Elyse Pullman Swim Lessons

Crime and Punishment

 Today I went to pick up Amy from school and took her right home since we had plans to go swimming with the Golightly's .  When I got home Elyse was in her room crying.  I went to go see what was wrong, when she started trying to talk I thought she had done something that she felt bad about.  That was partially true. 

 The story:  

Elyse "Caia sent me to my room."

Mom: "Why did she send you to your room?"

Elyse still crying: "I licked the wall."

Mom: "You what?"

Elyse: "I licked the wall."

Mom: "Why did you lick the wall?"

Elyse: "To get the turkey flavor off my tongue." (the turkey we opened last night and I had some today for lunch, it was fine she just didn't like the taste.)

Mom: "Caia did you send your sister to her room for licking the wall?"

Caia: "Yes licking the wall is gross."

OK I don't know what made me laugh harder the fact that Elyse licked the wall or that Caia sent her to her room for it.  Every time I tell that story I laugh myself to tears!

Does Zyrtec work for that?

Setting: Dining Room Table
Time:    Dinner
Conversation:Not Allergies/Not Dinosaurs


Elyse: "Mom I'm allergic to Dinosaurs."
Mom:  "Oh yeah, that's a problem"
Amy:  "Yeah next time she walks into a museum she's going to start sneezing and prove to us that she IS allergic to dinosaurs."
Mom:"It'll be all the fake... fur?!?."
Elyse: "Oh NO!  not the fake dinosaurs, I'm only allergic to the real dinosaurs!"


No reason to argue this one!  I'm glad she makes me laugh!!

Quote of the day "Aawwsome! I stayed up all night, right mom, right?" This by Elyse after waking up at 3:30 am, having had a bad dream.  She had something to say at least every 15 min. It was so bad that when she announced she was going down to sleep with her sister in the basement I said "good" and I could hear her downstairs calling her sisters name, as if she didn't know where she would be at 5:00 am.  

Caia must have kicked her out after the lights were turned on, and Elyse demanded to know the color of cucumbers, and if Caia had a pumpkin this year, because she came back to my bed to "chat" some more.

Then the sun started to peek out and the realization hit her, "I stayed up all night!!".  8:00 am "I've been up a long time!"  10:00 am " I've been up looong time right mom?"   12:30 pm  I ask "Are you ready for a nap?"   Elyse "like when I was 3?"  "Yes like when you were 3, you need to stay on your bed until the Velveteen Rabbit is over." "Oh that's a long time." she says.  She then proceeds to put her PJ's on, just like when she was 3, I'd already forgotten that she ALWAYS slept in her PJ's for nap time.  By the time I started the MP3...she was out.

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