: “My bum has a tummy ache.”
After returning from Arizona: “Connecticut is happy to have us back.”
Gesturing with her thumb over her shoulder where her sibling was disobeying: “Mama, you don’t want to see this!”
After Jim asked her how often she prayed: “Twenty miles a day!”
When she wanted me to leave the room, she told me: “Go cook.”
Looking at herself in the mirror: “We’re getting taller, and Jimmy is getting lower.”
After I told her to be careful to not fall while she was roughhousing with her sister: “We won’t fall! We’re great!”
While we were sitting in the family room and Susie nearly impaled her brother with a pencil, I told her to take the pencil into the kitchen. She reluctantly obeyed (after several scoldings), and then stomped back in and informed me: “Mama, I want to make decisions.” I told her that I was in charge. After sulking a few minutes, her eyes brightened and she ran into the kitchen in the direction of the pencil. I asked her what she thought she was doing, and she cheerfully replied, “I know! I’m pretending the family room IS the kitchen!”
From the mouth of babes! I especially like ” Mama, you don’t want to see this! ”
I showed this list to several co-workers last night, and they all lamented that they didn’t write down their children’s sayings when they were small. Kudo’s for you, Emily, on so many levels!
Love,
Grammie