little philosophers

Joey, from the back seat of the car: "Why I don't believe in God, is that God is a person, and God created persons,* so who created God? And why Caroline** doesn't believe in God is that God created Caroline, but then..." Here he pauses and stammers as he tries to remember the argument. "God created Caroline, so why didn't God make Caroline believe in God?"





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* Joey pronounces "person" as "perthon" and "persons" as "perthonth"
** Pronounced "Care-wine"

Joey

Joey: A gazzoom is part rabbit part flamingo. It is white and always eating nothing.

Joey Picks Up Taglines

All day Joey has been saying "Creepy? Creepy is my middle name!" I recognized this as a line from Scooby Doo II, which is the kids' new favorite movie.

Then Joey started adding "Look for it at Creepy Dot Com!"

This is not from the movie.

Dancing

Me: Joey, do you need to use the potty?

Joey: No.

Me: Then why are you dancing around holding your penis?

Joey: Because that is my favorite kind of dance to do.

Joey Dancing

The kids dance while I sing Burma

On Kids' Questions

Caroline asked me in the car just now, "Daddy, how does the brain hold all the words you want to say?" (I told her it was a great question, but that no one knew the answer.)

Joey asks "What kind?" where other children ask "why?" When Caroline was Joey's age and a little younger, she would point to everything she saw and asked "why?" "Why leaf?" There were also standard kid why questions, like "why do trees have leaves?" Children say why just to get information from adults, any information, and they don't really care whether you are giving a proper "why" explanation. They just want you to keep the conversation going. "Why" is good for this because it iterates indefinitely, as any parent will recognize.

For Joey, the way to keep information coming is to ask "what kind."

"That's a leaf"
"What kind leaf"
"A maple leaf"
"What kind maple leaf?"
"A red one"

etc.

I'm amused that "what kind?" iterates as well as "why?" I also imagine I am raising the next Linnaeus.

Joey and I switch to opera on youtube

Joey: What going *on*
Me: The girl just...and the boy...I don't know.
Joey: That princess.
Me: Yes, that's a princess.
Joey: That bears.
Me: Those are bears
Joey: Have teeth.
Me: They have teeth.

My son the musician