I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve been here, but I’ve been busy being a fancy wedding photographer and all so my little blog got neglected (post a comment if you want access to the wedding pictures!). But, just because I haven’t been oversharing here doesn’t mean I haven’t been recording funny stuff to share with you. So, here are the gems from the past couple of weeks.
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All three of my sister’s kids were sick with strep throat a few weeks ago. Mallory kept telling me that Lauren has “stripe throat”.
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STB: “you’re my favorite girl”
MCB: “yep, I’m your favorite girl in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD”
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MCB: “That makes my feelings sad when you call me dillydallier”
STB: “Can I call you ‘Mallory pumpkinhead?”
MCB: “That makes my feelings happy when you call me Mallory pumpkinhead”
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She’s big into this role reversal thing – so she’ll tell me “You are the big sister and I am the mommy. OK?” And then we have conversations like this:
MCB (Mommy): “what do you want for dinner, big sister?”
STB (big sister): “I want mac & cheese ALL OF THE TIME” (imitating what M usually says to us).
MCB/Mommy: “well, we have pizza sometimes”. We are so busted.
We also take this in the direction where I (the big sister) get grumpy and whiney and Mallory (the mom) tells me I’m going to get a timeout if I talk like that again. This is frustrating because it means she knows what will happen if she whines and is grumpy but she doesn’t care about the consequence.
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The other day Mallory told us that when the snow melted she wanted to use her finger paints (since we usually put paper down outside and strip her down to her unders and let her go to town). Being the good mom that I am can be, I told her she could paint in the house. And then this happened:
MCB: “I’m painting this for you mommy. It is so so pretty.”
STB: “you know what else is pretty? YOU.”
MCB: “well, I’m not wearing a dress today.”
STB: “you aren’t pretty because you aren’t wearing a dress?”
MCB: “well, I am but when I wear a dress I am super pretty.”
Also heard while painting:
MCB: “See I am using my colorful paint to make this so so pretty for you.”
and
MCB: “want me to make you a tent for you daddy?”
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She was helping Carson eat dinner and Carson kept throwing his food on the floor. Mallory reprimanded him by saying “CARSON! I told you a HUNDRED of TIMES! We DON’T throw our FOOD on the FLOOR!”
It is a little scary to think what she says at school as she is imitating what we say to her at home.