Transient Witticisms: The Verbal & The Physical

“Dad-O, why is ‘Leonard’ part ‘nerd’?” asks Finn.”
Yeah,” adds Henry, “and is ‘Peter’ made of poop? ‘Pee-turd!'”
“Ah-froot-erzayn, Dad-O,” Henry tells me. “That’s how fruit says Auf Wiedersehen.”
Finn: “What’s the English word for guacamole?”
Margot: “Guacamole.”
Finn: “What’s the Spanish word, then?”
Margot: “Guacamole.”
This is blowing his mind. 🙂
Finn explained family slang to his teacher today: “My dad calls me ‘sucka,’ and I enjoy it!”
“‘Damn,'” says Henry, quoting his mom, then explains: “She’s talking about a little wall that holds back water.”
Henry: “Dad-O, let’s give that road a hit!”
Me: “…?”
Finn, translating: “He means ‘Let’s hit the road!'”

The human bod:
- I’m not sure the boys drew the right lessons from “The Little Engine That Could.” “Dad-O, we’ll grab those mean engines & pee in their funnels!”
- Henry spies me from the bathroom, his eyes twinkling: “I’m gonna use my large intestine!” Thanks for sharing, buddy :-P!
- We got an eyeful of elephant anatomy at the Oakland Zoo. “That guy must have a *really* big large intestine!” observes Henry.
- Finn’s resisting independence: “I’m not gonna poop by myself at kindergarten, or in high school, or even in *college*!”
- “I’m pretty sure I popped out of Mom-O as a 3-year-old,” says Finn, “’cause I don’t remember being a 1- or 2-year-old.”

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