#35
Miss: Mum. I’m a crazy person.
Me: Uh… What?
Miss: Cray-sy. Cray-sy. I am a cray-sy person.
Me: <trying to figure out what word she could possibly be mis-pronouncing to make it sound like what I think I heard> Uh… Did you really just say you’re a crazy person?
Miss: Yes. I want to see a Crazy Doctor.
Me: What could you possibly have heard and where, is what I really want to know, that could make you say what it sounds like you’re saying right now.
Miss: Santa is Crazy.
Me: Oh you want to be like Santa. And for some reason you think he’s crazy so now you’re crazy too.
(Miss nods.)
Me: But Santa is also fat and hairy and has no dress sense, he wears red all the time.
Miss: I like red! Yaaaaaay!
Oh… kay. Red in common is one step up from crazy in common, so I’ll take it.
This is her sitting on a yucky floor pretending to be a — Ok not really, she’s having one of her not uncommon little “moments” much to my dismay (a. gain.) but come on, she does look a little like a crazy person here doesn’t she…
Oh look! Here she is, doing it again in the middle of the street…
I am as curious as you to want to know where she got the word from or did she mean some other word.
You are really a patient mother to wait it out when she has her moments. I know many parents here would just spank the child, or loudly scold the child or pretend to abandon the child by walking away.
I like her hairstyle. She kind of look very demure in the first photo.
(sheepish) we probably use “crazy” the very casual way – “I’m crazy about mints,” or “That’s a crazy-cool idea” – actually she probably meant something like that…
Re the other thing…. honestly she is very very exhausting on those days – maybe partly because we thought Rockstar was difficult already and people told us all this crap about how if your first is tough then your second will be easy (ok la that’s probably because of your learning curve or the some other thing about sibs having different personalities…. but we kinda took it to mean if you did the tough route already, next one’s a breeze and vice versa… which is unsubstantiated, not always true, and downright affects your tolerance level :P)