This started as stuff Evie has said that I've remembered to write down. If only I had started sooner. I've missed things like "I almost agot", "Mmmmm, goot", "Farshfellows are yummy, yummy, yummy", "All the people", "Hubba, Hubba, Hubba", "Baa Baa Boo", "Cowabunga, Dude!", "A Lion Guard Bliund Bag", "I do it", "Oh, yaaaah", "I'm a Haidband Haid", "Dey Cazzy". As of 2017, we've added stuff Andy says, too. I sometimes forget to post it before I've forgotten what they said or did so this is by no means all the funny things that have happened. And you also don't get to see the looks on their faces, the tone of voice they used or the hand gestures that go along with it. I wish I'd had something like this for my kids!
Evie and I go out and look at the moon every night before brushing her teeth. We were talking about how interesting it was to watch it move across the sky thru the month. I brought up how it started out on one side and then used to hide behind the house but now it doesn’t hide anymore. Her comment:
“Maybe it was just nervous?!?”
Evie – “When I paint, I am not perfect. I just try my very best. I’m not a perfecter. I’m a tryer.”
For Cuddle Time we’re watching a new video with a new song. Evie has proclaimed it her new favorite and told me it stays in her brain all day and all night. When I said that’s one of the good things about music, you can rehear it in your head, she said:
Evie – “I don’t like it when that happens.”
Nana – “Oh, no. Why not?”
Evie – “Because then my brain sings it to my mouth and what if my mouth needs to be zip?”
Last night Evie asked if it was Cuddle Time, I said yes, she crawled up into my lap, I started the show we usually watch and she immediately asked me to pause it. She ran off and came back with her bean bag chair and put it beside my chair. The following conversation took place:
Nana – “Hey, what are you doing?”
Evie – “I wanted a different spot.”
Nana – “Well, the term Cuddle Time implies we were gonna cuddle!?!”
Evie – “Well, we are still together and Cuddle Time is really about being together.”
How can you argue with that? We held hands for the rest of Cuddle Time.
Evie – “It’s a toot-toot train!”
But Evie started a conversaton with her mother like this:
“While you were feeding the rest of my brother….”
On the way to school, her and Mom Mom were playing rock paper scissors and this conversation took place:
Mom Mom – ” Rock Paper Scissors Shoot. ….Wait….what’s that?”
Evie – “It’s a stick!”