December 2010
5 posts
Oh, WoW!
After realizing I’m losing my programming edge, due to casual playing of World of Warcraft, I closed my WoW account. My 5yo daughter’s response: “NO, daddy! They’ll DIE in there! Hey have to eat! What if a dragon eats them, or they could get ganked by Alliance!?” Okay, so maybe I played a wee bit more than I realized… :/
Hungry!
My son, to my wife who is in her third trimester of pregnancy:
Son: “Mommy, if you weren’t so hungry you could stop eating and help me look for the Lego piece that I’m missing.”
Wife: “Um… yeah, I can’t argue with that.” <back to eating>
Mommy's Real Name
Mommy: “What is my name, Anna?”
My three year old Anna: “Mommy.”
Mommy: “No my real name like what Daddy calls me?”
Anna: “You mean knucklehead?”
Innocence
I’ve recently bought a small workshop a couple minutes walk from my house and was talking to my 13 year old son about it…
Me: You can have a key if you want to go over there and make something.
Sam: Well, maybe.
Me: Well, you might be more interested when you have a girlfriend (thinking what I could have done had I had a key to somewhere when I first got into girls).
Sam: I...
Avatar ingrained
This happened a few days after we watched like 4 times in a week the movie Avatar with my girls (4yo & 7yo).
4yo: Look Dad! We found a slug! (in the backyard)
7yo: A couple classmates at school killed a slug last week by repeatedly pricking it with a stick.
4yo: No!!! That’s BAD! You don’t have to kill the slug! It’s part of THE NATURE!
(explanation of the...