Presumably this conversation occurred while the girls were playing some sort of vampire role-playing game:
Dina: You know Rosa Parks? I knew her.
Bassie: I knew George Washington. I was his Prom date.
Dina: I was his cat.
etcetera…
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Regarding the buying of a birthday present for a mutual male friend:
Bassie: I know what boys like.
Dina: (pleadingly) Please…tell me what boys like!
Um…are you two talking about the same thing? Because I think Bassie’s talking about a Webkins…
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Bassie: Mom, they should make an app that’s a magnifying glass.
Me: Like, you mean, you hold up the phone to something and…
Bassie: Yeah, and you see it on the screen bigger. They must be able to do that, right?
Me: I guess. I think so. That’s a really great idea. You should develop apps.
Bassie: Mm-hmm.
We [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Bassie, while watching an ad for the re-release of Sleeping Beauty: “Mom, you know what I don’t like? When they take a line that a character said in a movie and recut it so it sounds like the character is saying it about the movie. Like, ‘This is so great!”, like they think the movie [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Okay, so for those of you over the age of 40 who don’t even know what twitter IS, I’ve compiled some of my tweets about the girls over the last few weeks. Remember: tweets can only be 140 characters long, so the following represent not only the funniest things they say, but also the most [...]
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Bassie: You know what’s been bothering me lately?
Me: What?
Bassie: If someone says “it’s cold outside”, you can’t respond by saying “It’s”.
Pause…me thinking…
Me: You’re right, you can’t. And if I ask you “have you done your homework?”, you can’t respond by saying “I’ve”.
Pause…her thinking…
Bassie: No, you can’t.
Me: That’s weird. Because those are both technically sentences [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
At Target, Dina sees a giant hanging sign advertising some of the men’s clothing line there.
Dina: Ooh…they’re hot!
Me: Yes, because they’re models.
Dina: You mean, they’re not real people?
Me: No, they’re real people, but they’re paid to look good in clothing. Why do you think the advertisers would want people to look hot in their ads? [...]
Dina had a gentleman caller on Friday afternoon. Or, well, more accurately, I was toting Bassie, Dina, and Dina’s little boyfriend around Coolidge Corner. While in the car, they were make jokes that I guess were funny to a 1st grader. The jokes, in the interest of full disclosure, had to do with listing attributes [...]
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Dina’s been having some 1st grade social issues. One girl who goes around telling everyone she’s her best friend (for the day) and wreaking havoc on preexisting relationships, a group of girls who seem kind of nice, but who just sit around doing nothing all of recess regarding whom Dina is at a complete loss [...]
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
“That stuff you give me that you say tastes like strawberry: it doesn’t taste like strawberry. It tastes bad. Just don’t say it tastes like strawberry.”
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