Archive for March 19th, 2010

Family Conversations, Part 9

Mar

19

2010

This exchange happened a couple weeks ago, when icicles were hanging off our front porch and I was outside with the kids.

Some Guy (handing icicles to the children): Here, you can eat these icicles. These are good because they are clear. Don’t eat any dirty-looking icicles.
Alpha: Like the ones on the van?
Right.
Yeah, cause they’re salty.
What?!
I licked one!

Well, you gotta learn somehow.

Now on to last week:
We had finished dinner, and Alpha decided he wanted Fun Dip for his dessert. After mulling over the package, he announced that he was going to have the “Cherry Yum-Diddly” flavor. Then he read some more of the package.

Alpha: “Artificially flavored” What does that mean?
Some Guy: It is a fake flavor. That means it tastes like cherries even though it doesn’t have any cherries in it.
Do you know what, Dad?
What, Alpha?
That means that it doesn’t have any real Yum-Diddlies in it either.

I would have to agree.

I still haven’t figured out what a Yum-Diddly tastes like, real or artificial.

Finally, a clip from earlier this week, where we deal with the ever-present problem of children who are ready to be done with the shopping trip and have nothing constructive to do while waiting in the check-out line :

Alpha (grabbing an item off the display rack beside him) : Can we get this?
Some Guy: No, put that back please.
What is it?
That’s a lighter and it is used to start fires.
Hey look! Mini-lighters.
Put those back too please.
(reading the packaging before putting it back): Aww…it says to keep away from us.

The packages do usually say “Keep away from children” don’t they?

Does not the ear test words,As the palate tastes its food?

Job 12:11

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