some quotes by my little lady...

to her pediatrician who does house calls and she is slightly in love with him:
"do you bring your lunch to work? what color is your lunch box?"
with a sly grin:
"are you going to give my little brother a shot?"
as doc is leaving our house, awkwardly because he know's it's coming and never knows how to respond:
"bye doctor wood, i love you!"

when discussing her birthday:
"and i am getting a cousin for my birthday."
me in spanish- "oh yeah, max will be a big brother and you will get a cousin"
m: "well, babies come out when they are ready to come out, mamá"

after doing anything "wrong":
"sorry mamá! but you still love me, right?"

to her little brother when they are sitting at the table eating and he throws something on the floor:
"¡en la mesa junot!"
gives item back and helps him put it on the table
"gracias, muy bien"

when pretending to play store with me:
"will you pay this señora?" ("to pay" is synonymous with "to buy" but also "to ring-up")
"do you want another one? Here's another one. do you want this? well you can't have it, you have to leave some for eli" (i think it's funny when she uses our first names)

she has started taking an interest (it only took 4 years) in speaking spanish. but her oral abilities are way behind her comprehension, so she just calls out single words like when we are walking:
 "look, mamá, 'bicicleta!'"
or she has started repeating back things she hears on a regular basis but gets it slightly wrong:
"sí, no como" (should be: "sí, ¿como no?")
or, "te quiero más en el mundo mamá"
close enough.

funny things

two months have gone by since i last wrote! i have been distracted, with little time to reflect deeply on a topic to write about.

BUT, i have been meaning to document some of the things that two-and-a-half-year-old m says but keep forgetting to. in an homage to 4321crazymamma.blogspot.com, (who might consider changing her blog name in a few weeks) i thought i would share some funny things here...if nothing else, to have a record of them.

while building with her BT friend maya, i asked m to invite maya to build a building with her. she did: "do you want to build with me? yeah or no? yeah or no? taaalk to meee! taaaaaalk to me!" with little space between words to let the poor girl answer...

when erk was carrying a mat downstairs that is not that heavy but big and awkward: "papa, that's heavy! do you need some help?"

while poking her finger through a hole in my shirt "maybe bubby can fix it for you?"

when handing me my prenatal vitamin at the dinner table: "just one, ok?" after i explain that i need to take two, "say, 'can i have a turn?' ok good job".

every day in the car a different part of her morning meeting routine spoken aloud to herself, here's one i remember:
"hello (insert classmate name here), you're my friend, and i like you, ok, put your fish up! good job! here's a stamp" (repeat)

chloe

as a kid i believed i was a dog in a past life (maybe because of the way dogs would always sniff my butt?) they seemed to like me and i them. only now as a 30 year old  dog-owner (with no dog training skills, as you can see) have i discovered that i probably just always wanted one.

procrastination

i don't mean to toot my own horn, but i am an excellent procrastinator.

instead of writing/submitting the 80 reports i had building up a couple of weeks ago, i went to petco.

i went because i thought that my dying fish just needed a companion to be happy. now i'm convinced that he's just dying...not out of loneliness, but because he is a fish.

when i realized that buying a companion fish was a little complicated because betas only like their female counterparts for a little before they eat them (rude) i decided to get a doggy bed/mat-type thing for my boyfriend's dog in case she ever visited again (note that chloe - the dog - came only one other time before the bed purchase)

1. i thought if chloe ever came again, i wanted her to feel cozy
2. why did i get a dog bed when my intention was to get a fish?
3. do you know what procrastinating is?

the reports were due today and despite not handing all of them in on time, i was very productive in my writing them today. i really need to be under a lot of stress/time constraint to be productive. unfortuneately i can only work well when i have less time than is physically needed to complete a job properly. i never read catch 22, but i think that's what that is.

ps chloe came a few days after i bought her bed and i'm pretty sure that if she could speak, she would have told me she loved it.

thanks

a couple of years ago i sent my first mass text message. i don't love the idea of mass messaging in general, but ever since that year, it has been a tradition for me to do it on the day that is about a lot of things, including acknowledging the people you care about in your life - thanksgiving

sometimes i get a response back, sometimes i don't. one of my favorite response from people is "who is this?"

aaaaand it's tuesday

i got my conductor this morning. i think it was what i needed after last night's experience riding the subway.

right before stopping at 14th street where he reminded everyone that we could transfer to neeeeeeeeeeew jersey, he also reminded us to have a happy thanksgiving.

"thanksgiving. giving thanks; being thankful doesn't have to happen only one day of the year, folks - you can do it every day"

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the things kids say...

here are some of the things my students have said in class to me (6th and 8th grade)

j: "i don't have my homework - s (another student) stole it from me to copy my answers"
(shocking because j's answers are almost always wrong)

o: "i didn't know we had homework"
(yes you did, i told you in class and it was posted online)

o: "i didn't know there were questions on the back of the sheet of homework"
(meaning you never picked up the sheet of paper)

n: "i don't need to take notes, i know all of this already"
(i offered to give him a pop quiz the next class)

n: "i'll take a pop quiz next class, i know all of this"
(not sure if it was the embarrassment of not knowing the answer when i stumped him with an unjustly hard question, or if my offering to quiz the whole class on his behalf is what inspired him to take out his notebook and take notes)

j: "you have cool sneakers"
(thanks)

more on perspective

"if you can make a girl laugh you can make her do anything"