CONVERSATIONS WITH CHARLEY - PART III

The interesting interactions with my five year old granddaughter, Charley, never cease to amaze me. Here are a few more discussions & Charley-isms.

Charley & I (along with her other grandma) share the middle name, Ellen. She is learning that most people have a third name that isn't normally used. She uniquely calls it an "Ellen name" since that is her middle name. Sitting around the dinner table last month the following conversation took place.

Charley:  Lou, what is your Ellen name?

Lou:  John

Charley:  How old are you?

Lou:  How old do you think I am?

Charley:  Six? No, thirty.

Lou:  Thirty is closer than six, but I'm sixty-two.

Gaga:  No, you aren't. You're sixty-one.

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There is a leopard skin print comforter & sheets in our guest room which Darrin & Charley share on their visits to Sacramento. When they were visiting we had this conversation.

Charley:  Gaga, did you see my new book?

Gaga:  No, where is it?

Charley:  It's in my room.

Gaga:  Oh, in your room in Hayward. I'll have to see it in a few days.

Charley:  No, it's in my room! (Gaga still wasn't quite understanding she meant here.)  The one with the Cheetah polka dots!

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One day Charley & I were discussing playing with her identical twin friends who live in the same apartment complex. Their names are Maya & Jada. We always refer to them in that order.

Gaga:  We need to head down to the playground to meet Jada & Maya.

Charley:  No, Gaga! It's Maya & Jada, not Jada & Maya. That's not their names!

Gaga: Okay, you're right, Maya & Jada. I stand corrected.

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My father, who we all call Pop, had a couple of large unexpected expenses as well as a few expected ones recently. He ended up shelling out $3500 in less than a week! Fortunately, he has money to cover it. Darrin, Charley & I were eating dinner & touched on his finances.

Gaga:  Yeah, Pop got hit really hard last week!

Charley:  Who hit Pop?

Gaga:  No, sweetie, it is just an expression meaning things cost a lot.

Charley:  Is he hurt?

Darrin:  No, Charley, nobody hit Pop. He's fine.

I think we finally convinced her that Pop is indeed okay. No one hit him & it is just a way to say that he had to spend a lot of money.