Out of the mouths of babes

El is well known around here for saying some funny, cheeky stuff. Seriously, I could write a book with all her funny quotes... a big book.

I have two that happened just this week that I want to write so I can show her when she's older some of the things that would come out of her cheeky mouth...

1. The Tooth Fairy

Me: "Elly, put your Arieal's (doll) hair tie some where safe, so you don't loose it."

Elly: "I'll put it in my pocket for safe-keeping"

Me: "It'll get lost! 'What about you put it under your pillow?"

Elly: "No, no, no! It's not a tooth! Only a tooth can go under a pillow! That way, the tooth fairy will come and give you a coin! Otherwise, when the tooth fairy comes she will say "What! That's not a tooth..."

(*as Elly walks off chatting away in her tooth fairy character and leaving me wondering what the point of the conversation was in the first place!?)

2. Maniac

(* I pull into the petrol station, fill up go and pay while kids wait in car. The shop is only a few meters away, so I can see and hear them screaming and shouting at each other- a little game they like to play... who can scream the loudest and then laugh their heads off!)

Me: "Guys! I could hear you screaming like maniacs all the way in the store!"

Elly: "Mum, what's a maniac?"

Me: "A maniac is someone who screams and shouts like a crazy person"

Elly: "So mum, you're a maniac!"

Me: "What!"

 (*shocked and offended she would say such a thing! Thinking to myself, "oh dear, do I shout too much? And am I really noticeably crazy?" I thought I hid that part of my personality pretty well.)

Me: "Why am I a maniac? 'I'm not a maniac, am I?"  (*anxiously waiting for her reply)

Elly: "Yeah mum, you know, like the time the magpie swooped you!"

Me: " oh ok, point taken."

(Just goes to show I was NOT exaggerating when I said I ran and screamed like a crazy person in my magpie encounter post!)