Martannasmimi’s Weblog

A few weeks ago Marta called and left a message to “call me Mimi as soon as you get home”.  I love hearing her voice on my answering machine and I keep her messages to hear her voice when…I just need to hear her voice.

When I called she answered Tere  and I said “hi Marta it’s your Mimi’ and she started talking about the snow and that they had made a snow man and many other little girl chit chat things. After awhile I asked to speak to her father, who she calls Justin most of the time.  I have a difficult time hearing her call him that for some reason.  Perhaps because  it’s just not done here.  I said to Marta  “will you tell your Daddy that I want to speak to him”?  She said okay I will go get him, and then I said put the phone down,  but don’t hang it up,  she said  “okay Mimi”I will” .  I repeated it again…“now don’t hang the phone up”she said okay again.   The phone cluncked as she droped it and off she went to get her father.  She was back in a second and picked up the phone and said

…”Ya know Mimi I’m a girl,  and girls we can do two things”.

I said yes you are and I know that you can and I was laughing so hard.

There was a moment last summer when we were getting ready for a summer pool party here.  There was much to be done and neither Justin or his father can multi task very well.  In a moment of frustration I said  to her “your Papa and your father cannot do more than one thing at a time…..you are lucky you are a girl Marta,  girls can do more than one thing at a time.

She remembered that moment because she’s a girl….. and a very smart one too!