haaa
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
A, 4, about her nearly one year old sister: "Can we die her? Come on do it now! She's a bad baby."
This was largely in jest. Couldn't decide whether or not to tell her "it's 'kill', not 'die'".
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
is she a bad baby
― silby, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
iyo
This was entirely a case of projection.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
I had a “fake-out” one of these last night... after I scooped myself a bowl of ice cream in his presence (maybe a jerk move), and told him, No, you already had a donut today, and also your after-dinner snack, he said:“Hmm. I can’t really argue with that, but I feel like I should.”I laughed out loud; then he revealed it’s a line from Bone (a graphic novel he’s read four times). Guess if the kid’s old enough to be quoting things, he’s getting too old to fall into the “darndest things” category.
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Monday, 4 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
...and yet:“AAA Insurance? Is that some kind of battery insurance?”
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Monday, 11 May 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
K (8) has been reading and talking about historical figures a lot, and as a result E (4) now regularly refers to "Susan Big Anthony"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Hahaha
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 May 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
At dinner 3yr 2 mo old Opal said she had a “creepy dream where a white flower with a white jacket walked up to her and pulled stinky cheese out of its pocket and threw it at her”. She reiterated that it was not a nightmare but it was creepy. I’ve never heard her say creepy before. I also don’t totally believe her because we were just talking about stinky cheese so I think she either made up the whole thing or just embellished her dream. She’s been seriously stalling bedtime for a few months now, either screaming fuss fights or occasionally just silly chatter and questions. Tonight she called me back into her room and said “krystoff (frozen), I have a question. Where do baby bees come from?” I said they come from their mommies and daddies. She said “but where do they come out of?” I said I think bees have eggs. She said “oh. I didn’t know that. Like there are dinosaur eggs and bird eggs and bee eggs. I didn’t know about that.” I said I think so, now get some rest so you’ll be ready for the coronation (frozen again) and she said “Maybe in the morning we can look it up.” I said yes now get some sleep Anna (guess).
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
My 3yr 2mo old is currently calling avocado “water-cado,” because it’s “aguacate” in Spanish (which her g’ma speaks around the house).
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
I miss when our daughter loved all things Frozen.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 06:45 (three years ago) link
This has been blowing my mind:
“Dad, I made you a Father’s Day card. On the inside I drew you being shocked because the card is so beautiful.”
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/97977426_10163525912230304_3870902707891994624_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=4Phf1GeXHu4AX_EQtTE&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=90871b3cf97a474e8b8758fd0533419e&oe=5EEFDFD5 https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/100821885_10163525912275304_1731597235969327104_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=CjfvNXOyQ-sAX_12JVj&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=7363c35531e7bbdbb4ef9f43448fd4c5&oe=5EEFA619
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
luv it!
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
that is A++++
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
Legendary
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
haaaa
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
Yikes!
― DJI, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
When is Father's Day?
― pplains, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
You have a karate class tomorrow —“No no no no no, conversation done. End chat, BEEP!”
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
These Gen Alphas, I swear.
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
"How big were the first computers? Were they so big that you had to, like, JUMP on the keys to type?"
(I thought this was cute)
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
at bedtime, the five-year-old was basically like yelling POOP! POOP! so i said, why do you like saying poop so much. she said, it's a funny word. you know, like six is a funny word.i said, six is a funny word?she said, yeah, like that book that [older sibling] hasreader, this is the book she is talking about:https://microcosmpublishing.com/previews/Sex-is-a-funny-word_lg.jpg
― na (NA), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
H: If that guy really does dig a big trench for the cable, I'm going to go out there to watch him...
ME: Yeah, I guess that could be interesting?
H: ...since I've got nothing else to watch since we've got no cable right now.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Also I got pwned by the 13-year-old pretty good, so bad that I tweeted it.
She's been on a Star Wars kick, so of course I've been all "Back in my day, there was a wolfman who frequented the cantina! No CGI like in those 2000s movies!"
She got a collectors magazine in the mail the other day.
