it’s been forever since i rounded up some of maddalena’s best quotes and topics of conversation!! oh my goodness. this girl. she’s literally the best. she’s an adult in a little bitty body. i seriously would lose my head without her, but we have to remind her all the time to be a child and soak. it. UP! because she has total firstborn syndrome. however, she’s also hilarious. she makes our days brighter, sweeter, and a little bit spicier, and it’s theee best.
we last left off in spring ’17!
“…you can tell me something that i haven’t heard… like ‘maddo, wanna read a book with me? or maddo, wanna play salon again? or maddo, would you play another song?'”
[explaining that asking if she needs to potty, however, is “ridiculous”]
“mommy! i’m telling you i wanna shmelt my brain.”
[giving the hard sell on another ep of doc mcstuffins]
a few of her 4 year old phrases…
“forever-leaves trees” are evergreens
“you’re mostly welcome!”
“very instresing!”
“mom… i found something that doesn’t look like poop… and i don’t recognize it.”
[it was a huge fat juicy tick on the rug. southern summers!]
[a casual little lunch convo while rocco napped]
b: “so, what are your thoughts? hopes and dreams? desires? ponderings?”
m: “mm. swans and stuff.”
b: “i LOVE thinking about swans.”
m: “they’re very pretty.”
[in the car heading out to target]
m: “mommy. i’m sorry for yelling at you.”
b: “aw, baby, thank you for saying that. i forgive you.”
[as i paused to ponder how i could elaborate on the opportunity this tender topic has opened]
m: “apologizing makes me think of nail polish. it’s very… nail polishy.”
[at target, i’m trying on a dress]
m: “that is sooo cute.”
[as i’m putting it on and zipping it up]
m: “oh my gosh. it’s getting cuter!”
[9am on a wednesday, i don’t want to turn on the tv but she wants to watch a show]
b: “i want to go look at flowers!”
m: “you can look at flowers on the internet.”
“mom put all of the pictures you take of us on your blog if you think some are cute.”
“mom, remember that song ‘you don’t get what you want, you get what you need?’ well i neeeeeeeeed lots of it.”
[she wanted to use my entire basket of hair accessories on her dolls]
[viewing a spectacular rainbow in our back yard…]
“thank you, God, for this rainbow!”
[to rocco on the topic of grilled cheeses]
“that’s called a girl cheese!”
[thinking out loud…]
“what if they called them boy cheese?”
[discussing the miracle of God making people, grass, and…]
m: “i wonder how God made fences?”
b: “well. God doesn’t make fences.”
m: “!!!!! then where do they come from?”
b: “people build fences!”
m: “mom, let’s pretend like you don’t know me, but i came over for dinner.”
b: “okay, i don’t know you! but i’m so glad you’re here for dinner!”
m: “i follow your instagram.”
“my dream… is to be a master star.”
[think she meant superstar ;)]
m: “roccoooo! comé sta!”
[…mimicking my grandpap]
r: “pappap?”
“my hair’s just a RIDICULOUS, too-crazy hair.”
[adorably mad because she couldn’t achieve the hair style she was working on]
“say, rocco, why don’t you play with the ball?”
[this girl and her old soul. straight out of leave it to beaver!]
m: “i ate a pea… and i liked it. it tasted like mascarus. mascara… mascarus.”
b: “you mean asparagus?”
[during dinner]
m: “mom, your vegetables are the best.”
b: “!!!!!!!! awwwwww i love you!!!!!!”
m: “…’cept these.”
[after i turned the wrong way in pickup line]
b: “man, i am looking like a doofus.”
m: “why? because of your bun?”
[she has a serious thing about me driving with a top bun.]
[backseat conversations…]
m: “hey rocco…”
r: “yeah?”
m: “when i’m in kindergarten… you’ll get to take me EVERY day!”
r: “YAAAAAY!!!!”
[recalling an earlier chat with some school friends]
m: “i told A and P i had kittens.”
b: “oh yeah? and what did they think about that?”
m: “they were like ‘what?! you have kittens?!'”
b: “what do they have?”
m: “well… A has a dog that’s about to die… and P has a dog that already DID die.”
“rocco, why do you say ‘yes’ so aggressively?”
“mom… when are we going to blog ‘taking care of your skin’ again?”
“can you say ‘i can do it’ with me? when i say something out loud, my body actually trust-es me.”
[she is so wise.]
[when asked what songs they were singing for the school christmas program…]
“glory hallelujah and feliz la-vi-da and please come let us adore him”
[telling me what she was learning about in her music class at school…]
“we’re learning about precaution instruments… and wooden instruments.”
“do you ever wonder like… why we’re here? and why God made us? and who is God? and WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?”
[she’s a deep one. welcome to the rest of your life, baby girl!]
[sounding very serious…]
m: “can we… talk?”
b: “sure, baby! we can always talk!”
m: “okay! what do you wanna talk about?”
b: …….
and i have to also note, that as we were walking into maddalena’s parent/teacher conference back in the spring… a classmate’s mother stopped on her way out to tell us her little girl had told her one day that “she didn’t think maddalena had ever sinned.” hahahaha. we’ll never get over that one, i don’t think! she’s an angel, for real. and the absolute sassiest little angel you’ll ever meet. 😉
oh, maddalena rose! you keep the world turning, girlfriend. I LOVE YOU!!
[ps. all the past convos!]
Oh my word your daughter is too much! Love all these little snippets! And instagram love! Already! She is such a cool girl!
oh, you know these kids! they keep me young! 😉
Kids are so awesome! They say the most hilarious things. But then sometimes they say things that reveal a wisdom beyond their years. Love this!
so true, both of those things!!!
I know I’m probably so behind the times, but what app do use to create the captions on your pictures?
those are just from instagram stories!!!! totally the easiest way to combine a note and a photo these days. for me at least. 😉