Aubrey. My darling second born child. She is quite gifted in the area of linguistics. She comes up with some of the most interesting comments sometimes. Tonight, she displayed this talent once again.
I was paying bills at my cozy desk while her father was to be entertaining her and the boy. She managed to sneak away from his hawk-eye to come visit me. I happened to be on the phone with a company who was trying to wriggle more money out of our checkbook so I kept her quiet by letting her scribble on some envelopes. All was going well until she spotted the stamps. Or stickers as she says. I tried to feverishly keep her from wasting $.41 cents a second and it started to get ugly. Phone call ended much to the delight of our checkbook, and I tried to convince her that it was time to go downstairs. She wanted no parts of this plan. She begins shrieking, crying, sobbing.
I calmly ask what she wants to do. She says, "I need to read mommy!!!!!" Apparently, scribbling means reading to her. I tell her that reading doesn't require a pencil but she continues her pleas. In a last ditch effort to persuade me, she yells, "I need to read mommy! I have a gift!"
WHAT? Where on earth did that come from? I just about fell over from laughter at this point. Hawk Eye asks me what she just said because he didn't think he heard it correctly. He finds it quite amusing also.
So now I have to wonder, if she is coming up with lines like this at age 2, what will the teen years have in store for me?
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