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Me: “Come look at this, Emma! It’s a picture of Ms. Monica in her beautiful dress. She got married!”
Emma: “Ooooohhhh.”
Me: “Do you know what married is? Daddy and I are married.”
Emma: “Yeah and Gima and I are going to be married.”
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We are in the car on the way home from work/daycare and Emma notices we are taking a different route than usual:
Emma: “Where are you going mommy?”
Me: “Oh, I was in the wrong lane and couldn’t get over. So now we’ll go this way and get back on track.”
Emma: “Cars don’t go on tracks!”
Me: “Well, that’s true, it’s just a figure of speech.”
Emma: “TRAINS go on tracks. And there is Thomas the Train, and Percy, and Emily…”
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Me: “What did you do to the TV? You put it on the Spanish channel, silly.”
Emma: “No, that’s not the Spanish channel.”
Me: “Yes it is, listen, they’re speaking Spanish.”
Emma: “No, they’re speaking Christmas! See the Christmas trees?”
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Emma is playing with one of those memory game where you look for the matching pictures.
Emma: “I’m looking for the other horse. Oh, this is really hard work!”
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Me: “Emma, is this shirt too small for you? I think it might be.”
Emma: “No it’s not too small.”
Me: “It almost is. You’re getting so big.”
Emma: “I’m not big. When my teeth fall out, then I will be big.”
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We are at HEB, where there are large signs hanging from the ceiling all around the perimeter showing people being happy because they shop at HEB or whatever — you know, standard grocery store decor. Emma comments on all of them.
A single photo is divided into two panels with a gap between them:
Emma: “Look that girl is half together!”
One banner shows a man wearing a hard hat and holding a hammer:
Emma: “Look that man is fixing something. I think he’s fixing the toilet.”
One banner shows a woman in a graduation cap:
Emma: “Look that lady is smiling. I think she is smiling because she likes her blue hat.”
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She notices bird sitting on power lines and power poles as we drive down the road.
Emma: “Look at those birds on the tree fence!”
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Emma: “bleh biit sashhy ffrrah”
Jose: “What?”
Emma (laughing): “Oh I don’t know what I said!”
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