Some Things That Made Me Smile

Recently heard falling from Miro's mouth...

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We were at the beach, when Miro said:

"Look at the colour of the water Mummy! The colour is very beautiful!"

I replied:

"It is beautiful. Would you like to live by the beach Miro?"

"Oh yes," Miro replied. "But how will we get our house here?"

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Miro wandered into the kitchen after eating fish fingers for dinner, a mixed expression on his face.

"How do they get fish fingers Mummy?" he asked, making a sawing motion on his own fingers.

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Miro had decided that he desperately wanted to talk to his cousin Bennett, and had been mentioning him for two days. Finally I said "Do you want to call him?"

"Oh yes!" said Miro.

So I dialled the number, found Bennett and passed over the phone.

"Bennett!" I heard Miro exclaiming on the phone as I walked away. "I've been worried about you!"

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Miro and I were talking about something where I mentioned that I had been a little girl once, and was now a woman, and would one day be an old woman.

Miro doesn't like to hear about growing up into an old person, and a look of panic crossed his face. He grabbed my cheeks between his two hands and kissed me and said:

"Don't grow into an old lady Mummy! I love you just the way you are."