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Monday, December 27, 2010

A Day in the Life of... Mr. Mom

Andrew thought he'd write down all the questions the kids asked him today. He may have missed a few, but I think he got most of them.

Jackson:

Do you know the Teen Titans?
Can I eat Sammy’s food?
What’s the difference between a mayor and a president?
Do you think grown-up pirates can have children pirates?
Can I have a sheet of paper?
Can I borrow one of your pens?
Is it usually pirates who make treasure maps?
Sometime can we turn these pieces of cardboard into a model Mystery Machine?
Am I allowed to go now?
I’m pretty sure they play hockey in Russia – is that correct?
Can I have a dessert?
Can I please watch on TV while Sammy is having his turn [on the computer]?
Do you think they will get a new National Treasure guy for National Treasure 3?
Is it my turn now [on the computer]?
I’m pretty sure that in other countries they write different than we write, like we write right to left, but they write left to right, is that right?
Can sometimes people outgrow their wheelchairs?
How do you tell if a baby is going to be able to walk on its legs or not?
Would it be ok if I got myself a few cups of water?
Do most pirates have pet dogs and parrots?
By the way, when was Scrappy Doo first invented?

Katie:

Is this good enough with my food?
Now is this good enough with my food?
Can I have a sheet of paper?
Is this [“havving”] how you spell “having”?
Can we glue a box to the box that we are using for the Mystery Machine?
Would you like to see my restaurant?
Am I allowed to go upstairs now?
Is this good enough with my food?
Is there a difference between these two verses [Gen. 1.11-12]?
Did you know that Jackson and me made up a game where you play on the couch and have to get to level 1, and then level 2, and then it gets really hard and you have to get to level 3?
Is this good enough with my food?
Now is this good enough with my food?
Now is this good enough with my food?
Would you like to see the Arthur story I wrote?

Sammy:

How him [Silver Surfer] get in outer space?
What time is it on my watch?
Now what time is it on my watch?
What is that kind of baby catechism question?
What’s that kind of city [pointing to a poster of the Berlin Wall]?
What’s Berlin?
I found a new page [website] – can I go to it?
Please can I change into my daytime clothes [asked right before naptime]?
Did you put coins in my piggy bank yet?
What’s that thing [butterfly]?
How come Hulk ate all the Avengers’ food?
Why people can’t see through ice?
Is this good enough with my food?
Why he take blue core out [watching Astro Boy]?
What you think I should pray for?
Why are you exhausted?

1 comment:

stefanie cunnington said...

You know all that sounds very familiar:-) Life with children is never boring is it?!