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No Way, Jose!

I'm not sure why she latched on to this phrase in particular, but we hear it multiple times a day and it always makes me chuckle. Sometimes it's followed by sleepyhead which in Edenspeak sounds like PeePee head. So please don't be offended if you're on the receiving end of that one. I'd really like to come up with a snappy response; something in the vane of See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. If you have a suggestion let me know. You betcha, Juanita is the best I've come up with so far. Sometimes she'll yell No way, Jose! For no reason at all, like she did recently in the lobby at church when a program was going on in the sanctuary. She followed that by singing Ring Around the Rosy at the top of her lungs.

She also likes to reassure us Don't worry. The conversation usually goes something like this:

(Mom): Eden, it's time to go. Please come.

(Eden): I'm coming.  Don't worry.

But then she continues to do whatever it was she was doing and doesn't come.  So, I do worry! I guess it's her stall technique. But I'm on to her now.