The phone rings and Leo answers. It’s for Sunny. A woman from the local church youth program is calling to invite Sunny to a weekend activity. I know this because I saw the caller ID. I would probably have not answered. I don’t like talking to people on the phone very much.
I hear Leo say, [...]
“I’m OK, it’s just pain!” -Leo, age 10
“Mom, do we have a plan to survive a nuclear fallout?”
“That’s not going to happen Leo.”
“How do you know?’
“Because… well, I guess I don’t know for sure but it’s really, really unlikely. And it’s not something you should spend time worrying about. We will all be fine.”
“There is a meteor that is going to hit [...]
“Oh. My. God. Mom, my milk is breaking the laws of physics! It’s fizzing!”
“Let me see this fizzy milk…”
“Oh, I killed it. With my FIST!”
–Badger, age 7
by Danica on November 10, 2009
“Toilet! Prepare to fall victim to my butt blade!”
–Leo, age 10
It is 7:30 in the morning and the kids are up sitting at the kitchen bar eating breakfast. They are sleepy, but slowly waking up and resigned to their fate of another day of public education. Badger, like so many seven year olds, uses his first moments of wakefulness as a time for self reflection.
“I [...]
“Fuck You, and Merry Christmas!”
–Badger, age 7 (after making an awesome kill on Nazi Zombies video game)
by Danica on September 25, 2009
“Mom, you are the Best Mom in the Universe. That is if there are other planets in the universe with highly intelligent animals on them. If not, Best in the World isn’t bad.”
–Badger, age 7
by Danica on September 17, 2009
“I think I’d be well suited for a career in stand up comedy”
-Leo, age 10
by Danica on September 15, 2009
Sunny and her friend are playing with an old doll house. Being the little girls that they are, their world revolves around little furry creatures, so the tenants of this doll house are not a happy Mother, Father, and four small children with smiles permanently affixed to their plastic faces. No. Those [...]
by Danica on November 16, 2007