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(He was 6.5; Peter just found this quote written on an ooooold receipt and I figured I’d write it down so we might actually remember it.) “But mama, everybody knows how to swim because they swam in their mommies!”

So I’m singing the TMBG song “I am a paleontologist” while making breakfast, and T comes over and says: “I am a meteorologist.” Me: “What’s a meteorologist study?” (We’d had a conversation a few days ago about how meteorologists don’t … Continue reading →

T: “I wouldn’t kill animals, because then there’d be nothing left to eat!”

T, explaining the difference between our body types: “You’re softer because you have more layers of flesh and blood than I do.”

10-y-o N: Did you ever consider *not* being sarcastic? It might be funny to you, but how do you think it feels to everybody else?

(We went camping last week, the boys and I, leaving their Papa home to work…) Driving up the windy windy roads, 10-y-o N says “wheeeeee!” 7-y-o T says, grumpily: “It’s not very whee to me!” He later tells me: “I’m … Continue reading →

1. He walks into the kitchen the other day and asks me “What concoction are you creating now?” 2. Talking about his LEGO set, he calls it a “TIE Fighter Igvanced” (not Advanced)

As I was waking T (who is now 7yo) this morning, I went to tickle him, and he responded thusly: “I’ve got PENIS defenses!” -T

T, talking about a ruler that lists and shows pictures of all the presidents: “The president at the very end of that ruler is Aquabomba. The very first one is Washington. And the twelfth one, or the thirteenth one I … Continue reading →

T, thoughtfully: If I was an animal that swam, my style would be ambush and then chase.