"Mommy, will I ever be a tree?"
While playing games on the carpet the other day a huge grin erupted across Charlie's face:
"I don't even need a sharp knife, I can just use this toenail."
Yesterday while Char was at nursery school Kate was playing very quietly in the playroom.
Me: "Kate.....are you being bad?"
Kate: "Yes....to the biznoan"
Yesterday Kate and I were playing a game of animal bingo: Kate picks a turtle card out of the bag:
Kate (looking so incredibly sweet and freckly) "Oh turtles. I love turtles...a lot."
Me: "Me too, I used to have one."
Kate (cocking her head to one side and looking half surprised and half confused) "Really?"
Me: "Yes, when I was little. I had a turtle."
Kate: "Oh. In the backyard?"
Me: "Yes, actually he was in the backyard." (omitting the part that I actually lost him in our backyard and never saw him again.
Kate: "Hmmmm. I have a turtle in my backyard too.....in my dreams"
At which point I started a serious laughing fit that last for at least 5 or 10 minutes. We were both hysterical. I don't know if Kate understood why it was so cute and funny, but she laughed whole-heartedly right next to me. And it made a very difficult day so much better. In fact that moment was the highlight of my day.
5 comments:
Cute!
What's a biznoan? Just wondering...grandma's have to know these things!
that is so freaking hilarious. what was your answer to charlie's question?
I said, "hmmm. well. to answer that we have to talk about reincarnation." and he said: oh (as if he understood)
Pam: as in bad to biz-noan...
Hmmm....Has Charlie been listening to folksinger John Gorka?...."when I grow up I wanna be a tree....", from his song, 'Branching Out'.
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