AleVit Thoughts While in the BATHTUB

V: You know why I don't float? Because my butt is fat. A, you are skinny so your butt is small and you can float.

A: Mamá, you can stay in here and do whatever you want. You can pee, cut your nails, make diarrhea.

V:You can't smoke!

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V: Even when I was born I always tried to talk but I couldn't.

V at bedtime: When are we going back to our real house?
Me: This is our real house.
V: Why didn't we bring the BONK beds from our house?

V: Do you like babies?
Me: Yes.
V: If we get one, will you love us more than the baby?

V: I am in a bad mood.
Me: Why?
V: Stop talking, it's all your fault.

V: You know what I do when I get nightmares? I take them and squash them and put them under my pillow.

V on LOVE and other midget musings

V to me: I love you like a circle because a circle does not end.
Me: Who told you that?
V: I know it.

Later that day when he heard me sharing his poetic line with tía C (he is very embarrassed when I repeat what he says: That is not how you treat love; don't laugh.

Later when I took a stick away from him: I do not love you like a circle anymore!
Me: That hurts my feelings and makes me sad.
V: Well you made me sad first!

V: Are you going to love me when I am big like papi?
Me: Of course.
V: Are you going to send him away?
Me: No. When you are big like papi I am going to be old and you are going to fall in love with a boy or girl your own age.
V: No, I thought about that but I just want to love you.

J to me in the car after I FREAKED out getting lost: I knew you were not lost mamá, just confused and scared.
Me: Some people are just not meant to drive.
J: You know how to drive mamá, you just have to get experience. In a few years you will be good like papi.

V was play shooting everyone and L in jest said: You are going to shoot me? I can't believe it.
V: That's what best friends are for!

A when I told her she could have a sleepover with her best friend next year since they won't be in the same school: I am too young for a sleepover in New York City!

Sunday Leftovers

V did not really get it. He asked me last night when he was going to graduate again. He says that he thought he was going to get bigger and could not see himself visibly bigger. He also does not understand why he is not going to school NOW. He still asks "Is it a BT day?"

M to me on farts: Mine smell like yours but more gentle.

J on 16 Handles: When I retire I want to work here.

V observing a homeless person: Do people with no houses visit people?

The End of an ERAHHH

Today the mini monkeys will "graduate" from their day care/pre - school where they have been for the last four years. When J graduated I was already pregnant with them but today seems like a more definite good bye as the institution will be moving in the spring. Here are some recent comments on this occurrence.

A- I am beautiful today, just beautiful!

V: I just don't know one thing about your school.
Me: What?
V: I don't know how to write my name.
Me: Don't worry; you will learn.
V: Are you going to teach me?

V- K (movement teacher) says our with the old and in with the new!
A- That means we are getting out of BT and going into a new school!

V to me- Can you sit in the front of graduation?
Me- I do not know if I can get a seat in the front, I will wave to you.
V- You will interrupt the audience.