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Annie-isms.

Melissa Beene Ford/ Uncategorized

Ever since she was little, Annie has been the quickest-witted little kid I’ve ever been around. She’s always laughing, always happy, always a barrel of monkeys to be around, always saying the darndest things to make us laugh…

She’s famous for that time she called that kid at Jumpin’ Jacks a bald-head baby, for example.

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BEST FRIENDS.
Annie loves school and is quite attached to her teacher, Mrs. Bowie, and has positioned herself as Mrs. Bowie’s personal assistant. For real, since Annie has advanced past her grade level in reading, Mrs. Bowie has Annie go into the hall with groups of students and help them learn to read. And Annie THRIVES on her ‘teaching’ role. She comes home from school and spends the rest of her day playing school on her very own dry-erase board, teaching imaginary students and even taking them out onto the patio for PE.

I credit the fabulous Mrs. Bowie for that. Annie talks about her constantly and all the ways she helps Mrs. Bowie and even said, “Mrs. Bowie and I are pretty much best friends.”

Until one day, when a dejected Annie got in the car and said pitifully, “Mrs. Bowie already has a best friend.”

It was Annie’s saddest day ever.

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THE ELECTRONICS PARTY.
Annie luuuuuuuves to make fun of certain people who shall remain nameless who are, in her mind, on their computers and cell phones a lot. Even when we aren’t on there that much. Ahem. So my birthday is coming up, and I asked Annie what kind of birthday party I should have. She responded, “We’ll just have a Facebook and texting party and tell everybody, ‘BRING ALLLLLLLL YOUR ELECTRONICS {while making big sweeping gestures with her hands}, YOUR COMPUTERS, YOUR IPHONES, YOUR TABLETS, AND WE’LL FACEBOOK AND WE’LL TEXT ALLLLL NIGHT LONG…..’.”

What a total stinker. I tried not to laugh.

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THE PANTY PERSON.
I think I’ve mentioned before that Annie is obsessed with all things ‘bottom.’ Cracks. Poop. Toots. Underwear. It’s the funniest thing ever to her.

So on Monday nights, we go to Bible Study at Lane’s Chapel Methodist Church, and just outside the church parking lot is a billboard that scrolls through several advertisements, one of them being a woman in panties or a swimsuit bottom; I forget what she’s advertising… liposuction or something.

My kids were obsessed. “Do you think she wanted to be up there in only panties, mama?” they asked. I said yes, and gave them some answer about how some women feel bad about themselves and like to show off their bodies where everybody can see…

So now every Monday night, leaving Bible study, the first thing we talk about is… you guessed it… Not Bible study. Not Bible verses or how the Holy Spirit revealed himself to us this week. We talk about the Panty Person. It’s very exciting, with whooping and hollering, when the Panty Person ad scrolls around.

Thank goodness for Monday Night Bible Study.
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BRUTAL HONESTY.
Speaking of Monday night Bible study, it was cold last week. I wore my velour track suit.

That didn’t go over well with Annie.

“You were NOT stylish for church on Monday night, Mama,” she was kind enough to let me know. “Usually you’re all stylish… but not tonight.”

That’s my Annie. She has quite a way with words.
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This post is linked at Tiny Talk Tuesday.
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