BEEPS: They even have pictures of toys you told me about from the... 1900s?ME: The 1970s.BEEPS: Yeah, that's what I meant.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
yesterday my 12 year old son totally seriously mentioned that he saw something old that "probably dates back to the 20th century"
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
"Daddy, does existence have a meaning?"
ME: You're asking me this at dinnertime on a Wednesday evening?
"Well, I saw it on a TV show..."
― OG Honeymoon Ave (morrisp), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
My 5yo made his first comic nerd pun/joke:
Him: What does that say on the wall?
Me: "Yankee go home." It means they want the Americans to leave.
Him: If the Thing from the Fantastic Four wrote it, it would say, "Yancey Go Home."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Just heard my 5yo singing 'everything is awesome! everything is falling out of a tree!'He's only heard it a couple of times...
― kinder, Monday, 20 July 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
Legos falling out of a tree would be awesome!
― peace, man, Monday, 20 July 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
My 5 year old playing with straws and water-squirting toys in the bath: Cmon, stay stable, have some momentum water!Me: Momentum water?Him: Momentum water, it’s like energy water. Me: Yes, I suppose it is.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
I told opal (almost 3.5) about constellations a week ago and at dinner tonight she said “daddy and I are both born in March so we’re Macy’s because there was a fish in the sky”
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
She can't speak yet but when our one year old sees a cat in our front garden through the window I'm pretty sure she's trying to say "omg what is it? A cat! Wow, a cat! I love it! Cat! I want to touch it! TOUCH IT! NOW! CAT! TOUCH IT! WHERE'S IT GONE?! CAT! COME BACK! CAT! CAAAAAATTTT!! AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"
― neith moon (ledge), Thursday, 6 August 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
"Daddy, I have an idea – I need a knife, and a bar of soap..."
― Rob, give a listen to Iggy Stooge (morrisp), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Hahahaaa
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 August 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
I love everything in this thread
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 August 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Opal's really into stalling bedtime. When she's in a bad fussy mood it's a total nightmare but when she's in a good mood it can be really cute. Tonight she asked me to look up if Tapirs are related to Elephants. I said it wasn't clear because I saw 2 websites and only one mentioned elephants. She said "do you know a lot of websites?" and then "before you go can you tell me about...um...two websites?"
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 August 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
lol that is so cute
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 August 2020 06:36 (three years ago) link
love it!
― DJI, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
When Opal's fussy but not too fussy I often say "who's the boss? are you the boss?" and she say's "I"m the boss!" but sometimes I say "mommy's actually the boss" preserving gender norms, sorry. Early today as I tried to get her down for her nap she suddenly said "why is Mommy always the boss?" so I said "why did you say that, because I joke about that?" and she said "mommy's the boss because you make a lot of mistakes so she's the boss". I then tried to explain that actually we're a team.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
opal otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
cosign opal, that kid has a bright future in HR lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 August 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
My son and I were playing a tense game of chess while he finished a snack. Then he said: "I wish I had some pretzels left... I wanted to try 'stress-eating'!"
― Washington Foosball Team (morrisp), Sunday, 9 August 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Ha!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 9 August 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
Opal watched a nature documentary about elephants today. While in the potty before bed she asked me “what is die?” There was a scene where elephants came to a dry watering hole and found elephant skeletons. She said “some elephants didn’t get enough water…so they died and their skeletons fell out.”
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
My 5 yo told me that he wants to be president so he can send secret detectives after Jeff Bezos to catch him stealing, then he would pretend to be a bad president and hire people to dress up like they were poor so he could steal from them and make Bezos trust him, then he would send his soldiers to kill Bezos and give his money to the poor
I told him the Saudis already tried it
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 13 August 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
Opal currently screaming at the top of her lungs from her bed “I’m too tired to fall asleep!”
― dan selzer, Sunday, 16 August 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Was explaining something regarding the origin of humans to my 7 year old when my 4 year old gives her theory:
"First there were dinosaurs, then there were pirates, then there were dragons, then there were doctors, then there was us"
I was unable to get any explanation for the pirates, but the doctors were there before us because "we all used to be babies and you need doctors for babies to be born"
― silverfish, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
how were the pirates born? maybe the LSAT answer to this question is "you need dinosaurs for pirates to be born"
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link