November 2010
35 posts
Me: I have THREE babies, Alice, did you know that? Do you know who they are?
Alice: Baby Hal, and… and… and two babies in your tummy.
No, but she is apparently a little math whiz.
Clark: I hope we make it to Super Target. There’s a big storm headed this way.
Me: Where did you hear that?
Clark: Nowhere. Just look at it. Those clouds are so dark and foggy. And when I look really really hard with my eyes I can see outer space through them.
(We pulled into Target and it started to rain.)
Halloween is too scary. It have a witch. It is at Target. And it have something else by the Halloween witch. It have a pumpkin. A light up one. A spark-lee light up one. That pumpkin not scary.
Alice, two years + two months
Clark, playing a triangle and singing “baa baa black sheep” stops abruptly.
“Hey, remember that one song we sang at preschool but it wasn’t my regular school, it was the one by the highway, er, the high school, and instead of my regular classroom we were in the kindermusik classroom and then Edward found out he was a werewolf?”
“Whaaa huh?”
Clark, three years + ten months
“I think Charlie Brown was just saying “trick or rocks”.”
– Clark
“Me: Did you guys have fun at trick or treat?
Alice: uh huh
Clark: No. It was...”
October 2010
14 posts
“Watching Luke on the roof, cleaning the gutters.
Alice: What are you doin’ up...”
“Alice: No Clarky, I don’t like you! (pause) I like mama.
Clark: Yep. I like...”
“No Alice, the Mickey Mouse costume is not for you. You know Ethan and Kai’s...”
– We were actually lending it to entirely different Jonathan but it’s nice to know he listens.
