All Slushies from 7-11 are coffee.
The T.V. is broken.
The computer is broken.
We're not allowed to wake up until we see the sun.
The monsters live outside, take you away and only give you water to drink - no ni-ni (milk)....
Carl caught me saying this to her and gave me the look of death...O.K., so the last one was a bit much but she tried to outdo me and I couldn't help but take it a step further- something I do regret and not because she has an unhealthy fear of monsters now...
It all started with her telling me she was "broken" and me, jokingly, responding with "Uh-Oh, we're gonna have to trade you in, get a new little girl!"
"A new little girl?"
"Yes, a new one, maybe Nicky will want to live here."
"And I go to Aunt Laura's and live?"
"No, you're broken, we'll have to send you to the curb for the garbage pick up."
"Garbage?"
"Yeah, we'll have to put you in a box and Daddy will take you to the curb."
"I have to live in a box?"
"Yup, you wanna live in a box outside?"
"Yea!!" she says, eyes gleaming with excitement.
"Err.." think fast, Mariann, think fast..."But then the monsters will come and get you."
"The monsters?!"
"Yeah, the monsters! And you'll have to live in their house and they won't give you anything yummy to eat!"
"No ni-ni? Only water?"
"Yup, only water!"
"Mommy, I want to live with the monsters..."
WHAT?!
Once in a while, Julia will continue to remind me that she's broken and needs to live with the monsters and she'll keep up the story about how they'll make her live in a box and how they're scary and somehow, at the end of it, she sings the last piece of it in a Broadway musical version with "And they don't give any Ni-Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" with outstretched arms and all but without the spirit fingers (which would've been the pièce de résistance-but who am I to critique?).
I'm not sure whose lying to who now but I'm pretty sure that Julia has got me beat.
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