Amanda-isms

My beautiful daughter, Amanda, is an excellent and dedicated student with straight A's. However, this blond child will sometimes say the dumbest things. So much that I have started keep a list of what I call "Amanda isms". To start off the year on a laughing note, I thought I would share some of these with you.

• In 2005 at the age of 12 years old, as we were preparing for a family vacation to Hawaii, Amanda asked, "Are we gonna fly or drive?"
• This past Christmas Eve at the age of 15, we were discussing the Christmas game of capitals and states. Amanda said, "There must be a lot of Mexicans in Iowa since the capital is Des`moines." (You had to hear the spanish accent she put on that word)
• During the same discussion above, one of the presents had Juneau which is the capital of Alaska. Amanda says with attitude, "Alaska isn't even in the US, why did you pick that one?"
• In September 2008, we went to watch a Texas Tech/Red Raider football game. One of the star players last name is Crabtree. We went to a shop to buy a few T-shirts and there was a big inflatable crab over the doorway and Amanda says, "I didn't know they were the Texas Tech Crabs!" (This one was enough to keep us laughing all weekend long!)

I will continue to share these bone head statements with you throughout the year (I get several a month). We love them because she always makes us laugh, especially since she is so serious about it. I can't wait to see what she comes up with during our 24 hr car ride to Florida this summer. In her defence, she really is a smart girl, her mouth just works faster than her brain.