Sunday, March 26, 2017

Tessisms

Tess has been super cute lately as only a Kindergartner can. She's really expanding her vocabulary and is constantly asking what different words mean. (Defining some words is actually harder than you'd think. Nouns and verbs are easy - things like emotions or concepts? Not so much.)

Two Tessisms have stood out to me this week. The first was when she was getting after me for not reading her a bedtime story the night before.

Tess: You said you would read me a bedtime story, but you did not!

Me: I would have, but you said you just wanted to go to sleep. Remember? You were sick and very sleepy.

Tess: But I wanted a story!

Me: But you fell asleep!

Tess: I wasn't sleeping! I... was just blinking for a long time!

Blinking for a long time is just about my favorite description of sleep ever.

The second came this morning. I have a pretty nasty cold, and that coupled with a full day of chatting with one of my favorite people (looking at you, Gig!) has pretty much obliterated my voice. I sound like a teenage boy going through puberty. Who smokes 5 packs a day. It's lovely.

When Tess heard me this morning she exclaimed "Oh Mommy! You've lost your sound!"

I couldn't disagree.

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