Seven Quick Takes Friday, vol 37

Edition 2 of "The Things They Say"

1.

Sunshine: "Dad, is Ovechkin [hockey player] married?"

Daddy: "No, he's not."

Sunshine: "Ohhhh, so he's just a grown up kid!"

2.

Sunshine:  "Mom I wanna be a doctor when I grow up."

Then, later after reading this really tender book about babies:  "I reeeeally wanna have a baby!  But I wanna be a doctor too. "

Me: "You can be a doctor and have a baby."

Sunshine: "Oh, I can take care of a baby and be a doctor?  And also live on a farm?  Well, that would be alot of work.  I would have to take care of people, take care of a baby AND take care of a farm!"

3.

Rosebud:  "Moooommm, stop telling me!  I have my good hands and my sensible eyes and I can figure it out all by myself!"

4.

Turtle:  "I don't care about money.  People are way too bothered about money.  Life is more important than money!"

Rosebud: "Yeah, we should grow our own food and not need money."

(I raise some objections, for instance about seeds and salt and electricity.)

Turtle: "I don't care about electricity.  Well . . . we'd only buy useful things!  Not things we don't need, like random stuff."

Rosebud:  "Yeah!  We could get, like, lots of seeds and like . . . TWENTY bags of potatoes.  We wouldn't need to buy just stuff with our money."

Sunshine, piping up: "I like buying stuff with money!"

5.

During a conversation about what being a hero means, and what kinds of virtues heroes have, including faithfulness, Turtle says:  "I don't think we even have the faith of a mustard seed!"

Rosebud:  "But every time we do something kind or loving our faith grows bigger and bigger, up into a mustard tree!"

6.

Rosebud: "Where did you get those address labels, Mom?"

Me: "In the mail from someplace that was trying to ask for my money."

Rosebud: "Did you give them some?"

Me: "No."

Rosebud: "Well, that's not very kind!"

7.

Sparky, pushing me back to the floor where I am sitting: "Eye down, Mommy, Eye down!" 

*Grunts and groans from me as I comply, lowering my back to the floor.*

Sparky immediately steps up onto my chest and looks down at me.  "Dat better, Mommy?  Dat better?"

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