{"id":4196,"date":"2018-06-22T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2018-06-21T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:10:38","slug":"math-and-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"That Would Be Too Much Math (and Other Sayings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=4197\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1978-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1978-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1978-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1978-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_1978-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>Last summer, I shared some of the funny things Baby-Girl has said in the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Case I Step in Poop with One Foot (and Other Sayings).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve still been mostly negligent when it comes to writing down the things she says, but over the last year I have managed to record a few more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>In the middle of a lively discussion on the way to school, Baby-Girl, known for being quiet in public and loud at home, announced, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 90% of the sound in this family.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I asked her to repeat what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d said just to clarify, and we all sat quietly, waiting for her to speak. After a pause and a sigh, she mumbled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never mind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then, as we all pondered this, I heard her whispering to herself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more like 40%\u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u201dno\u00e2\u20ac\u201d50%. No, 30% maybe, or maybe 55%.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>One afternoon, after I reprimanded her for something minor, she started packing her lunch. While she worked, she turned to me and asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have you ever noticed that when you call me out on something, you get away with it, but if I call you out on something, I lose dessert that night?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>This one comes in all shapes and sizes and goes something like this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not fair that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a sister.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sometimes, her approach is tacit and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give me a significant look when we witness an exchange between two sisters. Last summer, on the other hand, when her friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother had a baby girl and I showed her some pictures on Facebook, Baby-Girl folded her arms and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so lucky! I have two brothers and NO sisters. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up with that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as if I should sit and philosophize with her on the matter. But the best is when she says this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so unfair. So-and-so has a sister and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not even allowed to get a hamster.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>After spending the day cleaning her room and throwing away several bags of garbage, Baby-Girl sat down next to me and handed me a card. I opened it, and on the inside she had scribbled a note that said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank you for being my mom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then she explained. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a blank card that came inside a present you bought me last year, and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to throw it away without using it first.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>The other day, she told me she wants to be either a math teacher or an engineer when she grows up, and then she asked about what degrees she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d need for those professions. We began talking about her options, and I threw out a few possibilities of schools for her to consider. When I mentioned that she could also consider MIT, her brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dream school, she shook her head. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, no,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That would involve too much math if I went there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I looked at her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But you want to be a math teacher or an engineer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know. But <em>that<\/em> would be too much math.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I forgot to follow up on last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sleepover. Reportedly, she was successful in making it through the night without stepping in poop with one foot. Thought y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all would want to know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I shared some of the funny things Baby-Girl has said in the post \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Case I Step in Poop with One Foot (and Other Sayings).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve still been mostly negligent when it comes to writing down the things she says, but over the last year I have managed to record a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2292,2295,105,2294,2293],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-parenting","tag-baby-girl-makes-me-laugh","tag-beach-life-with-kids","tag-island-life","tag-kid-humor-by-the-beach","tag-that-girl-is-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}