Archive for September, 2008
Mom: I don’t know. What?
Son: Gold.
Mom: Oh, of course.
Son: And do you know what is the gold rule? It’s the most important rule on the earth.
Mom: Sure. I think I know it.
Son: It is to respect. Respect everyone.
Mom: Yes! Where did you learn that?
Son: My teachers at school.
So far, I like kindergarten!
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Tags: older son, sweetness and light
Son: Mom, in my whole life, I will never defy you.
Mom: (thinking about events that have already occured) Oh?
Son: Yes.
Mom: But…
Son: (Interrupting) Well, except when I grow up, we will have to defide.
Mom: Then you will defy me?
Son: Yes, we will have to defide.
Mom: (pause) What does defy mean?
Son: Defide?
Mom: Well, are you saying divide, [...]
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Tags: language, weird names
Caterpillar pee
As the owner of this blog, I can see a list of the ways that people reach the blog. Yesterday, someone got here by searching the term “caterpillar pee.” That cracks me up. The person was probably looking for the bald beast caterpillar post, which shows good taste, I love that post.
Happy weekend!
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Tags: animals, caterpillar
Coercive measures, revisited.
The toddler still doesn’t sleep well. We have tried just about everything we can think of to get him to sleep. Since he was born, he has only slept through the night on a handful of nights. Most nights have been like tonight, when he went to sleep around 7 p.m., slept till 9:00, and [...]
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Tags: coercive measures, sign language, toddler
Really?
Yes. They do not look like cows. They look like elephants.
Oh?
Yes. Actually they are forest elephants. They are a type of forest elephant.
Are they Asian or African elephants?
They are forest elephants.
Well, are their ears big or small?
Their ears are big like African elephants. But actually they are night deer.
Okay.
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Tags: animals, weird names
Mom, I like rainy days!
Do you know why? Because I can splash in puddles!!
Yeah, me too. :)
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Tags: older son, rain, sweetness and light, toddler
The sensitive plant
Today older son and I went on one of our favorite hikes, in a really nice park with a really nice botanical garden. For the middle of a day on a dreary Friday, the park was rather bustling. As we came around one corner, we saw another family with a little girl, probably three years [...]
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Tags: garden
This morning, older son asked me what this strange-looking object, a squeeze bulb, was. I explained that it’s for sucking boogers out of babies’ noses when they can’t do it themselves.
A couple minutes later, the toddler shrieks, and I turn around and hear older son saying, “Mom, he won’t let me suck boogers out [...]
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Tags: minions of Satan, older son, toddler
These are night deer.
They look like cows, but they are not. They are night deer. They come out in the night and in the day. They can swim too.
Their habitat is the forests. Around this table is all water. There is a crocodile that lives in the water. But sometimes it comes up on the land.
The deer need [...]
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Tags: animals, storytelling, weird names
Grandpa’s garden
Does anyone remember the “we are rich in rhizomes” post from the old blog? Well, today, the rhizomes are huge leafy plants as tall as my older son!
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Tags: garden
