On a bit of a hike to the cleanest bathroom at the park today:
Kelly: Mommy, Brandon wears a nightcap to bed. I want to wear a nightcap to bed. Can I?
Me: He also says he’s going to marry his Mother. I’m not convinced Brandon wears a nightcap to bed.
Kelly: He IS going to marry his Mother! He proposed and she accepted! WHO AM I GOING TO MARRY NOW?! I’m so sad. I guess I’ll just go back to my first plan and marry Neil. So. Can I wear a nightcap?
Me: Did Brandon announce he wears a nightcap while you were on the Field Trip to the Log Cabin?
Kelly: Yes.
Me: That’s what I thought. He doesn’t wear a hat to bed. (QUICK MOMMY…change the subject). What did you learn in school today?
Kelly: How to tell time and then I learned Chinese.
Me: Wow, not a bad day!
Kelly: Wo de Ping guo.
Me: What did you say?
Kelly: I said “my apple”.
Me: I’m going to have to take your word for it.
Kelly: When we get to the bathroom, can I go first?
Me: Kelly, you’re getting to be a big girl. I think it’s time for you to have your own stall.
Kelly: What if the toilet flushes itself?! Those scare me!
Me: You won’t flush down the toilet. It’s time.
Kelly: Are you going to poop?
Me: UM…why do you ask?
Kelly: Because if we aren’t together, and we both poop, we can hear the pooping, and by echolocation, we’ll know how to find each other.
Me: I’ve never thought of using the word echolocation in this type of situation before.
Kelly: It’s not just for bats.
Me: Apparently it’s for lost pooping humans as well.
Kelly: Walk faster Mommy. There are only 60 hours in a day.
7 responses to “A Walk With Kelly”
How do you keep from crackin’ up when Kelly is totally serious!?
Wait ?! You don’t carry post-it notes to put over the “eye” so the toilets won’t flush automatically!!? Oh…
And your lucky not to have a boy – they want to go into the boys bathroom without you… Two minutes of terror each and every time…
Oh, I howl. I stopped trying to stifle the laughs a long time ago, because it’s pointless. I leave out the phrases of me telling her she has the funniest and sometimes most enlightened ideas. And craziest.
Karin…post its! Brilliant. But I think I’ll let her tough this one out! I’m so weak, if I had boys I’d throw a pink bow in their hair and drag them into the ladies room forever. I wonder how you Moms of sons do it!!
We learn to just relax and let them do it, and then we enjoy some bathroom time of our own! LOL!
Thanks again…as always for making me laugh so hard!
Have a lovely day!
Pooping as a means of echolocation! She’s sat in deep thought at some point and totally thought this through!! Probably when she was learning about echolocation – she thought, “Hmmm, I bet humans could use this in the bathroom!” She IS queen of the bathroom!
I seriously carried and used post-it notes for my sensory sensitive son and those horrible toilets! It saved the day many times! I love that there are 60 hours in a day. Gives us all more time to ponder thoughts such as pooping and echolocation! She is a hoot! Thanks for making me laugh today!