Minky: “Promise me that you won’t tell mommy this. Sometimes I think mommy is stupid. And sometimes I think you are stupid. Then later I think that you and mommy aren’t really stupid; then I think I’m stupid.”
- told to Dad
Archive for June, 2010
Stupid
Easily, Safely, Learning How
These days I barely write down the pithy things Coco says. I have a note in my phone about the above phrase but I am not sure anymore what it was in reference to, though it had to do with something I don’t like her doing, like using an extra sharp knife to cut things or closing the car door without help.
Our little dear thinks she is far older than she is and gets quite ticked off when we tell her she can’t do things that we see as potentially dangerous. If you saw the way she waves a knife around, you’d have a better idea about what I mean.
Brain Freeze
Coco: “Brain freeze does nothing; brainwash does. Now you know it doesn’t do any harm. I learned this from Ruff Ruffman (a PBS children’s show).
A Lecture
Recently, we were at the dining room table. Coco had done something–I cannot remember the offense anymore–and I told her that if she did that again she would get a lecture.
“Is that when someone farts on your head?” she asked, trying to be funny.
“No,” Larry said, “it just feels like it.”
Parker Pen
Last night, well after the time we said goodnight to Coco, she was in her room writing an illustrated story in the dark. She does this a lot. In I walk and sit down. She tells me about the story: it’s snowing in summer, someone gets squashed by a huge ice cube; it’s very imaginative stuff.
“Hey, that’s my Parker pen,” I said, watching her embellishing her drawings.
“It’s not yours anymore,” was her reply.
Bedtime
Bedtime has become somewhat unbearable. It is at least two hours before the little chippy falls asleep.
I just went to check on her and she told me she had been crying. When I asked why, she said that she was crying because she wanted to talk to a member of her family.
