January
While playing pretend, Julia gave me a glass of “water.”
After drinking it, I pretended to be ill.
Julia: “Oh! What’s wrong!”
Kaitlin: “I’m sick after drinking your old poisoned water.”
Julia: “What will make you better? Some milk?”
Kaitlin: “No. Only your kisses will make you better.”
Julia: “Oh, too bad. I don’t have any good kisses left to
give you.”
Kaitlin: “Why not? Where did your kisses go?”
Julia: “Into a fox’s mouth.”
Julia, poking herself with a red plastic Indian toy the
greeter gave her at Brownie’s Gourmet Burgers: “Look, it’s fuckering me!
Hahaha! It’s fuckering me!"
...
Aaron: “Let’s say poking, okay?”
Julia: “It’s poking me, it’s poking me!”
While looking at a photo of herself hugging Daisy at Disney World, Julia said, “This is me holding Daisy and Daisy holding me. But she’s
not real. There’s a person inside her. She’s not real. I don’t deserve this.”
Julia: "I decided that I’m not going to marry Canaan. I’m going to
marry Hudson."
Me: "Why are you going to marry Hudson?"
Julia: "Because he’s so nice!"
Julia: “Today at school I said I was going to marry Hudson!”
Me: “Who did you say that to?”
Julia: “Hudson.”
Me: “What did he say?”
Julia: “That he’s going to marry me!”
Dictating a birthday card for Joseph’s birthday
Julia: “Dear Joseph, I love you so much but I’m sorry, I’m
going to marry Hudson and not you.”
And... just to give you an idea of how games of Barbies tended to go at this age O_o ...
Overheard while Julia was playing Barbies: “Going naked to the bishop’s house?”
Julia, as Snow White, Belle’s mom: “You can’t go see that man anymore. You’re just a little girl. You’re only fourteen! I’m afraid you’ll get hurt.”
Julia, as Belle: “Yes, mother.”
Me: “How will she get hurt?”
Julia: “Sometimes when they’re together, he does bad things to her.”
Me: “Like what?”
Julia: “Chop her.”
Me: “Chop her?”
Julia: “Yeah, one time she chopped her finger on his hand.”
Julia then played the part of Belle and I was the Prince
Belle: "Hi my prince. I’m happy to see you."
Prince: "I thought you weren’t supposed to see me anymore. Didn’t your mom tell you not to?"
Belle: "Yes, but you’re my husband!"
Prince: "We can’t be married if you’re only fourteen!"
Belle: "Yes, we did! We got married four days ago."
Prince: "Okay…"
Belle: "I just want to be with you because you’re my husband."
Prince: "Well, I think we should obey your mom."
Belle: "Do you want to see my seal? You can hold him but you can’t keep him."
Belle goes to bed (Julia turns all the lights all off)
Julia: "She hears a booming in her head. Curly, the bad girl, says, ‘You’ll never be queen!!’"
Julia, as Curly, (singing in a deep voice): I wish the whole kingdom would be mine
Julia: "She’s a really bad girl. Belle has the booming in her head. Her mother goes to see what’s wrong. Belle is still in bed!"
Julia, as Snow White: "Belle, what’s wrong? I have to take you to the hospital"
Gets the car out
Julia: "They’re going to the hospital because Belle has something bad in her hair."
Julia, singing: "Something bad! Something really, really bad!"
Julia: "They got out of the car and then Belle fell on the street! Fell!"
Julia, as Snow White: "Honey, are you alright?"
Julia: "Then, she carried her into the hospital."
Julia, handing me a naked Ken doll: "Here you be the doctor."
Me, as the doctor: "What brings you in today?"
Julia, as Snow White: "I think there’s something bad in her head, like a bad dream or something!"
Doctor: "Is she doing better now?"
Snow White: "No, she’s not going to get better."
Doctor: "Well, let me listen to her with my stethoscope...I think she’ll get better."
Snow White: "No, she won’t!"
Doctor: "Okay, then she better stay in the hospital."
Snow White: "Can we give her medicine and take her home?"
Doctor: "No, she better stay here."
Snow White: "Will she be here for Christmas?"
Doctor: "I’m afraid so."
Snow White: "Oh no! Okay, well… can we dance?"
Naked Doctor Ken and Snow White dance while Belle continues to lie on the ironing board
Playing Barbies. Julia was Belle, Aaron was Belle’s small
blonde daughter.
Belle: “You need to get rid of him.”
Daughter: “My dad?”
Belle: “Yes.”
Daughter: “But I love him.”
Belle: “You’re my daughter. You need to do what I say.”
Daughter: “I’m his daughter, too.”
Belle: “I need you to kill him.”
Daughter: “What? I don’t want to do that!”
Belle: “Okay, fine. You can watch TV. I’ll find someone else
to kill him.”
Daughter: “Okay, I’ll go talk to him.”
Daughter tells Prince Phillip the plan and they escape in
the Barbie car.
February
Me: “Julia has lost so much weight from being sick. She
seriously looks cachectic!”
Aaron: “I’m happy to see you eating so much tonight, Julia!
It will help you get your strength back. If you were an adult, we would have
sent you to a SNF [Skilled Nursing Facility].”
Me: “No, we wouldn’t!”
Aaron: “You’re right. We would have discharged home with
Ensure.”
Julia, getting ready for the Disney princess wedding: “It’s
time to get married! Where’s the priest? Actually, he’s a deacon because he’s
married.”
Julia to Mary-Claire: "I'm trying to
explain this to you like an adult"
Julia, frustrated when Mary-Claire is
uncooperative: "I'm serious, Mary-Claire, I'm really serious"
Julia, playing make believe, dictated
this invitation to her sleepover to my mom.
“On the 4th Street, on the
West side, there is a house deep in the snow. Inside the house is hot
chocolate. By the hot chocolate is a big pillow and beds and a blanket. Come
for a sleepover. Bring pajamas and your favorite game and a sleeping bag. Meet
me there. It’ll be fun. Bring dominoes. – Theresa”
March
Me: “Where are my keys? Where are my keys???
Julia: “Call for St. Nicholas!
Me: "You mean St. Anthony?"
Julia: "Yeah."
Me: "Oh, there they are."
Julia: "See! I told ya!"
To Aaron, on the phone, in the morning as he was headed home
from his ICU night shift:
Julia: “It’s impressive that you take care of sick kids at
the hospital.”
Listening to the song, “I Wanna Be Like You” from The Jungle
Book
Julia, super amused: “That bad guy wants to be like a little
kid!I Isn’t that funny, mommy? That a bad
guy wants to be like a little kid?!?”
Me, at church: "Go ahead and genuflect, Julia."
Julia: "I’m a princess so I’ll curtsey"
