
Olivia: Mom, you're hairy!
Mom: Why do you say that? (laughing)
Olivia: Because you have lots of hair on your arm!
Mom: (noticing that the light is hitting the hairs on my arm just right) Oooooh, I see.
Olivia: (looking down) Daddy's hairy too! I'm hairy, too! We're all hairy!
Mom: Olivia, you have a lot of strawberry jam on your face. Careful, you're getting it in your hair.
Olivia: Mom, if I had a tongue on my forehead, I could lick the jam out of my hair!
Scene: Olivia lying straight and stiff on her bed with her eyes closed, but definitely not asleep, wearing her blue and purple dance/tutu outfit.
Mom: Olivia, what are you doing?
Olivia: Shhhh! I'm waiting for true love's first kiss!
Scene: Family together eating a picnic dinner at an old school on the merry-go-round. Olivia is swinging on the bars and going under and over them.
Olivia: I'm a pole dancer!
MomandDad: What?!!!
Olivia: I'm dancing on a pole, so I'm a pole dancer!
(I still have not decided where in the world she picked up this term--she watches Disney movies and PBS--that's it!--maybe it was just a coincidence...)
Ever cringe when you are out in public and see someone/thing that you just know your kid is going to say something rude about and not know she's being rude?
Scene: Our new renters, Mike and Betty, were over working in the garden. (We said we could share the garden this year.) Betty begins to smoke a cigarette (she has tried many times to quit but hasn't been able to yet--but she never smokes inside).
Olivia: Betty, my daddy said you look gross with a cigarette! (Of course David never said this--only that cigarettes are gross and will make us sick.)
Mike: You're right, Olivia, it is gross.
Betty: They are yucky, they make you sick.
Needless to say, when I went out there and Mike told me about their little conversation, I was mortified, but they seemed to understand it was just the way it goes with little kids sometimes. Still, I hope her feelings weren't hurt! They are really the nicest people. Of course we also had the "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" talk with Olivia later.
Olivia's favorite movies right now are the Princess Diary movies and Mary Poppins. I know she has seen all of them far too many times, because she can readily quote all of them, and does, all the time. For instance, whenever she is told she can't do something she wants to do, or is disappointed in some way, she lies down with a sad face and says dramatically, "Maybe I'm not a princess after all..." (big sigh) She walks around the house singing "Gernogia, Gernogia!" (Genovia--the fictional country of which Mia is a princess) or sometimes when I say I have a job for her she starts in on Mary Poppins singing "Spoonful of Sugar."
Olivia's favorite new phrase: "Oh. My. Heavens!"
I hope you get as many laughs as I do out of this little girl and her craziness--either way, at least I finally "wrote that down," right?
Hahaha I like the tongue and the forehead! And she clearly watches too many princess movies if she thinks she can just lie in her bed waiting for true love's kiss! I guess we don't watch princess movies yet. This one shocked me more than the pole dancer. hahaha
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny. I wish we could see you more often and hear some first hand. I noticed you said renters, does this mean you are moving to your new home or what. Let us know. I hope it is all working out for your family.
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