Out of the Trash
In our family, we prefer to eat our food "out of the trash."
Laylee - Can I please eat a cheese stick out of the trash? (Okay, maybe I inserted the please in there erroneously, but it's possible she did actually say it.)
Me - NO! Yuck! (Maybe our "three second rule" is stretching to the point where I see Magoo eating something from the floor and am relieved to see it's "just a cheerio" who-knows-how-old and I let him keep chowing away, but we do have SOME standards)
Laylee (tearing up) - Please can I have it out of the trash?
Me - No, but (handing her a string cheese) you can have a cheese stick out of the fridge.
Laylee - Please mommy please (handing it back and pulling at the wrapper). Can you take it out of the trash?
Me - Ahhhhh......."out of the trash" = sans wrapper. Got it!
posted by Kathryn Thompson at 11:43 AM
6 Comments:
Oh how funny, that's definitely one to remember.
1/07/2006 1:49 PM
I stumbled across your site, and right now I can't stop laughing. I thought my family was bad: we eat things like slop, sticks and stones, and catastrophe(things that normal families would know as chicken casserole, macaroni with meat sauce, and scrambled eggs). Our preference for odd-ball names started when my son refused to eat eat normal food so I started renaming everything in hopes he'd think it was okay to eat it since it didn't sound like healthy food.
1/07/2006 3:05 PM
Moonface, you are a genius.
1/07/2006 3:31 PM
That is rad. Truly rad. Or it would have been rad in the early nineties. Now it is just a SWEET story. I'm relieved that Laylee wasn't begging for actual food out of the trash.
1/07/2006 10:09 PM
Funny, funny, funny. You all are "trash talking" up there, are you? I knew Laylee was an early talker, but to be trash talking too??? .... when are you going to teach her some french and chinese? :)
1/08/2006 1:28 PM
Makes sense to ME!!! Oh, wait, that must be because I, too, have a 3-year-old at home.
1/09/2006 6:18 PM
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