Stories of cuteness
Feb. 15th, 2008 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is very short - Evangeline heard yesterday that it was Valentine's Day, and said, like this was the silliest thing she'd heard all day, "Nooooo! Not Va-yen-dine!"
I told her yes, it was, and she informed me, gleefully "No! Is our day! Si-yee goose!"
Later one, I was told I was a silly goose because I called her, playfully, "Evangeleeny, Evangelooooony". "No. I not Han-da-yeeeny! You si-yee goose!" (At least we can get her to say her own name now. Occasionally. She used to insist that she was "da baby" and then, when she heard the phrase, "dus a baby". Now she says she's "just a yidda girl", but we can make her say her name.)
Today, I sang the old song "It ain't gonna rain no more no more, it ain't gonna rain no more! How in the heck can I wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?????" which was one of my favorite songs when I was four. And Angelique listened to the song, then told me, quite seriously, "With a washcloth!"
I couldn't help it. I burst out in laughter, prompting "It's not funny!" Well, it *was* funny, and I just laughed harder, I couldn't keep it in. So I got jumped on, and she kept saying "It's not funny!", and since she didn't storm off and sulk, I'm certain it was to make me laugh more. (It was a lot funnier in the doing than the retelling. Just one of those things.)
There's another one, that's not so cute, and that requires spoiler warnings, so I won't cut the whole thing. Just the spoilers.
We were at the ETC, and looking at a book we eventually bought, Who Sank the Boat.
In the story, we're told a cow, a horse, a pig, a sheep, and a mouse went on the water one day. And every page, we're asked "Do you know who sank the boat?" or, "Was it so-and-so?" with an explanation of how so-and-so is nearly sinking the boat (but not quite). Of course, the one who sank the boat was the mouse. When I read the book to Angelique, at the first question, I stopped and asked her if she knew. And she said it right out - the mouse! Of course, she was right, proving that she has a clear grasp of this narrative convention. I was impressed :)
I told her yes, it was, and she informed me, gleefully "No! Is our day! Si-yee goose!"
Later one, I was told I was a silly goose because I called her, playfully, "Evangeleeny, Evangelooooony". "No. I not Han-da-yeeeny! You si-yee goose!" (At least we can get her to say her own name now. Occasionally. She used to insist that she was "da baby" and then, when she heard the phrase, "dus a baby". Now she says she's "just a yidda girl", but we can make her say her name.)
Today, I sang the old song "It ain't gonna rain no more no more, it ain't gonna rain no more! How in the heck can I wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?????" which was one of my favorite songs when I was four. And Angelique listened to the song, then told me, quite seriously, "With a washcloth!"
I couldn't help it. I burst out in laughter, prompting "It's not funny!" Well, it *was* funny, and I just laughed harder, I couldn't keep it in. So I got jumped on, and she kept saying "It's not funny!", and since she didn't storm off and sulk, I'm certain it was to make me laugh more. (It was a lot funnier in the doing than the retelling. Just one of those things.)
There's another one, that's not so cute, and that requires spoiler warnings, so I won't cut the whole thing. Just the spoilers.
We were at the ETC, and looking at a book we eventually bought, Who Sank the Boat.
In the story, we're told a cow, a horse, a pig, a sheep, and a mouse went on the water one day. And every page, we're asked "Do you know who sank the boat?" or, "Was it so-and-so?" with an explanation of how so-and-so is nearly sinking the boat (but not quite). Of course, the one who sank the boat was the mouse. When I read the book to Angelique, at the first question, I stopped and asked her if she knew. And she said it right out - the mouse! Of course, she was right, proving that she has a clear grasp of this narrative convention. I was impressed :)
