the quotable kid

It's been a busy-ish week around these parts. Somebody besides Mama decided to do a show and has been in tech all week while working all day and is generally getting his ass handed to him on a daily basis. I used to say I stopped doing theater regularly because I'm lazy. Now that I'm doing a show, I realize that I'm really missing being home with Kiddo.

This is what happens when she goes to "work" with Mama.

Please understand that I also miss Kiddo's Mama, but Mama is awake when I get home so we still get to hang out. There have been days this week where I only get to see her adorableness for an hour before rushing off to my next thing. I'm having fun working on the show, but I miss being around for dinner and bath and tuck-in time. So I am bummed to be missing some stuff, but Mimi keeps me pretty well updated via text and the Kid never fails to delight when I am around.

Except it might be a little soon for makeup.

Let's see, apparently she climbed a tree in the playground at school. She was kind of hanging around it looking suspicious and her Sensei told her to get away from it, twice, then turned around a minute later and the Kid was up the tree sitting on a branch with a look that said, "What?"

She's been reading this stack of Dr. Slump comics a lot lately, too.

This morning Mimi was drying her hair and the kid walked in, sans culottes, and announced "I peed." Apparently she had to go so she just went. Climbed onto the toilet and took care of business. That feels like a milestone I should be making a bigger deal about. Later this evening the kid suddenly dragged her portable frog potty into the kitchen and sat down. Okay, so she also peed all over her dress, but she made the effort all by her onesie, so there's that.

Taking notes for her blog where she will write about what I do in the bathroom.

And lately she's been saying some stuff that just makes us scratch our heads.

After being told to finish her hard-boiled egg she had requested for lunch: "It's not an egg. It's a pine cone."

After a particularly tough disagreement and time-out session, she picked up her toy cell phone, dialed a number and uttered, "Hello? I'm crying and I need some ice to help it so goodbye."

This is the ice she got.

On the way home from school after the tree-climbing incident she looked out the window and proclaimed: "I want to go up in the sky and ride on a cloud."

Don't we all, kid?