31. Tillie Tuesday. July 20, 2021

It’s just another Tillie Tuesday,

I wish it were a snooze day,

But it’s my news day,

And just another Tillie Tuesday.

Tillie, as we flip over puzzle pieces

Me: Some of these are hard because both sides are blue.

Tillie: Excuse me here. This side is turquoise.

Tillie, on telling the truth as I compliment her artwork

“Do you call all my good ones great? Well, you are my father.”

Tillie, on knowing her father is a story teller

Tillie: Daddy, what happened here?

Me: Well, there once was a seal…

(Raises her hand to stop me)

Tillie: Real life

Tillie, on delaying bedtime once again

(Tillie tries to start a game of hide and seek when it’s already well past her bedtime)

Us: No!

Tillie: What? Nobody likes to have fun around here?

Tillie, on hot summer day play with the garden hose

Tillie: Cold! Cold! Cold!

Me: What?

Tillie: It got into my armpit and my armpit is super sensitive to cold.

(Pause)

Tillie: Cold! Cold! Cold!

Me: What?

Tillie: It happened again.

Tillie, on “always be closing” (a sales practice)

“Oh, look, ice cream! —-And I have a headache from this heat!”

Tillie, apparently playing an archeologist cleaning up

“I got all the artifacts in the pool.”

Tillie, speaking of pools…

Me: How was their pool?

Tillie: Their deep end was even deeper than our deep end.

Me: Did you swim to the bottom?

Tillie: No. I didn’t even dare myself. I’m trying to stay alive, remember.

Tillie, as we play soccer

“I’m actually training you to be good like me.”

And, finally,

Tillie, on why she wins

“I may be little but I’m stronger than you think!”