Robyn-isms

Note: If I tried to record these conversations in full Robyn-dialect, you’d never be able to comprehend the meaning of them without translation.  I’ve included some of the best pronunciation gems and you’ll have to take my word for it that they are even more humorous in the “original”.

Robyn tends to wake up earlier in the morning than the other children.  She often finds her way downstairs to where I am working.  Because she wants something to eat and suspects that I will make her wait to have breakfast with everyone else, she’s taken to saying that she has a “tummy ache.”  The other day she said “I have three tummy ache-iz” (using the –es plural I’ve been talking to the big kids about during school time).  This afternoon after naptime, we had this conversation:

Robyn: I have ten bad tummy ache-iz and one good tummy ache.
Mama: Oh, why is it a good tummy ache?
Robyn: Because I think it will go away when I get something to eat.

This evening at bedtime, I was reminded how much I adore the literal mind of a three year old.  Robyn was listing to a CD of Bible verse songs after she had gotten in her bed.  One of the songs says “When I am afraid I will trust in you …”

Robyn: The song says “When you are afraid you will trust in me.”
Mama:  Oh, yes.  Who will you trust in when you are afraid?
Robyn: The Yord!
Mama: That’s right.
Robyn: God is ev-we-yare!
Mama: That’s right!  He is even with you right now, here in your bed!  So, if you have a bad dream in the night and you wake up scared, you can call on the Lord!
Robyn: Yea, so if I have daddy long legs in my bed [a common nightmare theme for Robyn] I can call to the Lord!
Mama: That’s right!
Robyn: Right now, the Lord is right here with me.  But some times he goes away.  And that is why you have to call him – so that he will come back.
Mama: [trying to stifle a chuckle] Well, no, actually, God never leaves.  He’s always with you.  When we say “Call on the Lord” it doesn’t mean that he has gone away and we need him to come back.  It just means that we want to talk to him so that he can comfort our hearts.
Robyn: Yes, the Lord can comfort my heart.  My heart is right here [puts hand on chest].  But not my tummy.  The Lord does not comfort my tummy.  Mama, I have three tummy ache-iz …

Seriously, I do feed my kids.  I promise.