Good morning Everyone!
Here are the latest updates from the wild and wonderful world of “conversations with a ten year old.”
PURPLE
Riding to the movie Saturday:
Kayla: Sneezes, then announces, “Mom, my snot is purple.”
Mom, ignoring the fact that she could have gone all day without that particular information: You’re okay.
Kayla: Actually, my hands are purple.
Dad: Why are your hands purple?
Kayla: Actually its my fingers.
Dad: Why are your fingers purple?
Kayla: I don’t know…
Mom starts laughing, effectively ending the conversation.
An example of the kind of “nothing” that goes on at our house…
NOTHING
Another conversational trick that Kayla has adopted lately is the convenient use of the word “nothing.” She however is using it in a slightly different context than the designer of the word intended it to be used. Most conversations go like this:
Mom, hearing strange and ominous sounds coming from Kayla’s bedroom: Kayla, what are you doing?
Kayla: Nothing.
Mom: What kind of nothing?
Kayla, more angrily: NOTHING!
Mom sighs, then gets up to investigate, certain to find that “nothing” actually means something, and usually something that she’d rather Kayla not be doing at the moment.
Have a great day everyone!
Nancy
Tales from the Mom-Side 