Overheard this morning:
Father: “You are old enough to put your shoes on by yourself. You are eight.”
Son: “What if I was four?”
Father: “If you were four I would help you.”
Son: Then the solution is time travel!
Liver must be good for vegetarians!
— after hearing that liver contains a lot of protein.
NK (7): “Dad, I’m gonna dig a hole in the garden.”
Me: “OK”
NK: “Can I paint it black?”
Me: “Sure!”
NK: Cool! It will suck all the light around and earth will collapse into it because of, you know, gravity.
They put salt & pepper in the water?
— Lina, age 4, after swallowing a bit of sea water during our beach vacation.
Mommy, I couldn’t have come out of your belly, because there’s no door in your belly!
I don’t think Santa exists, because deers can’t fly since they don’t have wings.
— NKL, age 7.
You told me babies are made when parents get married. Does that mean Jane and John got married three times???!
— NKL, 7, talking about parents of three.
Soooooo, Dad, before the Big Bang, …
— NKL, age 7.
Why does it get colder the higher you go even though you’re getting closer to the sun?
— Damian, age 11.
My 6-year-old son is devouring half a watermelon. I tell him: “Make sure to spit out the seeds otherwise a watermelon plant will grow in your tummy.” He looks at me as if I were crazy and answers: That’s impossible, Dad! There’s no sunlight in my belly.
I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
