Category Archives: Kiddos

Conversation

Kenna sits in the very back row of our minivan. Sometimes she’s hard to hear over road noise, sister noise, and because of her generally quiet voice. The other day she said something, which I didn’t hear. I asked her to repeat herself and she did, but I still didn’t hear. I told her I’d have to have her repeat it when we stopped and it was quieter.

When we stopped, I asked her to say it again – she gave me a disgusted look, rolled her eyes and said: “Mom, we already had this con-bersation before.”

Rated ‘R’

Moira and I were talking about why movies have ratings. I explained that rated ‘R’ meant they could have violence and bad words. Moira says “you mean like stupid?” I told her that it would be worse than that.

She nodded knowingly and said “You mean dumbhead.”

Marriage Proposal

Moira and Kenna were snuggling on the couch last night and Kenna turned to Moira and said “will you just marry me and then we can live together forever?” Moira seriously considered the proposal and told her “I might want to marry someone else, but I’ll let you know.”

Mummies

Moira and Kenna were out in the playroom chatting it up.

Moira (with a very authoritative tone): “You know Kenna, mummies are just dead people wrapped up in toilet paper.”
Kenna: “Why are they wrapped in toilet paper?”

We never did hear the answer because the initial “fact” was so darn funny!

Kenna and Religion

Moira attended a daycare up until she entered kindergarten that was not religious in any way. Kenna is having a different experience because she is attending a Lutheran preschool. We aren’t particularly religious people so I’m glad that Kenna is getting some exposure to at least one of the world’s religions. Some of the stuff she comes home with cracks me up.

Kenna: “Mom, did you know that Cheesus lives in the sky? That’s what Master Steve told us.”

Kenna (pointing to Sloane): “Mom, we should have named her Baby Jesus.”
Me: “Why?”
Kenna: “Cause we already call her Baby Sloane and I like Jesus better.”

Random Factoids from Moira – Part 3

Moira: Mom, did you know that your brain is totally covered in mucous?
Me: Nope, can’t say that I did. Did you learn that at school?
Moira: Yup. Isn’t the body cool?

Random Factoids from Moira – Part 2

Moira: Hey Mom, you know what?
Me: What?
Moira: Your intestines are as tall as you are.
Me: Good to know.

Moira on Moira

Moira:

I’m very artsy, I’m very dancey, I’m very styley…I mean stylish!

Random Factoids from Moira

Moira looks a lot like me, but in a lot of ways she acts like her dad. One of the big ways is her LOVE of random tidbits of information that she picks up along the road of life.

She just finished doing a unit on the human body in her class. This has led to some real doozies.

I’ll start with my personal favorite:

Alan and Moira are wrestling in the playroom. Alan picks up Moira and pretends to drop her on her head on the ground. She squeals, giggles, then says loudly “Careful Dad, my skull is only as thick as my pinky finger!!”

You, little girl, are too cute.

A Different Kind of Addiction

We were driving home the other day and listening to the radio. Arizona has been running some really hard-core anti-meth ads. They usually start out with something along the lines of “I’ve been doing meth since I was …” Moira and Kenna were happily chatting in the very back row of our mini-van so I didn’t even think they were paying attention.

Then Moira got quiet and said loudly: “I’ve been doing math since I was 4.”

I nearly had to pull over I laughed so hard.

Innocence is awesome eh?