An eminently practical child.
Business took me to Carlsbad last week, so we took the girls to see Carlsbad Cavern.
As we were driving up to the entrance, Yaya asked, "are we in a canyon?"
Mama: "Yes."
Yaya: "Is it the Grand Canyon?"
Mama: "No, that's a long way away."
Yaya: "Are we going to go see that next?"
Mama: "No, we can't see everying at once."
Yaya: "Mama, we'd need 16 or 20 or 100 eyes to see everything."
Keetah's third birthday party is in the works. Discussion of her party led to discussion of Yaya's and Yaya's presents.
So we started the good old pig latin.
Soon Yaya asks, "Cake? Camera? What're you talking about?"
So we switch to our rusty High School German.
T says "fur ihre geburtstag" and Yaya asks, "who's birthday are you talking about?"
Oy.
@DrewDad,
Those smarty-pants ones, they're a handful.
What's the difference between this:
and this?:
Answer: Three years.
A card Yaya wrote for a friend's birthday party:
Dear Roobee,
I hop yoo hv good brth ta prtee.
Yaya and Keetah are still working on figuring out the whole joke thing.
Keetah has the format right, but not the content.
Example:
Q: What do you call an apple with legs?
A: A bun.
@DrewDad,
It's very Zen. Your daughter is a Junior Sage in Training.
Yaya got to watch Toy Story over the weekend, and she's been quoting it and laughing hysterically.
So I ask her if she can say "We are the knights who say 'Nee'!"
She replies, "'We are the knights who say 'Nee'!'" Pause. "I don't get it."
After a family event, T asked, "is it any wonder I'm a psychologist?"
Yaya piped up, "No, Mama, not much wonder."
She then added, "There is hope, though!"
We were playing a party game called Gift Trap over the holiday, and Yaya is finally old enough to play.
In the game, you deal cards with potential gifts on them, and the players have to choose to whom to give the gifts, and which gifts they'd like to receive.
Yaya, responding to why she didn't want to go swimming with sharks (in a cage), "too much sharkiness!"
Yaya also rejected playing in the mud ("Too dirty!") and waterskiing ("Too dangerous for little kids.")
After attending a live manger scene, we were discussing Jesus and how he taught people to treat each other nicely.
Keetah commented, "people didn't listen, Mama!"
Yaya tonight asks "how were the first people born? I mean, if there weren't any people, how were they born?"
Er... Ah... Daddy tries for 20 minutes to explain evolution in terms that a five-year-old can understand....
She may be confused for the rest of her life.
That was a great question. I'd love to have heard your explanation.
