While making sugar-free oatmeal cookies with Grandma, Little Bug tasted some of the batter and then proclaimed, “That is delectable!”

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Bisa (my 80+ year old grandmother) arrived for dinner at my parents’ house one night. Little Bug excitedly ran to the door to greet her saying, “Bisa, come play with me in my room!” (She calls the room she naps in ‘her room’. It is upstairs.)

Bisa said, “Oh Bisa can’t walk up steps.”

Little Bug said, “I will help you Bisa! Come on!”

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We are replacing the carpet in the living room and putting hardwood in the hallway leading to the bedrooms. The man came to take measurements. As the man was measuring the hallway, Little Bug asked me, “Mommy, is he mean?”

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Little Bug was sitting at the kitchen table playing with Play-Doh while I was feeding Sweet Pea. She decided she was done with Play-Doh and said, “Mommy! Mommy!! Please get me down!” Pause. “If you don’t I will huff and puff and blow your house down!!”

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My mom was putting Little Bug to bed one night when she told Little Bug, “Goodnight! Sleep tight! Don’t let the skitters bite!”

Little Bug, already snuggled down in her crib ready to go to sleep, popped up immediately and said, “SKITTERS?!?! What Skitters??”

My mom had to explain to Little Bug that there were no “skitters” in her bedroom and that was just something that her Daddy used to tell her before going to bed and something that Grandma used to tell Little Bug’s Mommy.

Once Little Bug realized there were no skitters in her room, she settled back down and went to sleep.

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Little Bug said to her Daddy, “Open your eyes, big and round!” Then she said, “Oooh!! They’re kind of green or something!”

Then she said, “Open your mouth big and wide!” She looked in her Daddy’s mouth and said, “Oooh! You have some big teeth in there!”

- Elaine