@maique 🥰🥰🥰 I can relate with this sentiment
@maique search the web for “terrible two”. Wait a few months. Come back here to tell us more about this. #kidding
@maique write down what she says, now and over the next years; you will treasure that collection for the rest of your lives.
@annahavron @maique Seconded. My friends’ daughter said things that seemed like they came from a different logic system. They were startling and funny, but they slipped from our minds like minnows through a net.
@maique Adding my voice to the advice to write it all down. I have a text document (that gets triple backed up) on my phone where I put anything and everything she says that strikes me. Reading back through it is almost as good as a picture.
@gregmoore @annahavron @maique The big move would be to use Day One and publish a book of these things. (discovered this feature via @patrickrhone – can’t find the post about it right now – and can’t stop thinking about it)
@gregmoore @maique FWIW, my plan for all of the Beatrix, age X quotes I collect is to print them into a book as a gift for her on her 18th Birthday.
@maique here’s one I recorded in the 1900s. I saved all of these stories in text files, which is good, because the software I used in the ’90s is… not the same. I also printed them as gifts for the grandparents.
The child in this story was 3 and a half years old, and came to me with a rash on his abdomen:
“I need a band-aid for my five-tummy,” he said.
“Your five-tummy?”
“This is my forehead,” he said patiently, pointing just above his eyes. He pulled up his shirt again. “And this is my five-tummy.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhhh.”
He pointed to the crown of his head. “This is my one-head.” Then he pointed high on his chest. “This is my one-tummy.”
@annahavron I agree, other creative people as well. I know one brilliant fellow who views the educational system as a mechanism to remove that creativity.