"Daddy, I don't want to talk about that right now."
What are we going to do when she reaches her teen years?
We have noticed that she says the funniest things, mostly we wonder where she gets it from since we don't often use the sayings she comes up with. Lately, whenever something goes wrong, she's been exclaiming:
"Oh nuts! Not again!"
Tonight as soon as I stepped through the door, it started.
Brea had a head full of thoughts and it was all coming out of her mouth non-stop. She had comments about the snow, comments about her books, how I had to be quiet because Rhys was sleeping, she wanted to know what was in the shopping bags.
Then Craig stepped in and mentioned he could take Brea to a game with him tonight.
"Is there a bench Daddy?"
"Can I sit on the bench? Not the big bench, just a little one for me."
I said I could pack a snack to go with her so she would stay put on the bleachers.
"In my new lunch box Mommy?"
"Then I will sit and not move but after I eat my snack I can play and I will run, run run!"
I handed her the lunch box as Craig helped her with her coat.
"Oh MY! It's SO heavy!" (complete with the emphasis)
They came home early because the game was forfeited. I asked what happened.
"We had to come home, the game wasn't there!"
"Daddy asked his friend but there was no game so Daddy asked another friend."
"We went to another school, not Daddy's school, another one."
Then she said she was hungry... this was within an hour of eating dinner.
She proceeded to eat 4 cookies, two sunflower butter sandwiches, a glass of soy milk.
Finally, after a bath it was time for bed.
She wanted "Puff the Magic Dragon" for her song. I started to sing.
"You can sing without the book." - we have the song in picture book form
"Do you use your brain? I need a book to sing songs, when I am this big (indicating four fingers) I will sing with my brain too but not yet."
"Where did Jackie go? Does Puff have a new girlfriend?" - at the end of the picture book, a grown-up Jackie returns with his daughter
"Is that like me? I am Daddy's daughter."
"Where's the mommy? Is Jack the daddy? Does he have a son? Did they have a baby and a daughter and a son? Is the mommy in another book?"
It was a REALLY long version of the song.
Meanwhile for those of you who are wondering...
Rhys was along for all of this just without all the words.
He had dinner and a snuggle with me. When Brea came home he ate 3 cookies and a quarter of a sandwich, he had milk. He splashed in the bath and attempted to drink the water numerous times. He hugged Brea while she had her hair blow-dried. Brea went to get a clip for her hair afterwards, he returned with two bow in his hair as well which he kept patting to make sure they were staying put.
I was holding him and dancing while I tried to sing "Puff" for Brea. And now while his sister is sleeping, he's playing with Daddy's iphone. He had a late nap but it's off to bed for him too.
Now you see why it takes so long sometimes for me to get a blog up :o)
