The Beginning of the Trifecta (July 26, 2007)
Avery Going To Dinner With Her Parents After an “Educational” Week With Aunt Orly:
Aunt Jenny: Avery, do you want milk?
Avery: Um…no.
Aunt Jenny: What? You love milk with your dinner.
Avery: Aunt Orly told me about the dangerous chemicals in milk. I think they’re called hormones.
Aunt Jenny (after I’m sure must have included at least one “thanks a lot Lori” eye roll): I’m sure this milk is fine.
Avery: Just to be safe, I’m going to get something else. I’ll have chocolate milk instead.
Sara: I need poster board Mommy. Do you have any I can use?
Avery: I need some too.
Kelly: Me too.
Mommy: OK, let me see what I have. We may have to cut it up to have enough for everyone.
Sara: Can we use the markers?
Mommy: Sure.
( I returned downstairs to leave them to their play.)
Sara: TWO DOLLARS!! TWO DOLLARS!! I need two dollars!
Avery: Kelly, I hope she can find some money so we can buy food.
Kelly: Where are we sleeping tonight?
Mommy: OH MY LORD, ARE YOU GUYS PLAYING HOMELESS?!!
Sara: Yep.
(Running upstairs to find they had made beggar signs.)
Mommy: Well, OK. I wish you luck.
(Seriously. What was I supposed to do? Tell them not to connect to the issue of homelessness? Suggest it’s politically incorrect, thereby separating “us” from “them”? It was a lose-lose, so I told them to continue as they were.)
Staffing their lemonade stand at the garage sale. They are on an American Girl doll saving mission.
Handing out towels after swim time:
Sara: What are you reading Mommy? Does that title say “Fifty”?
Kelly: It can’t. It says 13.
Mommy: No, Sara’s right, it says fifty.
Kelly: But aren’t you reading “My Thirteenth Winter“?
Mommy: I finished that book last week. How do you remember that?
Kelly: You TOLD me. (She’s going to be fun as a tween.)
Sara: Don’t you have another book that says “Fifty” on your nightstand?
Mommy: Um…yes. They’re nothing important guys. They are just quick, little summer books for Mommies.
Kelly: Wow, you must really like math.
Sara: I thought Daddy was the one who liked math.
Mommy: Daddy loves…um, math. But Mommy loves math too.
Sara: So are your fifty books really good math books?
Mommy: Uh…uh…YES. I’m only in the first chapter, but I’m thinking these might be fun math books. OKAY, does everyone have a towel?! Who wants a cake pop? (Thereby changing the subject FOREVER.)
6 responses to “Tales From The Trifecta, Volume 2”
Hahahahaha! Yeah, I’ll bet Daddy is REALLY loving how Mommy keeps reading all of those Fifty math books!
So how do you like the “Fifty” books? I read them all relatively quickly and loved them all.
Roxanne, I’m only on Chapter 6 of the first one, so I’m trying to reserve judgement. I’m sure it’s bound to get saucy, but thus far I find their union completely implausible.
I liked book 2 and 3 much better than the first, but my most favorite is book is book 3.
Thanks for the pure entertainment! Never a dull moment at Aunt Orly’s house. I am amazed at your ability to remember all their funny comments. Summer has a way of zapping my short term memory.
Rachel, I use a trick. Whenever they say something funny, I repeat it over and over and over in my head, knowing I want to type it later. Then I write it down as soon as I can.