MADE FOR LOVE: tricks of SIX

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXV -

Randomly:
"Mommy, am I a grown-up?"

After visiting a local farm:
"Can animals be married?"

Randomly:
"Can you imagine having FOUR kids if that baby before me didn't die?"

While watching Dumbo:
"I wish we had a baby elephant as a pet, because they are sooo cute! They really are a lot of work, though..."

While driving through the local college campus:
Me: "Do you think you'll go here some day for college?"
Harper: "No, I don't think so, because honestly I already learned everything at my school, you know."

At dinner:
Harper: "I can't decide if I'm going to do swimming when I get older or gymnastics!"
Me: "You can do both!"
Harper: "No, Mom... I'm talking about which one I'd do in the Olympics!"

While watching the hurdlers' interview during the Olympics:
"Why are they sweating? They didn't run THAT far..."

While watching more Olympics:
Harper: "When I get a boyfriend, I'm gonna ask him to cut his armpit hairs off."
Me: "Oh you don't like armpit hair?"
Harper: "No! It's totally disgusting!"

After a shower one night:
Harper: "Mom, do they have to see your belly and vagina at the hospital when the baby comes out?"
Me: "Not sure." .....

One Saturday morning:
Me: "After this game of Uno, do you want to go downstairs with me and find the box of baby blankets so we can wash some up for the baby?"
Harper: "No, not really, because it will probably just spit up on them. Why can't you just glue the baby's mouth shut or something?"
Me: .....

While watching The Bachelorette:
Harper: "Mom, quit pausing the show!"
Me: "Well this isn't really a show for kids."
Harper: "Why isn't it a show for kids?"
Scarlett: "BECAUSE, Hawpie... Kids can't have boyfwiends!"

While watching 101 Dalmatians:
Harper: "Do dogs only have babies if they get married first?"
Me: "I'm not sure. I don't really think dogs get married..."
Harper: "Well they CAN, if there's one girl and one boy."
Me: "Oh..........yeah maybe so..."

After school:
"____ [boy she's friends with] is about as tall as Scarlett, but he SAYS he's 7... But he only goes up to about my chin, anyway..."

Inside Aldi, loudly [as I'm 36w pregnant]:
"OH, do we need to buy more alcohol? You know the one you always like and runned out of?"

Randomly:
Harper: "Are you going to keep the baby or give it away?"
Me: "Keep it!!! Why? Do you want to give it away?"
Harper: "No, well I was just wondering since you already have two childs who don't really listen a lot."

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

- The Torment of T-ball -

One of my very favorite pastimes was playing softball through the summers a kid and then through high school, too; so it goes without saying that I was so excited for Harper's first T-ball season this summer! ...Although, she wasn't QUITE as excited... She had a great time in the dugout with her teammates [mostly classmates!] and of course loved the sprint over to the snow cone stand as soon as the last inning concluded each week, but wasn't shy to say mid-way through the season that she was not interested in playing future seasons and thought she'd try soccer next instead. Haha!

But! From June-July, Tuesdays nights at the ball field were our jam, and I'll savor the memories of warm summer nights under the field lights until she decides to give it a whirl again some time. :)