Month: May 2014

Richard [tired or hearing Isaac and a neighbor boy bicker about a game]: “Stop! I’m gonna call next door and ask your Mom if I can kill you both!”
Neighbor kid [with devilish grin]: “You can kill my sisters!”

Richard [reading children’s version of Odyssey]: “Odysseus swore to fight with the king, so he had to go help rescue Helen from the Trojans.”
Isaac: “Oh!  Helen!”
Richard: “You know about Helen?”
Isaac: “Sure, she lost her sight and hearing when she was only two years old.”

A guest Isaacism

Richard: “You’re not wearing the bracelet I got you for your birthday.”

Paige [smiling]: “It didn’t match.  But I am wearing the chocolate you got me!”

Richard [talking to Paige]: “Maybe you can go by Isaac’s school tomorrow . . . “
Isaac [loudly]: “Buy my school?! Mom can’t buy my school!  That’s crazy!”

Isaac [nicely muddy from digging in the yard]: “Dad! We found ancient wood!  We pushed on it and the ground just collapsed.  It was like a wooden wall.  We think they people who used to live here were super bossy.  They built a big fence to keep people out of their yard!  And it’s old, like from the 80s.  I think we might be interested in, what do you call it?”
Richard [crying quietly]: “Archaeology?”
Isaac: “Yeah, that’s it!”