I’m Getting To That Part

Posted: April 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Pop Culture | 10 Comments »

Big baseball series coming up … along with what may be some very exciting breaking news. But first, a quick family story.

My wife and I sometimes have mild and amusing arguments about our youngest daughter Katie — specifically, which one of us she resembles. These are amusing because each of us would like to believe that Katie resembles the other. This is not to say that Katie is anything less than perfect — she is sweet, smart, funny, caring, all the things a Dad would say. She is tied for the most awesome 4-year-old in the entire world. But it’s fair to say that she’s a character.

Take the other day. The girls were playing, and suddenly we hear the 7-year-old Elizabeth crying, and it turns out that somehow Katie had pinched her with a one of those clips you put on top of potato chip bags to keep them fresh. And so I did my best Mike Brady impression, took Katie outside, sat her down and asked: What happened?

And this is what she said: “OK, well, we were playing bears. And Elizabeth was the mama bear. And I was the baby bear. We were going to be bees, but bees sting, and I didn’t want to play a stinging game. So we were going to be bears, and there were going to be bees in the game because of the honey, and we wanted to get honey but I couldn’t get honey because I was supposed to be tied up, and Elizabeth wasn’t tied up so she could get honey. And then I was trying to reach for the honey …”

At this point, I said something like: “Um, I’m asking ‘Why did you pinch Elizabeth?’”

And she looked over at me — glared, really — and said with purpose in her voice: “I’m getting to that part.”

Tough for me to argue after that one that Katie isn’t like me.

10 Comments on “I’m Getting To That Part”

  1. 1: David Pinto said at 7:15 am on April 27th, 2009:

    I had a moment like that a couple of years ago. My daughter, my best friend and I were driving to Pittsburgh to see a game, and after couple of hours my friend noticed my daughter did the same type of jokes I did. Funny and scary at the same time.

  2. 2: mike said at 7:16 am on April 27th, 2009:

    Um … tied with mine, right?

  3. 3: Topics about Australia-places | I’m Getting To That Part said at 7:59 am on April 27th, 2009:

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  4. 4: Mark W. said at 8:50 am on April 27th, 2009:

    I’m hoping you are getting to the part where we here if you went to see Louis CK while in Cletown…

  5. 5: Red said at 9:37 am on April 27th, 2009:

    I’m hoping for a Greinke SI cover and story by Joe!

    I think Katie should be forced to start a blog. Since you and Margo both have blogs, you could post a poll question to determine who she is like. Surely, your brilliant readers would be able to tell.

  6. 6: Curtis said at 9:47 am on April 27th, 2009:

    Never interrupt a good story with annoying questions.

  7. 7: Damon Rutherford said at 9:54 am on April 27th, 2009:

    That’s a great bit, Joe. However … why did Katie pinch Elizabeth!?

  8. 8: Peanut said at 10:07 am on April 27th, 2009:

    My friend’s five-year-old son Kurt hit his three-year-old sister Sara. When dad asked why he hit her, he said “Kara (five-year-old neighbor girl) hit me, and I couldn’t hit a girl, so I hit Sara.”

  9. 9: MarkIDX said at 10:56 am on April 27th, 2009:

    I have determined that it would be easy enough to do the ‘funny kid’ blog if I really wanted to; Art Linkletter wasn’t just talking off the top of his head, you know.

    That said, I’m really glad Joe is diversified enough to do Funny Kid Blog and Banny Log and all sorts of research on pitch counts and all the myriad topics he brings us.

    And BTW — potato chips. mmmmmmmmm…..

  10. 10: Kyle Litke said at 6:23 pm on April 27th, 2009:

    Am I correct in assuming that she was attempting to use the clip as a “bee sting”?

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