Mabel: ‘Mama, are you my family?’
Alice: ‘Yes, darling.’
Mabel: ‘And trees? And flowers? Big ones? And little ones?
Alice: ‘Well…’
Mabel: ‘And your eyebrows? And your eyes? And hair?’
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Overheard #3
Theo: ‘Is this a fish box?’
Mabel: ‘No. It’s the bath.’
Overheard #2
Theo: ‘Don’t worry Mae! I’m wearing my Parrot-chute!’.
One day they’ll discover Jimi Hendrix and that will be that.
Theo: ‘Let’s sing The Incy-Wincy Spider climbed up the sandwich!’
Mabel: ‘No! Rain, rain, go away!’
Theo: ‘No! Op-a-Gangnam Star!
I am so lucky.
Mabel: ‘Mama! I’ve got something special for you!’
(It was chewed Carrot in an empty vitamin bottle.)
Secret Ingredient.
Theo: ‘It’s the Spice of Life! It makes the Macaroni sauce go!’
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” – Haruki Murakami
Theo: ‘…My bogies are doing damage.’
Alice: ‘Your bogies are doing damage? To what?’
Theo: ‘…The phone…’
Alice: ‘Oh don’t put your bogies on the phone, darling! Get a tissue!’
Theo: ‘…The phone isn’t working…and the bogies are making it worse’.
Alice: ‘Baby! Do not put your bogies on the phone! Get a tissue!
Theo: ‘…I was just getting them out.’
Alice: ‘TISSUE!’
Talking to Mabel on the Telephone #1
Mabel: ‘Brrring! Brrrring! Hello, Mama?’
I answer my Banana phone.
Alice: ‘Hello, Mama speaking. Hi, Mae! What are you doing?’
Mabel: ‘Shopping and crying! And I am making my toy dog into an aeroplane – he’s a robot! I gotta go! I love you so much! Bye! Beep, beep, beep!’
Shopping and crying? We’ve all been there, sister. (Even though we’ve been home all morning…)
Blast Off.
It is 6am.
Mabel: ‘Spaceship! Spaceship? You’re my Spaceship! I want sparkles on my foot nails! You need to close that drawer, Spaceship. Look! Otto’s a circle! His tail is a line! Spaceship? Spaceship? What are you doing? Do you like balls? WAKE UP SPACESHIP!’
Toot Suite.
Mabel: ‘I did a fart! A two part fart!’
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