Today - at Superstore
Jackie: Mom, are English accidents real?
Me: What did you say?
Jackie: Are English accidents real?
Me: I don't know what you mean.
Jackie: (losing her patients a little bit)Do English accidents exist in the real world:
Me: Sorry Honey, I still don't know what you mean.
Jackie: You know, when we were watching Barbie and the Christmas Carol and the girl says Tomahtoes - you said she was because of her English accident.
Me: Oh, you mean English Accents - yes, those are real.
(Incidently, Jackie now likes eating tomatoes because she can call them Tomahtoes, she also calls potatoes, potahtoes - she is very fancy, and it is not accidental at all.)
On Thursday after school
Alice:Mom, we have got to get one of those furnaces.
Me: a furnace?
Alice: A furnace for my lunch.
Me: What kind of furnace?
Alice: Gareth had a furnace in his lunch today. His mom put ichiban in it.
Me: Oh, a thermos, yes that would be a good idea.
In regards to Alice and her lunches - a thermos is what we need, since she no longer will eat sandwiches and even cheese buns come back uneaten. ( especially now that her friend Jake is at her table and he is so funny she spends all her time laughing and forgets to eat). Lately I have been packing her a Tupperware with cereal in it and a spoon. She gets milk at lunch that she wasn't drinking, so now it goes on the cereal. The nutrition is questionable, but at least she is eating something. Cereal for breakfast, lunch and bedtime snack. If they ever stop making Shreddies, Alice will starve.
2 comments:
NO shredding in america- don't move here. Also, cereal is a staple of the Kaiwanese diet, so she should be fine.
I love how kids get things mixed up! I just started laughing when I read this!!
Post a Comment