When I picked Em up from school on Wednesday, one of the aides in the class informed me that Emily helped make the sandwhiches for lunch today. So in the car I was asking her about it. Here is our conversation...
J: Em, I heard you helped make lunch today.
E: Yup, I served the kids their fruit with my hands and the teacher said not to.
J: Yeah, you have to use a spoon, so what kind of sandwiches did you make?
E: Betunia.
J: You mean tuna fish?
E: NO! Betunia, you know, like we had that one time. Remember?
J: Yeah, we had tuna fish sandwhiches.
E: NO MOMMY! BETUNIA SANDWICHES!! NOT TUNA!
(At this point she is getting annoyed).
J: I'm sorry, Em, I'm not sure what a betunia sandwich is.
subject dropped, and actually we went around and around with that a lot longer. Later in the day our friend Leslie came over to watch them so I could run some fast errands, so I was telling her the betunia story. So she asked Emily, "what did it taste like?" Emily said, "like fish" so she said, "so it was tuna" emily: "yup, it was tuna." I couldn't believe it, I mention tuna and get the third degree for thinking betunia was tuna fish. I guess Leslie has the magic touch! At least we know for sure what it was because she still asks for betunia sandwiches.
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4 comments:
What is it with Em and the letter "b"? Betunia sandwiches, going to BBS (VBS), and "bemembering"! Too funny!
Funny thing... Michael used to call the VCR a VSR, to this day that is what we call it. And he would say Malute the volume, we still say that too! He is 22! sometimes our children have better names for ordinary things! Aunt Leslie
I think that I would like to have Em serve me a betunia sandwhich for lunch. It would be great fun to hear her little voice "Miss Jenn, would you like a betunia sandwhich?" OH ME OH MY, out of the mouths of babes!!
I did notice in your story, however, that you were saying "tuna FISH" and Leslie only said "tuna." I wonder if that made the difference! What a funny girl!
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