Mallory let it slip. A commercial came on for some diet product or the other yesterday and Mallory said "Oh Mammy! You need that!"
I glanced at her and watched as she stammered and squirmed, afraid she'd hurt my feelings, and she said, "I don't mean that you're fat, I only mean that wherever you are things there get smaller. What I mean is that... s.. space that was big gets little-er when you go there. I'm saying that you're not fat, not at all, I mean when you stand someplace, where it was big, it isn't big anymore..."
I just blandly let her know that I understood what she meant.
You mean, I'm so HUGE that when I enter a room, there's no space for anyone or anything else. Right?
"No!! I mean that space is smaller...I mean that you aren't fat, it's just that places and spaces are just smaller, that's what I mean!"
I laughed out loud and she beamed, certain that I didn't know she was really saying that I'm beyond fat.
The little vampires know how to get into my locked bathroom. They use the holding end of a soup spoon and twist it into the little slit in the door knob and wahlah they're in there.
I was taking a bubble bath one day last week, suddenly they were all three blasting into the bathroom like gangsters - "Mammy, we KNEW you were taking a bubble bath, can we get in with you??"
I grabbed a towel, got out, and scolded them, "No, get out of here!"
Mallory drolly looked at the bubbles, then at Mikyla, then pointed to the water, saying, "Too late. She stood up and the water went away."