I’ve always seen flashes of me or my sisters (and definitely goofy Uncle Joey) in my girls, but sometimes one or another of my siblings’ personalities will pop out so much I wonder if the girls are even mine.
For instance. The girls’ stepmom told me about how Bee was helping her assemble the basket of wedding favors a few weeks ago. Bee put in the bubbles, the bookmark, and the wedding mints, then squished them all to once side. “Look!” Bee exclaimed, “there’s room for a cheesestick right here!” Cheese would be an awesome wedding favor, if you ask me. And also if you ask Auntie Kim – it’s her favorite food group. She might even like cheese more than me! (Blasphemy!)
Bee’s similar fascination with cheese is why I didn’t think it odd when she kept asking for the Cheesestick Song when we were in the car. It wasn’t until the song, “Like a G6″ came on (and was quickly shut off when I heard the lyrics) that Bee thought the words were “…like a cheesestick, like a cheesestick.” Quite the improvement!
And then, my favorite Bee-is-really-Auntie-Kim’s-child story: We had quite the outburst of storms on Saturday afternoon, including three or four tornado warnings. During the first tornado warning, the television weather dude (technical term) said the tornado was forming right overhead our neighborhood, so I sent the girls to get their sneakers and head for my closet. I grabbed a few essentials (including our weather radio) and headed in there as well. The sirens went off, the weather radio went off a few times, and while in the closet we called Auntie Kim – a girl who appreciates a good tornado warning. It wasn’t until 15 minutes later when the danger had passed and we were evacuating the closet that Bee announced, “I brought extra socks!” My chin dropped – it was so classic Kim. “Did you not put socks on?” I asked her, thinking she had brought them but hadn’t used them. Nope – they were, in fact, extra socks. Go ahead and guess what one thing Auntie Kim might like more than cheese and second only to highly organized lists? Yep: socks. Clean, dry socks. She has a pair in her sock glove box in her car and an emergency pair in her purse. And we’ve never talked about it with Bee, so it was pure magic that she bought into the Sock Coda.
That kiddo cracks me up.
Tags: family, Quote of the day
October 27, 2010 at 7:15 am |
That’s crazy! Although by your rationale, Punkin could be Kim’s daughter too because that girl loves some cheese! The other day she said “What if I was allergic to cheese?” and I told her I thought the world would end if she were! LOL!
(hope things are going better over your way!)
October 27, 2010 at 7:56 am |
Love it!! I love that she wanted to put cheese in the wedding favors and that she took extra socks. Emma packed socks and her favorite stuffy when she was running away from home when she was three. She thought she was all set.
I have to ask – why do you make them put on their shoes?
October 27, 2010 at 10:24 am |
Oh my gosh, I love those stories. I think cheese would be a wonderful wedding favor! The tornado warnings sound very scary, but it’s a good thing Bee was prepared with extra socks!
October 27, 2010 at 10:58 pm |
every time i go out, no matter who im with, G6 gets blasted. Im loving the new lyrics, and im sure “raffie” will refuse to sing it any other way now too =]
October 28, 2010 at 7:23 am |
new favourite song. cheese sticks.
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