Thursday, May 20, 2010

KidSpeak: Three Year Olds on Ikebana

You can never spend too much time observing and mentally recording the dialogue of others when you're a writer.

Today, I got to overhear this delightful conversation from two three-year old girls.

Girl #1: Take a vase.
Girl #2: Take a vase.
Girl #1: Put the [Play]dough on the bottom.
Girl #2: Put the dough on the bottom.
Girl #1: Stick in the flowers.  Like this.
Girl #2: (takes a blue glittery egg attached to floral wire) Stick in like this.
Girl #1: NOoooo!  Take a flower.  A flower! (Attempts to takes the egg.)
Wrestling match ensues.  Small attempts at slapping.  Girl #2 lays on top of egg.
Mother of Girl #1: Let me go find another egg.
Girl #1: (manages to wriggle blue egg out)  You want another egg?  A green egg?  (returns with green egg)
Girl #2: Thanks.  (sticks egg in vase, adds in some flowers)  Doesn't it look pretty?

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