My parents are coming into town today, and tomorrow I'm going with them to the Shakespearean Festival. When we come back, we're going with the rest of the family--siblings, in-laws, and nieces and nephews--to Aspen Grove for a week. Hanging out with my nieces and nephews is extremely amusing. It's like hanging out with little animals that talk. Beavers or marmots, maybe.
Sunday I was having dinner with my sister and her family. We were eating a side dish with broccoli in it, and my sister was trying to convince her two girls, ages 3 and 4, to eat some of it.
Sister: Just try a bite. You don't know you don't like it until you try it.
4-yr-old: No, please, Mommy. I'll eat it when I'm an older girl. I don't like it. I know it.
Sister: Maybe little girls who don't eat broccoli won't get to eat dessert either. (She sounded a lot like a mother out of a Little Golden book when she said that. You naughty kittens, you lost your mittens, now you shall have no pie . . . )
4-yr-old: Weeping and wailing
Brother-in-law: Wait! Listen. I hear something. It's a tiny voice. It's saying something. It's saying, "Eat me." It's the broccoli!
3-yr-old: Oh, Daddy! That's so silly. That's not the broccoli. That's the Holy Ghost!
So, what do you say to that? No children ate broccoli. Everybody ate chocolate mousse.
3 comments:
That's so cute. You will have a blast at Aspen Grove. My family has had a couple reunions there and they have a lot of great activities and fun things for all ages!!
Annie
Miss 4-yr-old is very excited to go. We told here that there would be fishing, so she's been practicing (in the living room) for a few weeks now, so we'll have "good meat to eat" while we're in the wilderness. Not that she personally plans to eat fish. She told me fish is just for adults. She'll have ice cream.
How funny. She sounds like a very precocious 4-year-old. Kids make me laugh so hard with the things they say and do. I am happy that you live so close to them and can spend a lot of time with them. I miss all of my nephews and my niece. We just got to see Bryan and Michelle's kids in Vermont and it makes me sad how fast they grow up! I can't believe that my little bug is already 8 weeks old!
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