Month: February 2013

[Family is watching Frozen Planet. A wolf is splashing through the water toward a duck.]

Isaac: “Does that wolf eat, um, meat that swims?”

Richard: “Yes. Yes he does.”

(6 yr olds are super-sensitive as they try to figure out right and wrong, life and death.  So if you see him, no teasing about this one!)

Richard [tickling Isaac]:

Isaac [laughing]: “S  O  P  T”

Richard [still tickling]: “S  O  P  T ???”  That doesn’t mean anything!”

 

Isaac [still laughing]:  “Yes it does.   It mean, um to get all soaked in something!”

Isaac [while camping]:  “Why aren’t knives allowed in school?”
Richard: “You aren’t supposed to take anything to school that could be used to hurt someone?”
Isaac: “What?!  I’d have to cut off my hands!  They can hurt people!”

Isaac [to his friend J.]: “Let me know if you are going to take your head off.”

Richard [from the next room]: “No!  If he takes his head off he will die.”

Isaac: “No, not for real we are playing legos.”

J. [sighing]: “Why is he always so silly?”

Isaac: “I don’t know.  Some dads are just that way.”

Richard [impatient] “Isaac.  Stop watching TV and get ready to go to dinner.  Or would you rather just eat plain crackers and watch cartoons forever?”
Isaac: “Yes!  Violent cartoons!”

Richard [annoyed]:  “Be quiet!  Play with your toys.”
Isaac: “But my mouth is a toy!”

[Listening to “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me”]
Peter Sagal: “Oh my god!”
Isaac “What did he just say?!”
Richard: “Huh?”
Isaac: “Did he say ‘Oh my god?'”
Richard: “I guess so.  I’ll email him and let him know ‘Oh my gosh’ might be better.”
Isaac: “Is he even still alive?  This is recorded, you know.”

Isaac [three seconds after I post a video to Facebook]:  “How many likes do I have?”

Isaac [watching aerial footage of an ice sheet]:  “Wow!  That looks like… It looks like fiction!”

From a campsite long ago.

Richard: “Ben, come here!  Quick!  Matt found a whole bunch of cranes over in the river.”

Ben: “I can’t. I kind of tied myself in a tree.”

Richard: [sees Ben securely lashed to a branch 5ft above the ground.  Rolls eyes].