Conversation the First
DADDY!
Yes, kiddo?
DADDY!
Yes?
DADDY!
What’s up?
DADDY!
What!
UM… I FORGOT.
Conversation the Second
DADDY I PLAYED HIDE AND SEEK WITH THE KIDS DOWN THE STREET BUT YOU JUST DRANK YOUR G2 WHILE I RAN AND RAN AND RAN DID YOU SEE ME RUNNING AND I WON EVERY TIME THEY NEVER TOUCHED ME AND I’M GREAT AT HIDE AND SEEK AND NOW WE’RE GOING TO PLAY BIKES AND I’M GOING TO WIN AT THAT BUT I SKINNED MY KNEE BUT IT DOESN’T HURT AND I RUBBED ALL THE BLACK DIRT OUT OF THE HOLE IN MY SKIN AND CAN I HAVE SOME OF YOUR G2?
Sure thing, here I’ll open it…
JUST GIVE IT TO ME PLEASE, YOU TALK TOO MUCH DADDY!
Conversation the Third
WHAT’S FOR DINNER DADDY?
I’m making bread-crumb coated butterfly porkchops…
YUCK I HATE PORKCHOPS!
With long-grain and wild rice…
YUCK I HATE RICE!
and applesauce…
YUCK I HATE APPLESAUCE
and ant-coated chocolate cookies for desert.
ANTS?
Yes.
WHAT FLAVOR?
Conversation the Fourth
DADDY!
Yes?
DADDY!
Yes!
DADDY I REMEMBERED!
Congratulations!
THANK YOU.
Well?
WELL WHAT DADDY?
What did you remember?
UM… I FORGOT AGAIN.
Conversation the Fifth
DADDY I NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING A SPEED RACER VIDEO GAME AND A TRANSFORMERS TEESHIRT AND MY YOSHI HALLOWEEN COSTUME AND A BOOK ABOUT NASCAR AND MY COUSIN QUINNIE WHO ACTS LIKE MY LITTLE BROTHER AND COPIES EVERYTHING I DO BUT THAT’S OK BECAUSE I LIKE HAVING A LITTLE BROTHER WHO DOESN’T LIVE WITH ME.
Conversation the Last
DADDY CAN I SLEEP IN MY TEESHIRT AND UNDERPANTS?
You don’t want to wear your pajamas?
NO I WANT MY TEESHIRT AND UNDERPANTS.
Well just so you know, if you wear your teeshirt and underpants to bed, that doesn’t mean you can wear your pajamas to school.
IT DOESN’T?
No.
FINE! I’LL WEAR MY PAJAMAS.
Rofl, your boys a trip sometimes. Always can look forward to a good laugh from his antics
Haha, loved the last one.
Hmmm the last one makes me think you have considered this yourself. You caught onto it a bit to fast….
wait – does this mean he normally wears an outfit consisting of a teeshirt and underpants to school? Or is that just how he usually ends up after an hour or so there?
Had a laugh reading it, especially the last one.. why didnt I think of that as a kid? My parents would never have catched on until it was too late!
Awesome read overall!
Your son is a treasure.
Love the conversations with the kiddo. They’re even (/gasp!) better than the conversations with Brain!
/giggle
I was totally following his logic on the last conversation. Just replace you with my wife and your son with me and this is the conversation that takes place in my house every night before a workday.
The last one go me, obviously you have used the “You wore that to bed so you can’t wear it to school” excuse before
Serisouly laughing so hard I couldn’t see straight. =)
I think I’ve had every one of those conversations with my son at some point or another.
Well, except the pajamas one… that’s inventive, lol!
Hahaha, awesome.
I’m looking forward to have a first grader of my own
::wondering why these conversations sound so familiar, then I look at the third-grader sitting next to me::
Oh, yeah… Honestly, it hasnt changed all that much! ::laughing::
laughed out loud on this post. awesomeness Daniel
that gave me some laughs
is he really like that?
gosh, you must be one tired man
/lol
Had many similar conversations myself with my now-5th grader.
And you’re only a year or so out from every other sentence being “And know what?” (or “guess what”)…
http://clioratha.blogspot.com/2005/08/know-what.html
Daniel, you crack me up … and now there are two of you to crack me up – lol
Every day and every conversation is a joy… unless you are in a rush and those single sentence conversations can go on for 20 minutes…
Then there’s the 20 questions.. not so much their “why” questions, rather the 20 questions you need to ask to work out which part of the single sentence conversation is the important one that needs your attention immediately…
Thanks… somehow I forgot the son I left at childcare only hours ago… until now. can’t wait to get home!
Absolutley legendary. DADDY…i forgot. I think every parent can identify with that statement.
Kids are a joy XD
I agree with your son re: porkchops. The ants, not so much. Speed Racer rules, but not as much as Racer X. I may be a bit biased though.
hahahaha, bestest ever, forwarding on to my wife!
My 11-yr old loves pickles. Eating them, drinking the pickle juice (ew), just loves loves loves them. To the extent that I’ve had to institute a one-pickle-a-day rule in the house or the jar will be emptied within two days of buying it. The other day I brought home a new jar of pickles, and upon learning this, she yelled exultantly, “I’M GOING TO DRINK SO MUCH PICKLE JUICE I’M GONNA PEE GREEN!”
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-Del