Spontanious

It has been so long since I have shared any fun ramblings with everyone lately. Life has been so busy I have not had the time to write down everyone's silly comments to come back later and post. Today I had a few moments and wanted to share this rambeling while it was fresh in my memory.

We were talking about babysitting for people today... Like how they will call you last minute and say that they forgot that they had something going on and need a babysitter. Two of the ladies in this conversation are grandmother's and were complaining how thier daughters will do this all the time. Ziggy shared this comment with us and I could not help but share with everyone else because I loved it so much.

I tell my daughter when she calls last minute to ask me to babysit "I am too old to be spontanious!"

Lunar Eclipse

Sadie says to me:
"I would spank you, but your butt looks big in those pants."

Ziggy hears this and response to the comment is...

"Oh dear God, remind me not to bend down in front of you. It will get dark in here real fast it will be like an unscheduled Lunar Eclipse."

I swear the remarks that she comes up with so fast are great. I keep telling her that we are going to take her to an amateur comedy night as soon as we find one around our area.

I'll Show You

Every November Putnum Publishing has a big warehouse sale in our area (Broome County, NY). It is held in a large warehouse with aisles made from palets with cases of books on them. They are done by catagory starting with Holiday books and kids books. I went one evening after work and I took my 6yr old with me. I had given her $5 and a bag so that she could pick out her own books. (You know how kids are they don't like when we tell them not today or next time, when you are shopping and they want something.)

So... we get there and she finds the books that she wants, 5 books because she choose books that were $1 each. We walk a little furhter and she decides that she is done and wants to leave. Even tries to say that she is not felling well. I explain to her nicely that we will leave when I am done looking through all the aisles. She continues to whine at me as we are looking. She then plops herself down on the floor and says she is going to sit here and read. I then explain that there are too many people there and she is not allowed to sit on her butt as a fire hazard. Relunctantly she comes with me and continues to whine. At this point I have had enough. I pull her aside and hold her arms and tell her very firmly, face to face...

Mommy- "If you do not stop this right now I will spank you." (I would not have really spanked her but was trying to make her understand I was not leaving.)

G.G.- "Mommy, there is a policeman right over there."

So here I thought that I was going to show her that I was not playing games and I was serious, that it was time to listen and she SHOWED ME. It took everything that I had to not laugh because she was right and had a point. My response was to continue walking because she was going to follow me anyway. Oh and of course there was a policeman right over there.

Is it sad that we as parents can not even use this line anymore to try and make our kids listen because they know that we can get in trouble for actually following through with the "threat"?

Big words for a big girl

Since school has started this year I have noticed some big words coming out of G.G.'s mouth and she is using them in the correct context. Here are a few examples.

Mommy "Where is your brother?"
G.G. "I don't know, personally."

The day that school started here we were hit with a HUGE flood (9/7/11) and we had just had one in 2006. Alot of the same areas where hit again as well as a lot of other areas. Alot of these areas that were hit, people have lost everything. This includes a lot of stores in our area. One of them was Petco. The area that they are in was being evacuated and apparently none of the employees attempted to get there and get the animals out. They tried to blame it on the city that they are located in that they did not know the store was going to flood that bad and that the area was being evacuated. There was a big article in the local paper stating that about 100 animals did die but about the same amount were still alive. They do not sell dogs or cats but they do host cats from our local Humane Society. They also do dog grooming and I had heard that there were some peoples dogs still there when all this happened. (You can read the articles www.pressconnects.com and search Petco.)

So back to G.G.'s story. We were in the car and G.G. and her friend were talking. I could finally hear the conversation and they were talking about Petco.

G.G. "... and I know definitely the workers could have gone there and saved all the animals!"

My son and I are in the front seats and trying so hard not to laugh, because it was so cute and it was said with such compassion.

She then starts in with this conversation...

G.G. "Like ten years ago (and in my head I am thinking, you were not alive 10 years ago where is that statement going.) there were 3 airplanes and the crashed into 3 buildings and a lot of people died."

While this little lines by a 6 year old are not really funny that are absolutely amazing. It shocks me how much she is paying attention and how much she is absorbing and remembering to have opinions about.

Where do these things come from?

Here is another G.G. story...

She got a birthday card in the mail the other day from my best friend, M. In the card she sent her some cash. So, we were at the store that night and she picked out a toy that she wanted. It was a little doll. We are driving along and she says:

G.G. "Oh, man she doesn't have any earrin-, oh wait she does."
Mommy "Are they painted on?"
G.G. "No, they are like my Barbie's earrings."
Mommy "Ok, don't take them out ok. Can I see her?"
G.G. "Ok, here she is."
So, she passes her to me as I am driving. I take the doll and look at her and realize that this doll does not have earrings.
G.G. "Haha! I tricked you and you fell for it!!"

Really where does a first grader get these things from

Fantasy World?

I know a few gum chewers and we enjoy trying out new flavors. Ziggy is one to always show up with some new flavors. So, today while telling us about a new apple flavor gum she found this is what she had to say about it.


"Gum now doesn't keep it's flavor. I want some Willy Wonka gum, that you can put on your night stand and chew for weeks and it does not loose it's flavor. But I live in a fantasy world. I also want likable wallpaper."

Let's hear it for the women who never grow up, ha ha guys we can be young at heart too. Now go out and watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original or the new one!

Only if it were that easy...

For the past week, due to the massive flooding in our area, we have been staying with a family member. My husband who is a smoker has been taking advantage of the fact that she allows smoking in her home, which I do not. My daughter is always on his case to quite smoking and even more so now with his smoking more noticeable.
Cleaning up the kitchen after dinner last night, she comes out to me with her pointer and her thumb pinched together.

Mommy- "What do you have in your fingers?"
G.G.- "Daddy's cigarette?"
Mommy- I am looking at her fingers starting to freak out and start to ask her why do you have daddy's cigarette, when I realize there is nothing in her fingers. So then I say...
"There is nothing in your fingers."
G.G.- "No there is. Daddy has this button in his brain, I reached in and pulled out the cigarette. This way he won't want to have them again." She then walks to the garbage can and "throws it away."

I was just amazed that my 6 year old came up with this thought. If only every bad habit and thought were that easy to remove from your brain