I can’t seem to write this style of post quickly enough, especially as Florence never stops talking (which is a GREAT thing)! She was an early and non stop chatterbox, much like I was as a child (although I think I made the family record as I started speaking at 6 months old) and I’ve furiously tried to keep a record of the funniest things she’s uttered since then!
Florence really is an undeniably hilarious, and often knowingly so, in fact, mostly, knowingly so, funny little girl.
I just love how cheeky, intelligent and thoughtful she is, too generous in fact, especially when she tries to force me to eat when I’m already full! A feeder, Florence is!
Below are a few comments she’s made recently, and as ever, I like to document here as this is my family archive first, business second, and I know, as with my older boys, that I will reflect on these posts in the future as she continues to grow up and surprise me with her observations and musings.
Over to Flo!
BBC Radio 4 is my go-to in the car with Classic FM a close second (a great hack for those of you wanting to immediately calm or even lull overtired children to sleep) and upon hearing ‘the Prime Minister’ being mentioned Florence perked up and said, ‘You interviewed the Prime Minister’. She doesn’t know who the Prime Minister is or what it even means to be a PM but she knows I interviewed Sir Keir Starmer because she’s heard me discuss it (although not very often to be honest so I was suprised to hear her reference it despite the fact it was a career highlight). Come to think of it, I’m not sure she even knows what interviewing means either but she said it all in context and is a clever little sausage!
When I asked if she was going back to her own bed the other night as she has been sleeping in ours whilst renovations were under way, she replied, ‘I can’t because the mens have been painting in my room’! ‘The mens’ cracked me up!
Think she’s become a little too comfortable in our Queen size bed to be honest but I’m sick of being kicked in the stomach, thank you very much so a return to her room is imminent!
When I asked Florence the name of one of her teachers at pre-school that I’d forgotten (in my defense, and her’s as she couldn’t remember either, there are many members of staff there), she simply said to me, “Google it” bahahaha!
On passing the Everyman cinema in Harrogate city centre, she reminded me that the cinema was hers and not for boys (aka her brothers)! She has become increasingly competitive with them for my time and now even protective over certain spaces she likes to visit with just me! Poor boys!
On rifling through my make up bag which she treats like her art box of paints, crayons and coloured pencils she cooed, “Ooh I like this red lipstick, it would be good for Halloween”…Erm!!!
When I returned from London recently, she asked me, “Did you go on TV” because to her London is synonymous with my London trips. On that occassion, I was there for meetings though!
When her teacher commented, ‘Florence is great at yoga’ (the lucky ducks do yoga at pre school) to me the other day, Florence denied it was her and said, ‘She was meaning the other Florence (there is another Florences in her class) She was confused’. She wasn’t but it was smart (and humble) of her to say so!
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