Rayala Dialogues: Buzz, iPhone & Jose Rizal

LB watching Puss in Boots for the 7th time (only for a day!), I pulled up her left arm and struggled to smell her arm pit. 

LB: Nanaaaaay. (giggling and resisting) 
B: Smell kili-kili please.
LB: Okay.
B: (on the motion of doing it already when…) 
LB: Wait, smell kili-kili, buy me Buzz Lightyear. (sweetly grinning)
B: Ay, ayaw ko na.
LB: Okay, donut na lang. (with a convincing smile a la sales man)
B: Sure. 

And ayun, ni-boodle fight ko kili-kili niya, nakalimutan niyang humingi ng donut. Pero at least, marunong ng barter. 

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We recently had guests in the house and they have a 15-month-old clingy-baby-to-her-mommy. LB is a very makulit preschooler that the two cannot jive, obviously. It was a pain to scold her and somehow put the blame on her for all the baby’s crying bouts, but that’s what happened. On her room, I talked to her. 

B: What’s your problem ba, ha? Di ba I told you to be nice? (nagngangalit ang mala-tuna kong panga)
LB: I want to borrow the iPhone {kumare’s iPhone} (hikbi)
B: You didn’t borrow it, kinuha mo lang. You should have said “borrow please”.
LB: (sniffing, trying to ingest what I’m telling her)
B: What do you want to happen now? Stay ka dito sa room or downstairs and behave?
LB: I want to buy iPhone! Tell Tatay I want iPhone. Buy sa mall. (saying those while making ngalngal)
B: (I wanted to get more furious pero natatawa na ako) Agad-agad, ‘nak?
LB: What’s agad (pause) agad? (wiping her tears)

Haaay. My heart melted. Even if I told myself it was an ultimatum, it wasn’t. So the next day, I did my best to be cool with her. Did we still fight? Oh, of course! Won’t tell you how though. Like what they say, the rest was history. 

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Grocery-shopping with LB for her first school field trip (that's tomorrow na!), when she asked me where we will go. 

B: Enchanted Kingdom, Bahay ni Rizal…
LB: Bahay? House?
B: Opo.
LB: Who’s Rizal?
B: Our national hero. (kinakabahan na ‘ko sa pwede pang itanong, mahina ako sa HEKASI) 
LB: Like Tatay? He’s my hero!
B: Oh yes, like Tatay. (relieved) But Rizal is dead.
LB: (wondering) Is he pogi like Tatay?
B: (muntik akong lamunin ng lupa sa pagpigil kong tumawa but said this with affirmation) Tatay is more pogi, ‘nak. :)

Hoy Rayala, your daughter deserves a gift noh. Mantakin mo, ni-level sa’yo si Rizal? Boom! :p