All kids come out with corkers, but Eleanor does it regularly, with the hands on hip attitude of somebody stating the absolutely blinding obvious - or so she thinks.
Today coming home on the motorway she told me that everytime I went past a lorry I scored lifepoints. She's been avidly watching Joshua and Madeleine's Yu-Gi-Oh episodes and often sits watching Phillip and Joshua play their cards so I can only assume it stems from that.
I got 58 lifepoints for going past a lorry, then I got another 51 points for going past another lorry. I got fewer points second time over because the first lorry was bigger.
Eleanor: Well done Mummy, you've gone past the lorry and you've scored 51 points.
Karen: Great! But why didn't I get 58 points like before?
Eleanor: Because the first one was bigger.
Karen: It was a bit of a whopper lorry wasn't it? (Whopper is a favourite word of hers).
Eleanor: (Very pragmatically and rolling her eyes). No Mummy, it was just 'bigger'.
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Samuel, bless him, manages to goof words because he's only two. At the moment when I'm putting on my make-up he likes to put on his 'dipstick' too.
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When Maddie went to the hotel recently for a manicure and lunch for her birthday Joshua told her to enjoy her 'pampicure'. I quite like that one and really do think it should be entered in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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