All the baffling and perculiar stuff, my second eldest daughter has dumbfounded us with.
- Sophie, whom I class as quite intelligent and a bit of a philosophical thinker, pondered one day,
"If I were a tulip........what would I say?"
- Sophie @12yrs old
(Note from author: Funnily enough I have no answer for her, just, why sophie? why!?)
- Setting the scene - heavily pregnant on the loo after a shower as my 7 year old bursts in.
Sophie, "Mummy, you are amazing, you are fantastic, let me look at you, wow I didn't even know it was possible.......I'm going to tell ALL my friends at school!"
Me, (feeling quite proud, if a little nude,) "Thank you and what are you going to tell them?"
Sophie, "your bum covers the WHOLE of the toilet seat.
- Sophie aged 7yrs old
(Note from the author; may the ground open and swallow me up)