You know how when you hang out with a particular subset of geek friends, conversations often devolve into quotes from, say Star Wars or Star Trek or Kevin Smith movies or ... I don't know, Madonna songs?* In our house, conversations lately tend to devolve into quotes from Sandra Boynton boardbooks.
Some I perpetuate.
Scene, Angelfish in crib calling to be picked up. Mommy enters.
Me: Shout out loud good morning sun!
Angelfish: Happy morning everyone!
More happen organically.
Scene, kitchen. Clownfish in fridge, Angelfish eating breakfast in high chair.
Clownfish: Can I have a (yogurt treat) with my breakfast?
Me: Well, you've had a bunch of fruit... why not save it for a morning snack?
Clownfiah: Morning snack is here for you. Milk and cookies and broccoli stew.
Angelfish: EW!
Clownfish: For the bunny, not for you.
Angelfish: OH WHEW!
Scene, shopping mall, with stroller full of girls. Conversation in which Clownfish and I discuss our family "dinosaur names" -- I am mommysaurolophus, as an example.
Me: We can't take the stairs.
Clownfish: Dinosaurs crammed in an elevator!
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* No? Maybe its just my friends then. Hmm.
Quotes are from Hey Wake Up! and Oh My Oh Dinosaurs! by Sandra Boynton.
So, we call Lis the babysaurus. Or, when she's grumpy, the grumpasaurus. If she's screaming, it's grumpasaurus rex
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