January Torisms

“Mom, I need some tape,” Tori says as she’s holding a red and white soccer ball. Of course I’m curious so I ask her why. She answers, “because I want to make Baby Siah the Little Mushroom Guy from the driving game.” It takes me a moment but I realize what she wants to do… she was planning to tape the soccer ball to Siah’s head to make him look like Toad on Mario Cart. She thinks he is cute. See the picture... he has a red and white mushroom type head. She’s so cleaver. I wish I could say I let her try… but I didn’t. It sure would’ve been funny though. Secretly, I hope she tries and succeeds but I can’t in good conscience encourage that.

Mom, I need something to put in my panties to have a tail like Tigger. I offered her a ribbon which she refused and said, “I’m making something.” A moment later she shows up with a lego tail she made and placed proudly in her panties. Of course it fell out a few seconds later and broke apart. We had to come up with another solution. I offered to tie a scarf around her waist... she refused around her waist though and promptly stuck it into her panties. Um, not exactly what I was thinking but she was happy.

Not Tori’s ism but someone else’s … We were at the beach and this little girl of about 5 starts to play with Tori. A few minutes later some high school age girls in bikinis set up their towels behind us. The little girl looks up and says, "oh, hot chicks. My daddy loves hot chicks. I should go tell him." And she runs over to her family. I was shocked! It was funny and disturbing. Later that night at dinner Jeff and I are joking about it and we said something about hot guys on the beach… Tori starts to laugh and says, “silly Daddy, there weren’t hot guys on the beach, they had their sunscreen on.”

While watching the news a couple days after the inauguration- “Barack Obama is my favorite… Barack, rhymes with rock and she continues to say his name over an over.”