Conversation on the way home:
Mummy (to Little Bear): Are you my girl?
Little Bear: NO!!!
M: Are you Daddy's girl?
LB: NO!!!
M: Oh, OK. Are you Cheetah's girl?
LB: NO!!!
M: Well whose girl are you?
LB: I Ma-Mar's girl ! Hmph!
Hours later:
Mummy: Come and get dried
LB: I don't want get dried!
M: Don't you want your Scoobie Doo jammies on?
LB: I don't want Scoobie Doo Jammies on!
M: Don't you want a bottle?
LB: I don't want bottle!
M: Well what do you want?
LB: MA-MAR !!!!!!
(Ma-Mar is Grandma in Little Bear language).
And this little gem from Cheetah tonight (who is in Grade 5)
Cheetah: Mum, how long is there between grade 7 & grade 8?
Mum: What do you mean?
C: I mean how long between grade 7 & grade 8?
M: You'll have to explain what you mean. Are you talking about the holidays?
C: Kind of, I mean between finishing grade 7 & starting grade 8. Do I get like a year off or something?
M: No.
I think there might have been some disappointment that he didn't get a year off, but I'm not sure what he intended to do with his gap year when both his parents work ???
(For non-Queenslanders, Grade 8 is the first year of highschool here).
You might also notice that Cheetah's explanations leave a bit to be desired. He thinks an explanation is to repeat the question word for word, slowing it down, emphasising the important words & raising his voice.
Mopping up the remains of my mind.
9 years ago
4 comments:
No wonder I love my grandchildren so much! They have all the right answers :)
Cheetah often sounds like a British comedy skit - you can imagine John Cleese trying to get a foreigner to understand him by speaking louder and slower in English to someone who doesn't understand a word. Come to think of it, I bet Cheetah will love Monty Python.
Lucky Ma-Mar to be loved so.
Interesting concept of a gap year to prepare for high school. :)
Cheetah loves Monty Python.
Ugh, we have similar conversations to those. Singing "its so nice to have a cuddle with a person that you love" and one of them turns to me and says "I love grandma, I want to cuddle her, not you"
And Dragon is forever telling me "I... WAN... PUSH... MAH... BLOVES... ON" "pardon, I still didn't understand" "BLOVES... BLOVES... I... WAN... PUSH... MAH... BLOVES... ON". translation: I want to put my clothes on. Well, how was I supposed to understand that when it was TOTALLY out of character for Mr Nudie Man???
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