Say What: Summer 2016

Wanna know the funny things my kids have been saying?

Atticus: Wanna know why I don’t want to be a grown up?
Me: Why?
Atticus: Cause I’ll have to do hard stuff and that makes me get sweaty.

Cyan: Do you wanna know what I learned in school?

Me: Yes.

Cyan: When you fart, instead of saying excuse me, you say my bad. That’s the fancy way of saying excuse me. Say my bad.

Me: Who told you that?

Cyan: The teacher’s neighbor. She’s very fancy.

Cyan: Daddy, will you play the song I like? *starts singing*

Atticus: Will you play Uptown Funk You Up? It makes me happy. I get a happy feeling in my tummy like rainbows. *rubs tummy*

Atticus: I don’t want to do chores. Chores are boring.

Cyan: Grandpa, did you use to be white like Grandma when you were little, before you had a job?

Grandpa: *Laughs* No, I was never white.

Cyan: You were always black?

Grandpa: I’m not black.

Cyan: Have you seen yourself? Look at your arm, you’re black.

Cyan: Teacher said futbol is how you say soccer in New Mexico.

Grandma: I think that’s how you say it in Mexico and other parts of the world.

Cyan: You’re not from Albuquerque.

Grandma: I’ve lived here for two years.

Cyan: But you didn’t go to school here so you don’t know.

Papa: Cyan, your breakfast is ready.
Cyan: (No response).
Papa: Cyan, time to eat. Are you coming?
Cyan: I’m coming. (She presents herself in the breakfast area.) I was busy playing with my dolls. I don’t think you know how hard it is to be a kid.
Papa: (LOL on the inside)

Atticus: I don’t want to do homework.

Grandma: Why not?

Atticus: Because it’s long and boring.

Grandma: When you get bigger and go to school you will have homework.

Atticus: I don’t want to grow up and do homework. I want to be free.

Cyan: You have to grow up if you want to go to Disneyland.

Atticus: Oh, ok.

Atticus: UGH! You make me so mad!

Mand's Mind

From the mixed up files of Mrs. Amanda R. Armenta

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