I have already needed to write down more Miryamisms in her “age 5” google doc, so I thought maybe I should get around to publishing her “age 4” collection. She turned five last month. She’s lost three baby teeth already, can write her first and last name without assistance, and uses logic against me all the time. Here is a new sampling of her many funny and cute moments! (See age 3.)
(regarding contents of photo above)
Miryam: What are they?
Me: Square worms!
Miryam: They’re not squares, they’re cubes.
“I’m trying to make a good viaduct so everyone can cross the Atlantic.”
Aunt Mary: Dinosaurs are all dead. They’re extinct.
Miryam: They stink!
Miryam: What’s our street?
Me: Butler Drive.
Miryam: Butler?! I don’t like Butler…it sounds like a butt…like gluteus maximus. That’s how you say bottom in Spanish.
“Mommy, we’re not making the churros from your baking show. We’re making the best churros!”
“I’m Daddy’s little sous chef.”
(clearly annoyed) “The only person who has magic powers that hasn’t been in a movie is Miryam!”
“Why are we the boring-est family?” (about 10 minutes after I denied her request to get a popsicle from the ice cream truck at the park)
Miryam (crying because she fell on her bottom): I was swinging on the couch and then something came up and pulled me down!
Me: It was probably gravity.
(I told her the babysitter is coming tonight because mommy and daddy are going to a party.)
Miryam: What kind of party?
Me: Just a party to hang out with people.
Miryam: Is it a bachelorette one, or what?
(To herself/her toys) “We live in the jungle. We are leopards and we live in the jungle.”
(To me) “….Do leopards live in the jungle?”
(about the word “electrocute”) “It still sounds cute, but it’s not. It has the word ‘cute’ in it, but…not very cute.”
“Do you want to know what was my favorite part of the Rapunzel movie that I watched with daddy? When she smacked the pan on the man’s face! It was so funny!”
“Whoever finds the most money gets the other kids’ money.”
“It’s not really fun to die on your birthday before the cake, because then you don’t get to blow out the candles.”
Justin (referring to poinsettias): Do you remember what those red flowers are called?
Miryam: Cat poison flowers?
Justin (aside to me): She’s not wrong.
For Christmas, she got two new baby dolls. She named one Miryan and one Miryai (meer-ee-eye).
I’m realizing some of these are kind of dark. 🤔 I guess we tend not to sugarcoat things around here. Also we are still working on non-egocentrism. She’s only five, after all. And I will say, she has outgrown the belief that she is “the real Elsa.” We’re making progress, I think.
“That’s how you say bottom in spanish” 😂
Right!? 😂