are you curtailing your account right before *breaks down crying because there is no breakfast dessert* or is that just in my house?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
evie is going through a thing of calling stuff she likes "cute" or even "soo soooo cute." but yesterday she was in a bad mood and she didn't want me to watch tv and she said "this baseball game is NOT very CUTE."
also yesterday we took her on the train to go to the park and she said "daddy, look, a nail" and held up someone's clipped finger/toenail
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 June 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Lol I know adults who call things "not cute," I've been enjoying that expression lately! Evie's on a good path.
Lulu clearly has a bright future ahead of her.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 10 June 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny watching my daughter learn to try to lie, she's just so bad at it. have to remind myself to pretend to believe her, that way she'll never get better at it.
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
We developed a "trick" of saying "thank you" while taking something out of K's hand. K, now 15 months, learns quickly, and has started to say "thank you" while attempting to grab something from one of us.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
"there is no such thing as breakfast dessert" is a great sentence
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 June 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Abby [with a large toy stuck around her arms and torso]: Holy CRAP? Holy CRAP?Me [freeing her]: Did you just say "holy crap"?Abby: yeah.Me: Don't say that dear, that's not a nice thing to say.Abby: Oh my GOD? Oh my GOD? Oh my GOD? Oh my GOD?
― how's life, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
She's back to saying "holy crap", quietly under her breath now, and playing with a figure of Human Torch.
― how's life, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Hahaha love it!
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Saturday, 22 June 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
A week or so ago our 3 y/o, Henry, burst into prayer before we had lunch with a surprising degree of enthusiasm. The prayer was in no way imparted from me or PP.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Where do you think he got it?
― how's life, Monday, 24 June 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
My primary suspect is his daycare as it is associated with a Methodist church.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Same 3 y/o mocked me for the first time ever last night. He was super hungry before bed but I insisted it was "Too late for Hot dogs!". Not longer after I took him upstairs to put him to bed he spent a good two minutes bouncing on his bed and saying in the most mocking tone ever while imitating my voice. "ooooooo its too late for hot dogs! No hot dogs now. Its just tooo late!" etc etc. Our kids are such smartasses.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Nice!
― how's life, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
When I sing Wheels on the Bus to K now, each verse she will call out the thing that is on the bus. Things that ride our bus include:
ChairBottleWaterCheeseRed (the color)Hole
It's very difficult to figure out what some of these things *do* on a bus, especially when put on the spot
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
can you get away with, like 'the cheese on the bus goes cheese cheese cheese?' or would you get side-eye
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
'Red" !!
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, she'll accept pretty much any action from these inanimate objects, concepts, etc.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
"the red on the bus whispers 'kill kill kill'"
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
hahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
Many of these things also shake an egg in the "Shake Your Egg" song, as well as "egg" himself, and any person we have ever met.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
We were in a rush this morning so I told Evie we were going to break the world record for the fastest bath. After I bathed her and took her out, she wandered around looking confused and asked me "where's the smashed record?" She thought I meant a vinyl record.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
hahaha aw
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
BUT YOU SAID
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
That reminds me of Ramona Quimby and sit here for the present.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
White and yellow were on the bus this morning. Actually, it was the hebrew word for yellow, "Tsahov". "Tsahov on the bus?" I asked..."Yellow" she clarified.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I thought 'Sit here for the present' was from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. That was 1959, but the some of the Ramona Quimby books were published around then too, so don't know who had the idea first.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
K: Mama, utatte dame! ("Mama, don't sing!")P: Koyu-chan! That's not nice. Mama is a good singer, she can sing. Are you the boss?K: Bass?P: Boss. Is Koyuki the boss?K: Noooooooo.P: Is Papa the boss?K: Mama bass.P: Right. Mama is the boss.K: Mama bass. School bus, school bus.
― Plasmon, Saturday, 29 June 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
haha cute
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 June 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
"sometimes when mom's in a bad mood, you just have to walk away"
4 years old, people
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 July 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Kids are kids, they're like the stupid guys we see on chatroulettes (www.bazoocam.org)
― RRRRR, Thursday, 4 July 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
so true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
This morning K heard H say "hey sexy" to me when I walked into the room and started enthusiastically shouting "SEXY! SEXY!" -- kinda lol, kinda disturbing
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 July 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:13 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
AMAZING
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
i posted this on fb so sorry if you already saw it but evie's new thing is when she's really angry she yells COCK A DOODLE DOO
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, that's precious.
― how's life, Monday, 8 July 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
My wife apparently was singing "On Top Of Spaghetti" to my son in the car and he starting apparently moaning at the end "my poor poor meatball, my poor meatball". To add injury to the whole thing a short time later our dog actually did eat his meatball (which to be fair to her, he put on the floor) which caused a complete breakdown and him to throw himself on the ground kicking and screaming and cursing her.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
Not sure why I wrote apparently twice as though I do not believe this story hah.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
Toddler: Bat-man cock!Me: !Me: ...Me: oh, Bat-man CLOCK. CL-OCK.Toddler: Cock. Me: Clock. Batman clock. Toddler: Cock, cock, cock.
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
ha, yeah
that reminds me of
"Do you hear that? Mommy is vaccuming. Vaccum. Mommy is vaccuuming"
"Mommy fuckyou"
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Preach it, kiddo.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
xp for a while my son was seemingly convinced that fox was a plural so he kept talking about needing to get his "fock". Also kept referring to a bear as an "abutt" which with the "fock" resulted in a couple of exchanges I would have found mildly embarrassing had they occurred in public.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/9308135654_a093a79dcb_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
Those cursed tiny letters.
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Aw. Does she need glasses, maybe?
― schwantz, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
I think she means long words. Her sis needs glasses, but not for reading. Lulu is suddenly quite conscious of the fact that she can't really plough through a young-adult fiction book like Ava can, that she's still reading things that are intended for her age. Nothing wrong with that.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
As a kid, I always made the distinction between books with big words (like most books aimed for anyone nine and younger) and the ones with the tiny words (usually without even pictures!)
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's it! No pictures! At least those Roald Dahls have got Quentin Blake.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link