Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: And we LOLed

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

29 July 2011

And we LOLed

We thought that Jessie was saying "Fashionista" when talking about a Barbie Fashionista game she had seen. Then we realised she was saying "Fashiony-Star." That was pretty close, we thought.

She's absorbed many lines from the movies she's seen, and sometimes combines them. Her cry of frustration is, "Oh for the love of crying out loud!"

And we LOLed when she dressed as a princess, cuddled her little pink doll, put a mechanical toy screwdriver to her Daddy's head and said,

"I've got killer in my eyes!" (Thanks Rango?)

6 comments:

Allegro ma non troppo said...: There's a line in penguins of Madagascar you'd like - that dame is a mystery wrapped in an enigma dunked in crazy sauce.; 29 July, 2011 20:56
Unknown said...: Those kids say the darndest things!; 30 July, 2011 00:21
Tracy P. said...: She's awesome. "Oh for the love of crying out loud!" I'm gonna have to borrow that one! :-); 30 July, 2011 16:24
Selena said...: sweet, yet armed and dangerous!!; 01 August, 2011 18:53
B said...: You have the coolest kids!

My kids quote movies too, with some cute errors...

Madagascar - 'Lip stick and a whole lotta duck tape'
{meant to be "Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape'}

Kids are cool.; 02 August, 2011 08:56
Swift Jan said...: I think "Oh for the love of crying out loud" is soooo totally my new one also... and I also LOLed at Jessie's killer eyes!! LOL LOL; 10 August, 2011 08:19

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

My sweet niece ...

29 July 2011

And we LOLed

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