Exercising her vocabulary
After school today Tom pulled a handful of "tricycle licenses" out of Edith's coat pocket looking puzzled. I explained that Sarah had been handing them out liberally this morning to all her classmates as "tickets" (whether of the entrance-permitting or the punitive variety I'm not sure). Edith jumped in,
"Unfortunately I took the tickets away from Sarah, because I wanted to hand them out."
At least she's honest.
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I took Edith for a haircut after school today. I reminded her that the hairdresser might pull her tangles a bit when combing out her hair or might ask her to look up or down or to the side and to hold still. She nodded.
"And I won't even struggle against her," she promised.
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After dinner we were on the playground. Edith was in the middle of climbing the jungle gym, the hardest piece of equipment for her, when a number of big kids came tearing out on to the playground, running up the slide, chasing each other, and yelling. Edith watched them, frowned, then announced,
"Those boys won't distract me. As soon as they go home it will be better, and I will keep climbing."
"Those boys won't distract me. As soon as they go home it will be better, and I will keep climbing."
2 comments:
Edith's sentence construction sounds very much like a politician's on the stump. It's the formalness of it, the determined nature behind it. Can't you see Edith rallying a nation of toddlers behind her message of hope? "It will get better. And we ... will... keep...climbing!" Very inspiring.
Ha! to Hobokener. That's awesome.
I miss Edith. You guys have a Boston trip planned this summer? :)
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