I love the language of little ones, so much that it's difficult for me to correct them.
Aidan: Mama, grant me some cheese!
He means GRATE, but I always hear his words and suddenly the world around me is tinged with King Arthur tapestry-like colors and and I feel like replying something like, "With a hearty good will, gentle Sir!"
On a scarier note, Paddy had me read some Calvin and Hobbes comics to him and is now mimicking Calvin. I heard him bumping his way downstairs the other day saying, "Here comes the human slinky!" Kieron and I both zipped over to make sure he wasn't suiting the action to the words, and I heard Kieron explaining a moment later, "Things that work in comics don't always work in real life..." I think, I hope, Paddy already knows that.
5 comments:
Yes, Calvin & Hobbes can be a dangerous influence! *LOL* Those quotes are priceless. I am so glad you're writing them down.
S.
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Oh, that's very funny!
Our boys seem to lead parallel lives in the comic department- we are presently off Tintin and onto Calvin and Hobbes. My son who is 5 loves when Calvin goes 2D!
Kristie
I love the King ARthur response, even if it is only in your head. And Keiron is very resonsible.
Geoff has declared that grant will always mean grate in our household. :)Now if we could only spread around our tradition of waking up on Christmas morning, and saying, 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any serpents!"
Someone else I know online once scrambled up one word in the opening line of Little Women. I like it very much.
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