Tonight we read Calvin and Hobbes for bedtime. After I read the comic strip above, I tried to explain a little about Michelangelo.
Me: Remember, Michelangelo, we saw the statues he made when we went to Italy?
Sempi: Yeah.
Me: He's a great sculptor. Do you guys remember the David statue?
Vian: I know who Michelangelo is, he's a TURTLE!
o_O
Vian was playing with his stuffed animals.
Vian: Watch my deer. It can do a somersault backwards.
Sempi: (thinks for a bit, turns to me)... if you call a flip a somersault, do you call a backward flip a wintersugar?
Me: What a terribly missed opportunity. They just call it a reverse somersault, those unimaginative linguists.
We are having dinner. Sempi is eating enthusiastically and suddenly cried out, "AAARGH!".
Me: What happened?
Sempi: I accidentally bit my tongue while chewing.
Me: I'm sorry Sempi, that must be quite painful.
Vian who is listening to all this plays around with the food in his mouth and suddenly declares:
Vian: You can actually bite your tongue anytime you want, not just on accident.
Me: That's.... that's not a feature Vian, it's a bug.
I'm reading a bedtime story to the kids. There's a picture of a Pterosaur in one of the pages.
Vian: That is not even a dinosaur.
I am quite proud that he know that Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs.
Me: Oh, what are they?
Vian: They're just grown-up chickens in the sky.
Sempi: Argh! They're called Pterosaur, Vian. Ugh!
Vian likes taunting his brother, so he repeats his flying chicken theory one more time for good measure.
Both kids insisted that they want to get ready for bed last.
I told Vian (4yo) in secret that we're going to trick Sempi (8yo). He should floss and brush but not do MiPaste (a Fluoride paste). Then after I get Sempi ready we can do MiPaste, Vian would be the last to get ready.
Vian bought into the idea and he brushed first with a mischievous glee. The plan worked like a charm, Sempi was happy that he was brushing after Vian and Vian was happy that he didn't do his MiPaste until after Sempi brushed, thus he was the last to get ready for bed.
I emerged the victor.
