Conversations and events occuring in the Lee household of late:
1. “What are you doing Cherub?”
“I’m not doing a poo.”
That’s nice, but it leaves so many less palatable options. Turned out she was licking the glue stick like it was a lollypop.
I tell her put the lid back on that thing, please. She tries and tries, with much grunting and groaning. Then she gets a bright idea. “I need to go in the lounge room.” Sure enough upon a move to the lounge room she’s able to screw on the lid. Must be the air in there, it’s lighter or something, like on the summit of Everest. Who knew?
2. Princess has taken to correcting the Cherub on her speech lately, now that she’s a schoolie and knows everything. The other day Cherub was saying she wanted ‘sgetti on toast for dinner. Princess very calmly rolled her eyes and said, “It’s pesgetti, you know.”
3. There is a spider in the corner of the Cherub’s bedroom—a harmless Daddy Long Legs that is helpfully keeping the insect population down in kid central. Cherub comments on it every time we’re in there together. The other day, as always, I say “Don’t worry about him, he’s not interested in you.” Thoughfully, Cherub replies “No, that’s why he’s not talking to me.”
Is it safe to say he never will?
4. The other day Princess asked if we could go to the park on the way home from school. Feeling disinclined, I refused as is my perogative. Princess responded angrily “Fine then. If you’re not going to take me to the park I might as well stay home and eat all day.”
Are they really the only two options?
5. We were recently given a lovely old piano which we’ve encouraged the kidlets to try out. Yesterday Cherub was playing it, very carefully removing the sheet music from inside the piano chair and spreading it out where it’s supposed to go. She points to a line and says ‘I’m going to play that one’. Okay. She bashes on the keys haphazardly for a while, then collects her sheet music and hops off the chair. Refering to the sheet music she said ‘I need to get another one, this one doesn’t work.’
Sometimes I think my girls need whole books written about them.
Sami
May 21, 2011 @ 13:41:29
LMAO Sami, your girls are wonderful 😀
Just think in 10 yrs they will be even, er better lololol
May 21, 2011 @ 14:05:32
lol. I think the ‘I might as well stay home and eat’ drama gave me a glimpse of what’s ahead in the teenage phase. Shudder.
May 21, 2011 @ 14:20:34
These are great little slices of life with kids! I was bursting out in laughter reading this. My husband came running in to make sure I was all right!
May 21, 2011 @ 14:22:55
Good to know he’s the type who comes running in a crisis, Christine.
May 21, 2011 @ 23:46:36
ROFLMAO that was too cute and too funny!!! 🙂 My 5 year old (I call him monkey) has discovered that some people refer to balls as nuts. So now he’s taken to running around grabbing himself and yelling, “Oww my nuts!” great huh?
KittyKelly
May 22, 2011 @ 20:40:14
Owww, that’s funny Kitty 🙂
May 22, 2011 @ 21:00:29
“I’m not doing a poo.” Oh, God, I love it.
The Demon Princess spent a considerable amount of time today telling me she only felt like she needed to do a wee, and the wee in fact was only in her brain and not waiting abover her “bits” to come out. I still don’t know how to response to that.
May 23, 2011 @ 16:45:52
ROFL
Hilarious Sami. And the piano story?
Well, one day Mr 6, who considers himself a bit of a math genius, was walking through the house working out sums on his little calculator.
Then we hear:
“Dad, the calculator’s wrong. It didn’t get the same answer as I did.”
May 23, 2011 @ 21:19:00
All our kids are geniuses! (genii?)
Aug 05, 2011 @ 09:31:42
It´s so funny, I m sure that the calculator was wrong,
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