Left on his own this afternoon, my tired husband decided to employ a little horizontal parenting.
[A parenting technique nearly perfected here in The House of Joy.]
He reclined on The Mayor's bed and periodically injected, "Is that right?", "Oh!" or "Mmmm hmmmm," at just the right moments in the ongoing dialogue of the short and loud people populating the room (also known as the children.)
The Rooster invaded the bed with a stack of her brother's dinosaur encyclopedias and proceeded to "read" them to him.
Each of her readings went something like this:
[A parenting technique nearly perfected here in The House of Joy.]
He reclined on The Mayor's bed and periodically injected, "Is that right?", "Oh!" or "Mmmm hmmmm," at just the right moments in the ongoing dialogue of the short and loud people populating the room (also known as the children.)
The Rooster invaded the bed with a stack of her brother's dinosaur encyclopedias and proceeded to "read" them to him.
Each of her readings went something like this:
"It was Christmas Eve!
There was a boy going home!
The dinosaur wanted to eat him!
The boy... THE END."
The Rooster slammed the book shut and then started the next surprisingly similar Christmas Eve /dinosaur / boy-going-home saga.
After finishing the first stack of books, she scrambled down for a fresh group.
After finishing the first stack of books, she scrambled down for a fresh group.
"These dinosaur books are in French," she told her father as she climbed back up.
The Rooster read several of these in a completely made up language.
After babbling randomly at length, she sighed and turned to her Dad.
After babbling randomly at length, she sighed and turned to her Dad.
"I just don't know where this story is going," she said in an exasperated tone.
Then, raising her eyebrows knowingly, she added, "It's French."
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(The Rooster decided long hair was too tangly and asked for a short haircut -et voilà!)
35 comments:
Adorable. Great picture too.
Well, the French aren't known for their dinosaur-holiday literature....
And I love the short haircut!
I think that is a French haircut too!
Spittin' image of YOU.
When my sisters and I were little, we used to walk behind my mother in the grocery store, babbling in a highly inflected made-up language- because we wanted people to think we were FRENCH CANADIAN!- the most exotic thing we could think of in our little Northern town!
Merci!
Great French Haircut!
i don't understand the french, either. adorable haircut, though!
oh my goodness what a cutie pie. love that haircut
Great haircut on your little frog.
A very French haircut indeed!! It looks perfect on her!
She's a darling.
I did that when I was a kid, around 4 I decided that long hair was for babies, so the cut my hair short.
around 6 or 7 I decided that I wanted curly hair, so my mom took me to a salon where I shocked everyone there by sitting calmly and quietly for the whold 2 hour procedure.
When my kids were around that age, sometimes we played putting mom to sleep. I lay on the couch and they covered me with a blanket and sang to me. The only problem was that I was allowed about 2 minutes with my eyes closed, and then they'd yell "Good Morning!"
That haircut looks SO adorable!! She looks so chic, so fashionable, so... French!
pfffffttt!!! hahahahaaa!!
oh, ze french.
too funny about the French..
Love the haircut.. I think it makes her look exactly like you
I am not just copying Sugarplum's Mom's comment when I say: OH MY GOODNESS does that child look EXACTLY like you. Your heads are even tilted similarly, if you compare that picture to your profile pic. Adorable!
What an imagination! Love the new haircut. She is such a cutie!
Darling haircut!
Oh my goodness! She looks so much like you! Are you both French?
Sa coiffure, c'est tres jolie! Elle est mignonne, bien sur ;-)
She is so cute...love her new short do! :)
Bliss.
C'est tres chic, cette coiffure la. Quelle fille mignonne!
So cute! I wish I could talk my Rachie into a shorter cut like that! Precious.
She's so cute.
I took French in high school. I was confused 90% of the time.
She does look French. And cute.
Probably everyone else has said it but...
ooh, la, la!
Too cute!
I love the cut!!
Zut alors! Those French!
Cutie patootie haircut!
That haircut is absolutely adorable!
Amelie!
Sweet girl.I love girl.
Holy cow does she look like you! Wow!
Brilliant!
I'm brand new to reading your blog but can already tell I'm going to love it!
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