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iv> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="b1e1">Here are the last two weeks of “Pull Quotes” of a 4 Year Old:</h1><h2 id="d3d2">Monday, Jan 29</h2><p id="c356" type="7">“If you do like this, it looks like you’re a beautiful bunny.”</p><h2 id="f7d6">Tuesday, Jan 30</h2><p id="cfee" type="7">“Daddy, did you know that birds poop on snow. Yeah, so you don’t eat the snow.”</p><h2 id="bf3a">Wednesday, Jan 31</h2><p id="bbd2" type="7">“I was walking away from my dream.”</p><h2 id="dbc6">Thursday, Feb 1</h2><p id="b29a" type="7">(explaining her drawing) “This is me in a hot air balloon. I’m safe. I don’t need anybody.”</p><h2 id="4169">Friday, Feb 2</h2><p id="72bc" type="7">Daddy: Is it the lava monster Te Kā? Daughter: No it’s name is… Two-feet-ti.</p><h2 id="d7f0">Saturday, Feb 3</h2><p id="324f" type="7">“Like a patterun” (pattern)</p><h2 id="a246">Sunday, Feb 4</h2><p id="613d" type="7">“You can pee on top of my pee.”</p><figure id="4033"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*zC5RiJtApIYgaln8c2790w.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><h2 id="ee92">Monday, Feb 5</h2><p id="2973" type="7">“This one really hurts and when you kiss it, it makes it worse.”</p><h2 id="a906">Tuesday, Feb 6</h2><p id="e81f" type="7">“Tomorrow the snowman is gonna have a cold, so he can’t go anywhere.”</p><h2 id="7f56">Wednesday, Feb 7</h2><p id="c4ef" type="7">“I can do all of this stuff with one hand.”</p><h2 id="1cd6">Thursday, Feb 8</h2><p id="304b" type="7">“If you need any help, I’ll be right over here.”</p><h2 id="f4c5">Friday, Feb 9</h2><p id="0cca" type="7">Daughter: (reading mommy’s sweater) W-e-e-k-e-n-d, what does that spells? Mommy: Weekend.</p><h2 id="9b80">Saturday, Feb 10</h2><p id="73c5" type="7">Domhnall Gleeson in Peter Rabbit: It wasn’t a nightmare! Daughter: Watch something on the iPad?</p><h2 id="aef2">Sunday, Feb 11</h2><p id="bb0f" type="7">“Mommy, thank you for helping me make Valentimes cards for my friends.”</p><h1 id="adea">Closing thoughts on the last two weeks:</h1><p id="ea16">Being her father makes me proud every day. When I scroll back through photos, or Facebook shows me pictures of her from years ago on this day, or a memory resurfaces as we drive down a road we did when she was younger, I <a href="https://byrslf.co/love-being-ab24932af427">love being</a> there. And I obviously cherish every moment we share, every word I capture. It’s why when I accidentally deleted the note with the silly things she said over the last two weeks, I was beside myself, I got angry at myself and even cried.</p><p id="4822">It felt like I had lost little pieces of memories with her. And sure, I obviously lived in those moments with her and was present for her, but something about writing these words of hers down is important to me. I’m bearing witness to the beginnings of her journey. I’m documenting the love, the fun, the little moments she, her mommy and me share. I’m capturing memories like fireflies in jars. Watching them shine for a while and then letting them go back into the world. Whatever world it is she creates.</p><p id="2210">We’ll be back up and running again with new quotes in two weeks! (<i>Emphasis on “backup” </i>😳😭🙏!!)</p><h2 id="eb03">If you’re happy and you know it, and you really wanna show it… 👏🏽</h2><p id="1eae"><b><i>For bonus quotes, <a href="https://readmedium.com/pull-quotes-of-a-4-year-old-dc48d041ce">Subscribe to the series</a> (now available on desktop too!):</i></b></p><div id="0fe0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/pull-quotes-of-a-4-year-old-dc48d041ce"> <div>

