Theo: ‘I fell down last night and hurt my knee on the footpath. I can still go on the trampoline though.’
Mabel: ‘I’ve got a knee! I keep it in my pants!’
Theo: ‘That’s good.’
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He calls Google ‘Gurgle’.
Theo: ‘What are you doing?’
Alice: ‘I’m just checking my emails.’
Theo: ‘That’s not how you make friends, Mama.’
Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.
Theo: ‘Mama…how do you make fire?’
He senses he is about to get a Talking To.
Theo: ‘I mean…how do you make…pretend fire?’
A book by it’s cover.
Mabel: ‘MAMA! READ THIS TO ME!’
(It’s the Power Bill.)
I’d rather have a Rooster, because atleast I could drive him to the country and leave him there.
It is 5:30am
Mabel: ‘Are you tired, Mama? Be happy! Are you tired? Stop it! Oh, it’s wobbly on you! I am your blanket! Look at me! I am licking you! Don’t say yes! Don’t say no! I’ve turned you into a frog!’
Luminous.
We are lying on my bed, talking about what we will do today, when she up and grabs me by the cheeks.
Mabel: ‘Mama, I love your face!’
And with that, she made me beautiful forever.
Que?
Mabel: ‘Was that a Spanish robot? …or a truck?’
No more Dickens for you, young man.
Theo: ‘I’m going to take you to my factory! I’m an angry, angry child! I am going to get you! For 2 hours!
Be in love with your life. Every detail of it. – Jack Kerouac.
Mabel: ‘Mama! I’ve got a big black fanny!’
Alice: ‘Do you, darling? That’s wonderful.’
Mabel: ‘I’ve got a big big huge green fanny!’
Alice: ‘Oh, it’s green now? That’s marvellous.’
Three Hundred & Sixty Five / Days at Home: Twenty-Two.
Mabel: ‘Mama! I am taking a photo of you!’
Alice: ‘Oh, but darling! I am in the shower!’
Theo: ‘I am going to take a photo of you too, Mama!’
Alice: ‘Oh, darlings, uh, yes – that’s very nice! But perhaps you could take photos of me when I am out of the shower? You know?’
Theo: ‘I am just getting my camera!’
Mabel: ‘I am taking more photos of you, Mama!’
Alice: ‘Yes, I see that, darling. Careful! You’re getting all we…’
Mabel: ‘MAAAAAAAMMMMMMAAAAAAAAA! MY DORA T-SHIRT IS WET!’
Alice: ‘Oh, sweetheart, well, uh, just give me a minute to get the shampoo out of my eyes, hmm?’
Theo returns.
Theo: ‘Mama I am taking a photo of your bum! AH HA HA’
Mabel: ‘I am taking a photo of your bum too!’
Alice: ‘I am so lucky’.
No photo today, dears. I’m sure you can’t imagine why.
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