02.23.09

Our typical conversation at night

Posted in Livy at 9:53 pm by tina

Livy: Mommy, J cried cried cried in school
me: Yea? Why did she cry?
Livy: BECAUSE… She poopoo-ed in her UNDERWEAR.
me: yea? Well, she just needs a little more practice.
Livy: She is a baby. Only baby poopoo and peepee in their underwear. I am a big girl. I don’t do that.
me: Where do you poopoo?
Livy: [gave me this look as if it was such a stupid question] TOILET. I am a BIG GIRL!
me: Big girls don’t whine. You whined a lot today.
Livy: Then mommy doesn’t paipai me. Only daddy paipai. But I don’t want daddy paipai. I want mommy paipai.
me: Well, daddy loves to paipai whining girls (The little girl can not stand to have daddy go through nighttime routine w her because “daddy doesn’t sing right and he doesn’t tell good stories” according to Livy)
Livy: But you paipai Jeijei when she whined (referred to last night when Maddy was grumpy)
mommy: good night Livy.
Livy; I love you and don’t cry and no goofing around and no talking and I get up when it is wake time. You go now.

The power of pizza and the wits of a 5.5 yr old

Posted in Maddy at 9:34 pm by tina

A few Mondays back:
me: Maddy, how come you didn’t eat your lunch I packed you?
Maddy: I bought lunch from school.
me: Why?
Maddy: I really wanted the pizza.
me: That is not ok. If I pack you lunch, you need to eat the packed lunch. It’s not ok to waste food or waste money like that.
Maddy: ok.

Ever since that talk, EVERY SINGLE MONDAY while I’m in her class helping:
Maddy: hi mommy. I am really really hungry today and I ate my lunch during snack time.
me: Is that right? And you are still hungry for lunch?
Maddy: Yea.

It is utterly hilarious watching her today. As other kids at the snack table take out their little bags of fruit/crackers, the girl broke out her bento box filled with pasta, ribs, and garlic bread.
I highly doubt that she was ‘hungry’ during lunch time, but I suppose I can’t fault her for breaking any rules I set. Things she does to get that small piece of darn cheese pizza!