Still here…

Yep, I’m still blogging.  Impressed, aren’t you?  Yeah, me neither.

Haven’t posted a lot of ‘Bradenisms’ lately, so here’s your fix.  Grandpa got Braden hooked on Scooby Doo and now it’s a staple in our house.  He tries to figure out who the villain is (Braden, not Grandpa… Grandpa just looks for puns and wise cracks).  Last week we were watching a ‘new’ episode and Braden said “Dad, I’m the smartest person in this family and I think that she’s the bad guy.”  And while you might argue the smartest person in the family might not call a woman a bad guy, Braden stuck to his guns.

Emma has her own version of the Bradenism.  Emmaism?  Nah, that’s not quite right.  Anyway, she has recently started using the phrase “Watch this!” quite often.  And by quite often, I mean approximately 237 times every 2 minutes.  It is also often followed by the phrase “Ow!”, but that’s not really the point here.  Braden used to do the same thing, but you could usually just get passed it by saying “Ok” or “wow” without having to really look.  With Emma you kind of have to give her your attention for two reasons:  Quite often she’s doing something like climbing the TV or the outside of the banister or shaving the cat.  Ok, shaving the cat hasn’t happened, but you get the point.  The other reason… she calls you on it.  Yep:

Emma: “Daddy, watch this!  Daddy, watch this!  Are you wachin’?”

Daddy: “Yep, I’m watching” (as I’m still reading the paper)

Emma: “No you’re not!  Daddy, watch this!  Are you watchin’?”

Daddy:  “Ok, I’m watching.”

Emma (or Braden or the cat): “Ouch!”

Fun stuff.  Tiring, but fun.