Lo Que Dice Emmett Primavera/Verano 2020

Emmett continues to be the class clown. He'll do anything to get a laugh. His eyes are so expressive and add to his silliness. He swears he doesn't understand Spanish every time I talk to him, but then does whatever I ask him and still says a lot of words in Spanish. Emmett still refers to vegetables as salads and I hope he never stops! He still can't say all of his sounds correctly and I continue to underestimate how smart he is because he sounds so little. His vocabulary is very good and when he uses words not typical of a five-year-old, I remember that just because he can't pronounce everything correctly doesn't mean he doesn't understand everything. 

“I wish coronavirus wasn’t real!” (I think we all feel the same buddy)

“Can you get me a pillow mattress?” (He wanted a cushion for a chair.)

“I don’t have any privates, only girls do. It’s where they go pee pee.”

“On your market, get setty, go!”

“Look at my shirt, it’s on backwards up!” (It was upside down)

Dada: “If you get ready quickly, you can see a surprise. But it’s not to keep.” Emmett: “Is it an orange? Or crocodiles?” (Other guesses included elephants and t-rexs. After he saw the box of kittens someone had left on our porch, he said he liked them but still wanted a crocodile!)

“I just wanna see, I don’t have that kind of patience because I’m not a grown up!”

Talking about using his napkin “I’m just gonna use it to erase all the stuff off my hands.”

“I got eight spits out of my cherries!”

“OMG dang it!” (followed by smacking himself in the face)

(As he pretends to put highlighter on the kitten’s lips)”Here’s some lips for you!”

(Looking at his poop in the toilet) "There’s a tiny Emmett poop, a medium Mama poop, and a big Dada poop. Sorry Clara, there’s no sister poop."

“I need to plug my phone up.” (Plug it in)

“My head is too big for everything!” (While putting sweater on)

“We don’t have to be nice, it’s not Mother’s Day.” (when I told him to be nice to me)

(Almost crying) “My rhino and my hippo are both girls.” Me: “How do you know?” Emmett: “Because they don’t have any penises.”

“Why did you get a bigger piece (of pizza) than Dada? Oh it’s because you’re mas chanchita (more of a pig)!”

“You mean in the 1924? She’s probably going to say we weren’t alive in the 1924. Dinosaurs were alive in the 19!”

(Talking about how it had been a year since Grandpa Bill died) “Was it summertime…in New York City?”

“Bella Creamberry” (Instead of Bella Creamery)

“Oh that’s where the lake goes, to Bailey and Elise’s house!” Me: “Lake?” Emmett: “Ok pond.” Me: “Ditch?” Emmett: “Fine, I’ll call it a ditch.” (It was a ditch)

“I wish I could have a baby rabbit come out of my tummy.”

“I don’t want any ringtails.” (Talking about onion rings)

“If you want, you can carry my hand.” (That's how you would say it in Spanish)

“I’m not fat, but I’m not as skinny as Clara. Mama, I think you are as skinny as her.” Dada: “What about me?” Emmett: “Yeah! You’re fat!”

Emmett (listening to Sean Paul): “What language is this? Is it Spanish?” Dada: “It’s English.” Emmett: “It doesn’t sound like English.”

(After Emmett had to poop in the woods) “Oh Dada, animals poop on the ground. I’m going to tell Mama what you made me do.”

(Surrounded by a group of girls) “Whoever wants to see my penis, they can!”

“Bailey, fireworks are fire and hot water!”

(Clara and Bailey were arguing about who was Clara’s best friend and Clara said, “I’m talking about friends, not cousins!”) Emmett: “I’m talking about junior high!”

“I might be the funniest boy in the world, I am pretty funny!”

“Where’s the veal?” (He meant viola)

(To Clara when she was wearing her dance costume) “That’s not a lot of covering.” Clara: “It’s more than I would have if I was Ariel!” Emmett: “But not more than Jasmine!”

“I’m just inside outing my undies!” ( they were inside out and he was fixing them)

“Namaste, amen!”

“Do you want to hear me kiss happy birthday?” (He proceeded to kiss to the tune of happy birthday)

Emmett: “What’s ensalada (salad)?” Dada: “You know what ensalada is.” Emmett: “Yucky!”

“It’s boys’ jobs to put their hands under girls’ dresses.” (I think we're in trouble with this one)

Clara: “Emmett, do you look guapecito (handsome)?” Emmett: “ I look...like a chicken with the face of a monkey!”

“Why did you get salad (veggie) pizza? It’s national pepperoni pizza day, not national salad pizza day!”

Lo Que Dice Clarita Primavera/Verano 2020

Clarita is my little sassy pants. She has a comeback for everything and is always thinking of an exception to the rule. Her vocabulary continues to grow, especially as she reads more and more. It's impossible to get anything by Clara and she understands more than we ever guess because she's always listening and paying attention. I'm pretty sure she's either training to be an activist or a lawyer...

“Dada’s booty and penis are on fire because of his undies!” (He has a red and orange Speedo on)

“Because he had fire panties on and I didn’t want to get on fire.” (Talking about why she refused to take a photo with Dada in his speedo after a water polo game.)

(Talking about Yoda) “He was older than Great Grandpa Bill!”

“What about two finity? The twos never stop.”

Clara: “It’s the gross hot chocolate.” Me: “It’s not gross.” Clara: “Then maybe my taste buds aren’t working.”

Me: “I need a glass of wine!” Clara: “You can’t have wine, that’s sugar!” (It was during Lent when I give up sugar)

Clara: “Baza [the cat] keeps sneezing. I hope he doesn’t have coronavirus.” Me: “Maybe he just has allergies.” Clara: “I hope he’s not allergic to people!”

“It says day of the dead, why doesn’t it say día de los muertos?” (while watching something about Dia de los muertos)

Emmett: “This feels cozy!” Clara: “No it doesn’t. This feels stressy! (to me) Now I know how you feel!”

“Help us gather asteroids, make yourself useful!” (they were collecting rocks)

“You wanna know the sad thing? I don’t want our cats to die, but I want a kitten. And it’s gonna take ages for them to die.”

“Can I get my shotter so I can shot them?” (talking about giving shots to people)

“I wish that when I was older and had a baby a kitten would come out!”

“I might get spaceship sick.” (Talking about going to space on SpaceX)

Emmett: “Clara doesn’t even know how pretty she is.” Clara: “I know how pretty I am, I’ve seen myself in the mirror.” (no self esteem problems here)

“I wish I had pilot fish to pick out the meat in my teeth.”

I was explaining what a hermit was and I started by saying it was a person who lived alone. Clara said, “Oh, like Aba!”

Talking about who may move into the house across the street and if they would have kids and she said, “What if it’s just humans?” (meaning adults)

Clara came running when I started a webinar. After a couple of minutes she said, “This isn’t for Black Lives Matter so I’m not interested.” I think we have a little activist!

“Do we have pictures of her? Were there even cameras when she was alive?” (Talking about pictures of her great grandma.)

Watching TV and the character was going to donate his cat shirts to charity because people made fun of him. Clara yells, “Donate them to me!”

Dad: "Clara, hurry up." Clara: "Dad, it’s not like an alien ship is going to crash into the earth and the earth is going to explode and I only have a few seconds to do something that I really want to do."

"Are you almost done brushing my hair? It sounds like bones are crushing."