How I know I have a Special Child...

This evening, my child could be seen dancing in the main aisle in Walmart.  Her dance partner was a foot, a bloody-looking ripped off leg-kind-of-foot.  She creeped one teenage girl out and impressed many other audience members.

 

The star herself though was quite disappointed there are no longer any bloody arms in stock.

Laundry Making Me See Red

Dear Pretentiously Astute Advice Columnist,

 

 

I woke up very exhausted this morning with little energy, but with the knowledge that I needed to throw a load of laundry into the washer.  First I had to empty the dryer so I could put the clothing from the washer into it so I could then put a new load into the washer. Imagine my surprise to discover red on an article of clothing and a melted red crayon in the dryer's drum.  Then picture my horror that every single article of my daughter's clothing had red splotches everywhere.  Beautiful summer clothing, brand new fall clothing, everything is ruined.  What do I do?  Is there a cure, doctor?  Or is it a terminal condition?

 

 

Any advice you have will be immediately considered as opposed to my usual approach in turning my ears.

 

 

Sincerely Yours,

 

Exasperated Mom seeing Red in the Midwest

Knock Knock

This morning, Bailey was trying her hand at a variety of Knock Knock jokes, and she approached us with a new one:

 

Bailey:  Knock, Knock

Us:  Who's there?

Bailey: Orange

Us: Orange who?

Bailey:  Orange you Spanish?

 

We have no idea where she got this from either.

That's My Girl

Bailey was playing in the bath water with a bath-appropriate doll and asked, "Is she a mermaid or is she going to die underwater? (did she really say that?)? in this quirky questioning voice, that she does when she's testing you.  Thoughts that I was only hearing things were soon corrected when I asked Bailey which and she responded, "she's just going to die underwater" with a wicked smile across her face.

 

Sometimes I wonder about this child.  But I think people wonder about her mother a lot too.