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An Active Imagination

“Pull Quotes” of a 4 Year Old: Weeks 5-6

Editor’s note: This is a little late because, when transferring two weeks’ worth of quotes from my phone to my laptop, I accidentally hit a wrong button and LOST ALL OF THE QUOTES! 😳 Needless to say, Daddy was a little upset. 😭 (I know, I still have the memories. But well, I write these down because MY memory is notsogood, so…) Thankfully, after exhausting every tech (and moral) support I could find, I bit the bullet and did a restore from an iCloud backup and… 🙏 by the power of Steve Jobs & co... the note and all the quotes were back! ::big sigh::

Whether it is making up names for her stuffed animals, drawing, improvising song lyrics or simply recounting her dreams, my daughter comes up with wildly amazing and imaginative things. Dragons, ponies, unicorns, puppies, mermaids and plenty other underwater or mythical creatures report for duty in her mind. (Far more fantastical than any fiction her daddy has written.)

It boggles my mind to remember when she first started making sounds, then making words and now she’s making worlds. I am really happy she lets me be a part of them sometimes, even if it means carrying her on my back while I go crawling across the floor like a polar bear.

In case you missed it, catch up with the first two episodes of “Pull Quotes,” read A Personality: (Weeks 1-2) & A Flair for the Dramatic: (Weeks 3-4).

Here are the last two weeks of “Pull Quotes” of a 4 Year Old:

Monday, Jan 29

“If you do like this, it looks like you’re a beautiful bunny.”

Tuesday, Jan 30

“Daddy, did you know that birds poop on snow. Yeah, so you don’t eat the snow.”

Wednesday, Jan 31

“I was walking away from my dream.”

Thursday, Feb 1

(explaining her drawing) “This is me in a hot air balloon. I’m safe. I don’t need anybody.”

Friday, Feb 2

Daddy: Is it the lava monster Te Kā? Daughter: No it’s name is… Two-feet-ti.

Saturday, Feb 3

“Like a patterun” (pattern)

Sunday, Feb 4

“You can pee on top of my pee.”

Monday, Feb 5

“This one really hurts and when you kiss it, it makes it worse.”

Tuesday, Feb 6

“Tomorrow the snowman is gonna have a cold, so he can’t go anywhere.”

Wednesday, Feb 7

“I can do all of this stuff with one hand.”

Thursday, Feb 8

“If you need any help, I’ll be right over here.”

Friday, Feb 9

Daughter: (reading mommy’s sweater) W-e-e-k-e-n-d, what does that spells? Mommy: Weekend.

Saturday, Feb 10

Domhnall Gleeson in Peter Rabbit: It wasn’t a nightmare! Daughter: Watch something on the iPad?

Sunday, Feb 11

“Mommy, thank you for helping me make Valentimes cards for my friends.”

Closing thoughts on the last two weeks:

Being her father makes me proud every day. When I scroll back through photos, or Facebook shows me pictures of her from years ago on this day, or a memory resurfaces as we drive down a road we did when she was younger, I love being there. And I obviously cherish every moment we share, every word I capture. It’s why when I accidentally deleted the note with the silly things she said over the last two weeks, I was beside myself, I got angry at myself and even cried.

It felt like I had lost little pieces of memories with her. And sure, I obviously lived in those moments with her and was present for her, but something about writing these words of hers down is important to me. I’m bearing witness to the beginnings of her journey. I’m documenting the love, the fun, the little moments she, her mommy and me share. I’m capturing memories like fireflies in jars. Watching them shine for a while and then letting them go back into the world. Whatever world it is she creates.

We’ll be back up and running again with new quotes in two weeks! (Emphasis on “backup” 😳😭🙏!!)

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really wanna show it… 👏🏽

For bonus quotes, Subscribe to the series (now available on desktop too!):

Editor’s post-script: Read the next in this series below:
A Growing Independence

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