This Morning:
Mommy: Kelly! We’ve got to get out the door! What are you doing?
Kelly: I forgot something upstairs. I MUST get it. I MUST!
Mommy: What on earth MUST you take to school?
Kelly: I’ve been struggling to finish Tile Card #19 in Math Class. I’ve been trying for TWO WHOLE DAYS! I woke up in the middle of the night, and I had some ideas as to how to solve it! I wrote my ideas down in my diary, and I MUST take it into school today and try again.
Mommy: Are you serious?
Kelly (running down the stairs with her pink diary under her arm): Here it is. Of course I’m serious. It’s Tile Card #19 Mommy. TWO DAYS! Let’s go.
Here is an excerpt from an email I received from Kelly’s Math Teacher this morning:
“Card 19 was finished before 8:10 this morning! 🙂 Kelly was super motivated to get it finished.”
Lesson #1: Never doubt Kelly in conversation. While she is regularly implausible, she is rarely lying.
This evening after watching excerpts from Les Miserables (our newest topic of conversation/obsession, aka “Let’s start a conversation with Mommy about something she loves, and she won’t make us go to bed):
Kelly (after watching “Master Of The House” for the first time): He’s a bad guy, but I can’t UNDERSTAND IT! I KNOW his voice. He’s been in something else. I KNOW his voice.
Mommy: Sacha Baron Cohen? In a kid’s movie? I guess it’s possible. Let’s IMDB it…..Oh Good Lord. I can’t believe it. He’s King Julian from Madagascar. He’s the crazy lemur.
Kelly: SEE?! I knew it. Now look up the good guy. That Jean Val man. He’s somebody too.
Mommy: You’re unbelievable. He’s Bunny from Rise of the Guardians.
Kelly: Uh-huh. Different accent, same guy. It was really creeping me out for a minute. Javert is nobody. He’s just scary.
Sara: He doesn’t really die Kelly! It’s called SPECIAL EFFECTS!
Mommy: Gladiator doesn’t do kid movies. Kelly has this right. He’s alive and well and living in Australia. He’s not a bad guy in real life.
Kelly: Yeah, but he’s not Bunny or King Julian either.
Mommy: Hollywood is a very complicated place, what can I say?
Lesson #2: You can’t fool Kelly. Drunk Inn Keeper, Drunk Lemur, Greatest Lead Role In A Musical, Intimidating Bunny. She can 7 degrees the heck out of anyone ever featured in an Animated Film, apparently. Let’s never tell her Mel Gibson is John Smith in Pocahontas, OK? It may destroy her idea of good and evil.