Suzy and Avery

I transcribed a conversation my four year old had with her friend and made a movie of it. Suzy's using her advanced manipulation skills to get her way. I think it's a cute idea to take the little funny stories and cute sayings of our children that we love so much and save them by making a cartoon of it. If I ever get a faster computer, I will make more of these. Right now it takes a shameful amount of time. My poor old iBook just can't handle it!

My Unfortunate Grandchildren...

Yesterday Suzy told me when she grows up, she will get married, and then have babies. I asked her what she'd name them.
"Lisa,Eric, Erin, Ruben, Lisa..."
"You already said Lisa."
*Gives me a disparaging look* "I have lots of children." So many, they apparently don't get individual names.
"Any others?"
"Candeefra, Tanna, Hannah, Lisa..."
"Another Lisa!"
"Momma!"
"Rick, Ruben..."
"You said Ruben already."
"...and the baby - Lisa."

The Sounds of Silence...

I am musically unskilled in every way. I can't play an instrument. I can't even clap in rhythm. I most certainly cannot sing.
But I love it. So I do it anyway, when no one is around to suffer. No one except my daughter, that is. And she does suffer.
She went through a phase of wanting to take her Hello Kitty "earmuffins" with her whenever I drove anywhere. In the summer. I just thought she liked them, until the day she asked from the back seat, "Are you done singing now?" When I said I was, she said, "Good, now I can take off these ear muffins."
Yesterday I was belting out "I Need Thee Every Hour" (or the house-cleaning song) as we cleaned up her room. Suzy said she thought it was too loud. So I sang a verse more softly. She said that was still too loud. I sang a line very softly, and asked her if that was better. She said, "It is, but how about you sing like this?" at which point she began to silently mouth the words.
I burst out laughing, and then I was moved to pity. I passed the rest of the time listening to podcasts, and Suzy's audial suffering came to an end.

Suzy's Epic Song

Suzy just spent about ten minutes dancing around the coffee table to an epic song of her own invention. I was washing dishes, so I only remember these two parts.

Part I - "I am a sinner, Jesus is a sweater knitter." Where exactly does that girl get her theology?

Part II - This was her life, as she wishes it to be:
"I am a ballerina,
with long waaaavy hair,
and also an angel,
When I go to stores,
my momma never tells me noooooo!"