Remembering the Good Times: Kids Say the Darndest Things

I was going to break into “crazy Candice” but then...E Day 2010 happened. It made for a great day and a great experience so I wanted to share that with you first.

A few months back one of my little cousins had her 4th Birthday. As a gift the hubby and I suggested having an “E” day, where the entire day would be about her (her name starting with an E). This seemed like a good gift idea since she has 2 other siblings and we figured she may like an entire day of attention. Well we figured right!

After months of trying to get a day off from work it happened. We picked little E up around 12:30. We asked her if she’d rather go to Chucky Cheese or the Children’s Museaum...sure enough Chucky Cheese won, which was great for the hubby.

We got to this magical place and asked little E what she would like for lunch and she responded "pizza and cottage cheese." What kid says cottage cheese? We looked at the menu and didn't see cottage cheese as an option so we just ordered pizza. A few minutes later, E asked if the cottage cheese was coming. So we asked one of the girls behind the counter if they had sides of cottage cheese. We were told that there was cottage cheese on the salad bar but if we really wanted it they would give us a bowl for just that. So we got E a bowl of cottage cheese and pizza, just as she ordered it.

After the lunch was over (the pizza was terrible by the way) the games began. The hubs might have had more fun than little miss E, especially after a few glasses of Mellow Yellow (my hubs favorite drink that they served everywhere in Minnesota and no where in Chicago). It was here that E asked to go to the bathroom. When we asked her if she needed help and she responded only when she goes number 3. Do you know what number 3 is? We didn’t, so we asked her and she told us. We couldn’t believe how forward and honest she was so we giggled to ourselves and went on with the day.

After winning some candy and a lip gloss watch from Chucky Cheese we asked E if she wanted to head to our house or go sledding. E said let’s go home so we can play with Minne (that’s our wonder dog). We got home and Minne greeted us with lots of kisses.

Through out the rest of the evening we just let E pick everything she wanted to do and everything she wanted to eat as the day was entirely about her. Towards the end of the night she said, “lets pretend tomorrow is E day too.”

She said some really other cute things too. At one point, we told her that hubby's birthday was next week. She asked how old he would be and we told her 29. Her response? "Oh like a grandpa." Obviously my husband is no where close to being a grandpa so it made us laugh for quite a bit.

E was abel to stay the night and experience her first sleep over. We watched E create multiple Miis for Wii and eats lots of everything. At one point she asked for a cutie (or what we would call a clementine) and said "I am a cutie so I should eat a cutie." The hubs even made chocolate cookies during Monsters vs Aliens, which E took one bite of then stopped eating. A few minutes later I noticed the cookies were burnt at the bottom. I asked E if she liked them and she said no very quietly as if she didn't want to hurt hubs feelings. That's ok, he felt so bad he gave her burnt cookies that he gave her 3 donuts instead. She was in a very happy place!