2.28.2016

Melting

Big sis: I'm sorry, Care Bear.
Little sis: Hug?
Big sis: She forgives me!
Little sis: Hug!

2.04.2016

Victualed

Kid 2: Summer soup! Summer soup!

I looked up to see her folded in half with her feet and forehead on the floor.

Me: Somersault?
Kid 2: Oh, summer SALT. Help somersault!

1.16.2016

Buoyant

Kid 1 is explaining an imaginary event in the past that she also claims will be occuring in the future.

T.G.: Are we in a temporal paradox?
Kid 1: No, we're in a tugboat. A really big tugboat.

1.14.2016

Technicality

Me: Kid 1, don't call your sister names.
Kid 1: Can I call her [her name]?
Me: Yes, you may call her her own name.
Kid 1: [Kid 2]. [Kid 2]. [Kid 2]. [KID 2]!
Kid 2: NOOOOOOOO!

12.19.2015

Conversational

[An 18-month-old, Kid 2, walks into the kitchen where her mother is doing some work, including slicing a block of cheese.]

Kid 2: Tee! Tee! Tee! (Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!)
[Mother hands Kid 2 a slice of cheese.]
Kid 2: Tinks! (Thanks!) Bye-bye-bye-bye.
[Exit.]


12.15.2015

There's always next year

Scene: It's Sunday night, and the family is discussing football at the dinner table.

Kiddo: Bengals and Cardinals are my favorite teams.
Mom: Pampa will be happy to hear that. But what about the Vikings?
Dad: Do you like the Vikings?
Kiddo, apologetically: I don't like Vikings. They don't... They don't really do touchdowns.

12.14.2015

Obvious

Kid 1 is playing outside with her friends after church.

Kiddo: I'M IN THE TREE. I'M INNNNNN THE TREEEEEE!
Friend: That's not how you play hide and seek.

12.11.2015

Congruent

Kid 1 has composed two songs, "Go to Sleep" and "Christmas."

"Go to Sleep" is a lullaby for her sister and is sung to the famous tune known as Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. It goes:
A, B, C, D,
Go to sleep!
"Christmas" is described as her favorite Christmas song and has the same melody.
A, B, C, D,
Christmas hat!

12.04.2015

Software bugs

Kid 1 had three volume settings: Normal, Yelling, and Shrieking. (She didn't get it from me. I'm blaming dad's mom's branch of the family [you know who you are].) Unfortunately, the Normal setting has a funny quirk where, after .5-2 seconds, it reverts to one of the other two settings at random.

12.03.2015

You might live with a classicist if...

...it's Christmastime and you're a little miffed at Bing Crosby and Andrea Bocelli for pronouncing "Venite adoremus" wrong.