Tuesday, December 22, 2009

On Goal Setting

Yesterday afternoon, when picking Hannah up from preschool:

Me: Hey baby, how was your day today?
Hannah: Great! I didn't bite anyone or push anyone, or anything!
Me: Wonderful!

Maybe I set my own standards too high.

Friday, December 18, 2009

On tattoos....

Hannah: Mamma, can I have a tattoo after my bath tonight?
Me: If you're good! What kind are you going to get? We have superman and spongebob.
Hannah: Hmmm, I think maybe spongebob...maybe Patrick!
Me: Ok, where are you going to get it?
Hannah: hmmm, maybe on my bum.
Me: No, I don't think so, you wouldn't be able to see it on your bum.
Hannah: hmmm, well maybe on my back then.
Me: *sigh* You won't be able to see it on your back either.
Hannah: I KNOW! I'LL GET TWO TATTOOS ON MY BUM!
Me: Ok, one tattoo only, and not on your bum. I shouldn't have to worry about bum tattoos for at least another 15-16 years.
Hannah: Huh? When I'm all grown up I can get a tattoo on my bum.
Me: Yeah, I suppose, if you really want to.
Hannah: I do!
Me: and what sort of tattoo do you think you'll be getting on your bum when you're all grown up?
Hannah: hmmm...I think maybe Spongebob...or BARBIE!
Me: uh-huh. You know grown up tattoos don't wash off. You'd be stuck with Barbie on your bum forever.
Hannah: Oh. That's ok, I think I'll just get a submarine maybe.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The budding reindeer expert

Me: Hannah, it's only one week until Christmas Eve!
Hannah: I KNOW THAT!
Me: Oh, well alright then.
Hannah: And we'll make cookies for Santa, and leave carrots for the reindeer.
Me: Yup! Then when you wake up on Christmas morning, you can come wake us up and we'll go downstairs and see if Santa came!
Hannah: Yup, we'll go outside and check for tracks.
Me: What?
Hannah: We'll go outside and see if there are sleigh tracks and deer tracks.
Me: Well, I meant that we'd go see if Santa left you anything under the tree...that how we'll know if he came.
Hannah: Yeah, I KNOW that...that and the deer tracks.
Me: I'm pretty sure that Santa and the reindeer land on the roof...so we won't be able to see any tracks honey.
Hannah: No...they land on the lawn and go across it and then the reindeer jump really hard and pull the sleigh up to the roof. So we'll see those tracks.
Me: I think they just fly around and land on the roof.
Hannah: No, that's silly. Deer can't fly, they can just jump hard.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Misheard lyrics of a four year old.

She's been singing in the car a lot lately...my favorites:

To the tune of "This is Halloween" from the Nightmare Before Christmas:

"This is celery, this is celery, CELERY, CELERY, CELERY!"

Me: Umm, sweetie, that's a great song there but they're actually saying, "this is Halloween".
Hannah: Halloween? Oh, cause it's a Halloween land.
Me: Yup!
Hannah: Well that's good, but in Celery land, they sing THIS IS CELERY! THIS IS CELERY!
Me: Sure, probably.


A few days later, while listening to "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" in the car:

Hannah: Oh ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see! Somebody waits for you! Wizard once for me!
Me: Kiss her.
Hannah: What!?
Me: He's saying, "Somebody waits for you, KISS HER once for me," not "wizard once for me"
Hannah: Oh, can you play it again?
Me: Sure.

A few seconds later...

Hannah: No, he's saying "wizard."
Me: That doesn't even make any sense.
Hannah: Like magic.
Me: fine.

Friday, December 11, 2009

The past tense of smelly

This morning, while getting ready for school/work, Hannah was playing with her plastic dinosaur set. They were engaged in a battle and as one or another dinosaur was slain, it was put back into the box (my idea, rather brilliant). As the box began to fill up, I noticed Hannah sniff it and exclaim "eww, pee-youuuuu". Curious, I asked, "does something smell?"

"Yeah, all these dead dinosaurs!"
"They smell? Why do they smell?"
"Cause they're dead!"

Thinking this to be somewhat morbid for a four year old, I ask where she heard that something dead would be smelly.

"At school."
"They told you that dead dinosaurs smell bad at school?"
"Yeah, they're extinct!"

This takes me 3 or 4 seconds.

"Hannah, something being extinct doesn't mean it smells bad...it means there are no more of them left, that they're all dead."

"Oh...I thought the dead dinosaurs were stinky."