Little One: "Mommy? I'm worried."
C: "Why?"
LO: "Well, when I grow up, I want to be FOUR things, a scientist, a baby-catcher*, a person what discovers and digs up dinosaur bones, and a gymnastics teacher. But! How can I do all the four things, if I have to be there at the same time?"
Miss: "Well. When I go up, I wahnt to wah-tuh plants. And I want take cay-uh foh Little Mistah."
LO: "Ok but, you know Miss, when you are a growed up, Little Mister will probably be a growed up. Or even a teenager."
Miss: "Ooooohhh. Oh, no. OH. NO! If He's a teenage-ah, then I can't sing sweetly to Him!"
C: "Sure you can, Miss. You can sing whenever you want to a'course."
Miss: "Yeah no. I don't want to. A-stead I will go up to be a bea-ah. On'y, I don't want to have claws. I on'y want to have some fingahs."
C: "You want to grow up to be a bear. With fingers."
Miss: "Yeah! Hmm. Or! Or if I can't go up to be that, I think, I want go up to be Daddy."
LO: "Ooh, Miss. That's a good one."
C: "Why?"
LO: "Well, when I grow up, I want to be FOUR things, a scientist, a baby-catcher*, a person what discovers and digs up dinosaur bones, and a gymnastics teacher. But! How can I do all the four things, if I have to be there at the same time?"
Miss: "Well. When I go up, I wahnt to wah-tuh plants. And I want take cay-uh foh Little Mistah."
LO: "Ok but, you know Miss, when you are a growed up, Little Mister will probably be a growed up. Or even a teenager."
Miss: "Ooooohhh. Oh, no. OH. NO! If He's a teenage-ah, then I can't sing sweetly to Him!"
C: "Sure you can, Miss. You can sing whenever you want to a'course."
Miss: "Yeah no. I don't want to. A-stead I will go up to be a bea-ah. On'y, I don't want to have claws. I on'y want to have some fingahs."
C: "You want to grow up to be a bear. With fingers."
Miss: "Yeah! Hmm. Or! Or if I can't go up to be that, I think, I want go up to be Daddy."
LO: "Ooh, Miss. That's a good one."
Pleeeease oh please oh pleeeeeeeease grow up to be a geologist too!!
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