Whenever I start freaking out about violence in video games Jerry sighs heavily and says, “Mom, it’s only a game.” Duh.

4 Y.O. daughter: “Why on earth do people throw away so much good stuff?!!!”

Now come and have a look at the Mullum garbage to find out why this is funny, because compared to what we’re used to find in Sydney this is absolutely crap! (Agree Arun?)

Daughter hitting a plant with a hammer.
Me: “please don’t hit the plant, it has feelings too you know”
She: “Why??”
Me desperately thinking, “oh shit, maybe it was only crappy new agy kind of research that I’ve read years ago, that said that plants have feelings! But I had to say something so I said:
“Well, uhm, a plant has consciousness too.”
She: “What is consciousness? I want to know EVERYTHING adults know”…
Me, cowardly changing the subject because … I don’t want her to know already that I know very little with certainty!

He said, Dad, is your heart melting?

My husband… ?

He said Dad, my heart is melting.

My husband said, Why is your heart melting?

He said. “Earwax!”

Also when asking B how he knew something he responded taht it was his animation. I asked if they had watched something so he could learn (can’t remember what it was now). but he was adamant that he “just goes to his animation and knows it”. After sometime I realised he meant his imagination LOL

Miss 4 has told me she likes ‘egg pilots” for dinner. Translation = omelets