Conversations with a Three-Year-Old
Because this is probably one of the last times I'll get to use this tag...[sniff].
Nora: "Mommy, Mommy, say it again! Say what you said yestihday!
"Say, 'how would you like it if somebody called you poopyhead?'"
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"So, if you put a piggybank in the washing machine, that's how you could get the money out."
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Theological questions and insights:
"Mommy, can God talk?"
[different occasion, appropros of nothing] "Mommy, is God angry?"
"God taught me how to skip!"
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[as I am carrying a basket of laundry downstairs to the laundry room, with someone following hard upon my heels]
me: "So, whatcha doin'? Following me around like a puppy?"
Nora: [completely serious] "No, I'm just following you around like a kid."
Nora: "Mommy, Mommy, say it again! Say what you said yestihday!
"Say, 'how would you like it if somebody called you poopyhead?'"
* * *
"So, if you put a piggybank in the washing machine, that's how you could get the money out."
* * *
Theological questions and insights:
"Mommy, can God talk?"
[different occasion, appropros of nothing] "Mommy, is God angry?"
"God taught me how to skip!"
* * *
[as I am carrying a basket of laundry downstairs to the laundry room, with someone following hard upon my heels]
me: "So, whatcha doin'? Following me around like a puppy?"
Nora: [completely serious] "No, I'm just following you around like a kid."