Thursday, December 30, 2010

Kids say the darndest things!

C: "Dad, do you know a problem that all of us have?"

Dad: "No. What?"

C: "It's that we think that someone is doing something that we don't want them to do...and we don't ask them if that's really what they're doing."

Dad: "You are so right."

- C (age nine)

Friday, December 24, 2010

Kids say the darndest things!

"Dad, I cut and folded these napkins for Santa into isosceles triangles. But, I did it kind of quickly so some of them came out a bit scalene."

- C (age nine)

Kids say the darndest things!

Dad: "Better go to sleep. Santa's gonna be pretty upset if he gets here and you're still awake you know. After all he has to visit about half a billion households in one night!"

C: "Yes. That sounds entirely impossible, but apparently it's not."

- C (age nine)

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Kids say the darndest things!

"Oops. My bad."

- God (C playing Pocket God)

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Kids say the darndest things!

"Dad, I think I typed a whole paragraph already!"

- C (age nine), one hour after announcing she was going to sit down to write her first story