Category Archives: kids

Rome

Child #2 [out of nowhere]: “Who’s your favourite pope?”

Baptists

Child #2: “Baptists are different because they don’t crystalise children.”

R.E.

Child #2: “What’s your favourite religion? Romans? Prostisisms? Quakists?”

Wild goose chase

Child #1: “There were lots of answers you could choose but some of them were blue herons.”

Deep and crisp and even

Child#2 [after playing Good King Wenceslas on the cornet. In July): “Is there really a Feast of Stephen?” Daddy: “Yes” Child#2: “Can we go?”  

Perforation

Child #2 [after re-reading this entry]: “…but wouldn’t that help? It would be an extra hole you could hear through?”

Untrue

Grandma: “I used to skip and dance around just like you.” Child #2 [seriously]: “Grandma, you know you shouldn’t tell lies.”

Occupational hazard

[Mummy tries her new chef’s jacket on. After being a chef. For 3 years.]   Daddy: “Guess what job mummy does?” Child #2: “Dentist?” …. Child #2 [seeing us laughing]: “…nurse?”

Browsing

Child #1: “What’s the difference between Google Chrome and Mozzarella Weefox?”

Quinine

Child#2: “Can I have some more of that Indian Toxic Water?”