5.31.2007

Communication

"Snack?"

"You're hungry, sweetie? What can I get you?"

"[mumblemumble] crackers."

"Okay. Do you want goldfish crackers?"

"No!"

"Fine, geez. What crackers do you want?"

"Grandma crackers."

"Grandma crackers? Did grandma give you special crackers this weekend?"

"Grandma crackers."

I pull out every type of crackers we have - Wheat Thins. Stoned Wheat Thins. Carr's. Organic Stoneground Wheat...

"No! Grandma crackers."

"Sweetie, I'm sorry, I don't know what grandma cra...ohhhhh wait. Do you mean these?"


"Grandma crackers! Yayyyy!"


27 Comments:

Blogger Hol said...

Oh my gosh! That is too cute!

5/31/07, 6:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hee hee thats sweet.

5/31/07, 6:20 PM  
Blogger motherbumper said...

Now that is one smart little lady.

5/31/07, 6:46 PM  
Blogger Phoenix said...

Hmmmm I want some Grandma Crackers too.

She's so cute. I'm sure her Grandma would love to hear this story.

5/31/07, 7:13 PM  
Blogger Wendy said...

Hey, I love those, too.

5/31/07, 7:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The daddy at your house may be a nicer mommy than you are, but you are still a much nicer mommy than I am. I think we've got an old box of Rosemary and Olive Oil Triscuits that suffices as "crackers" here.

5/31/07, 8:07 PM  
Blogger Fairly Odd Mother said...

Hey, you speak toddler! Very cute!

5/31/07, 8:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mmm...now I have a hankering for some graham crackers. Maybe I'll call my grandma and tell her to send some over here post haste!

5/31/07, 8:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love grandma crackers! And you, my friend, keep an awful lot of crackers in your house. Or maybe I just keep too few?

5/31/07, 9:07 PM  
Blogger PunditMom said...

Yup! Cinnamon beats Wheat Thins ANY day! ;)

5/31/07, 9:56 PM  
Blogger Jaelithe said...

This is like how my son calls hammers "Ambers" after his aunt . . .

5/31/07, 10:03 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Errrr...at least they say "Nature" on them. That means healthy, right?! :-)

5/31/07, 10:04 PM  
Blogger Claire said...

very nice!

5/31/07, 11:05 PM  
Blogger Jennifer said...

Cute!

6/1/07, 3:13 AM  
Blogger Lara said...

are they made with real grandmas?

6/1/07, 3:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had a similar conversation with my three year old a few days ago. My husband bought him some sort of generic cereal then hid it in a cabinet we rarely use. He kept asking me for Kangaroo cereal and I kept offering Total, Kashi, oatmeal...finally I opened the cabinet he pointed to and there was a giant bag of puffed corn cereal with a blue kangaroo on it. Of course.

6/1/07, 8:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love it. I'm glad I'm not the only one who goes through this.

Dawson demanded "joop joops" one morning. It took me twenty minutes to figure out he was saying "Fruit Loops" because my mother has a box at her house. All we had were Cheerio's.

6/1/07, 9:52 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I finally brought Bug home from the hospital, Fric and Frac had spent almost a year in the daily care of my dad, so I could be with the baby.

It was an adjustment and I was riddled with guilt. To compensate, I tried to jump through all the damn hoops they showed me.

But I couldn't figure out why they kept asking for jelly beans. I would give them some, they would look at them and then have a fit, because those weren't the jelly beans Grampa gave them. (They were four and three.)

I bought every damn type of jelly beans I could get my mitts on. None of them worked.

I was at my wit's end and my kids were starting to morph into demons about the damn mysterious jelly beans.

Finally, I phoned my dad up and asked him what type of jelly beans he gave the kids.

His response:

Canned baked beans.

Fucker. Who calls those things jelly beans?

6/1/07, 11:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't know which comment cracked me up more-Lara's Addams Family reference, or Redneck Mommy's!

6/1/07, 11:57 AM  
Blogger Mom101 said...

Elizabeth - I'd call it a tie! If either of you want to guest blog any time...

6/1/07, 12:17 PM  
Blogger Slackermommy said...

Too cute! I've had many conversations like that with mine. Frustrating at the time but funny once I figure it out.

6/1/07, 12:45 PM  
Blogger j.sterling said...

LMMFAO @ GRANDMA CRACKERS ! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

6/1/07, 1:24 PM  
Blogger Lara said...

lady, if you ever asked me to guest blog for you i think i would literally fall over and piss myself with the sheer shock of something so amazing happening to little ol' not-even-a-mommy me. honest to god, i want to push you out the door to a vacation now, just so i can guest blog for you. how does aruba strike you? or fiji? or even the marriott down the street? ;)

6/1/07, 7:24 PM  
Blogger carrie said...

I love "kidspeak".

Carrie

6/3/07, 2:22 AM  
Blogger Maewen Archer said...

Yes, I've had quite a few conversations like that myself. They're so funny -- kids get really offended if you don't understand what they're talking about too.

6/3/07, 9:15 AM  
Blogger Damselfly said...

Are they great-grandma crackers when you use them to make s'mores?

6/4/07, 6:14 PM  
Blogger Lady M said...

Haha!

I had a goofy mis-hearing story from dinner today, except that I have no excuse (well, maybe a noisy restaurant) because the speaker was an adult. He was explaining that he'd worked on technical systems so old that they held mag-amps . . . and I heard "maggots" - talk about confusing.

6/5/07, 2:53 AM  

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