my life has been filled lately with news too big for the blogosphere at this point...so, instead, i'll relate an amusing conversation i had with a five year old last week.
ernie and i were fortunate enough to be the caretakers of a lovely five year old girl last weekend, while her mother (ernie's cousin) is in africa helping build houses in rawanda. her name is olivia, and she's quite precocious, and always witty. one of her favorite things to do while at our house (other than play with, or 'terrorize' our five month old hound dog) was to lounge around on the hammock in our back yard. one day, while her and i lounged on the hammock in the sun, she said the strangest thing to me.
olivia: 'can i ask you a question?'
me: 'sure'
olivia: 'why do you guys live in an apartment, if you're so rich?'
me: 'what??!, why do you think we're rich?'
olivia: 'well, you have a hammock, and a dog, and a shed, and you can watch movies in your back yard...' (back story, ernie and i occasionally borrow his projector from work and hang a sheet in our back yard and watch movies outside...while olivia was here, we watched 'mulan 2', and she loved being able to run in front of the screen and interact with the characters).
me: 'we're not rich, we're just fortunate.'
olivia: 'whatever'
it's funny to see your life through the eyes of a five year old...
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Did she really say 'whatever?' That is super-cute. Much cuter than that dumb little Olivia on the Cosby show.
You can't replace Rudy, you just can't.
yes, she really did say 'whatever'...another saying of hers, is 'literally', and 'seriously', in front of anything that she thinks you may not believe.
more annoying than the olivia on the cosby show, is what she became, that horrible raven simone chick on disney. give it up raven, it's just not cute anymore.
I WANNA WATCH MULAN IN YOUR BACK YARD TOO.
a back yard theatre sounds like a summertime wonder. willem would find that pretty amazing too.
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