Today's Lynxcub highlights
Lynxcub: "My rubber ducky got lost, because it had a crack in the back of its head."
Me: "A crack in the back of its head? How did that happen?"
Lynxcub (gleefully, with stabbing motions): "I CUT IT in the back of its head!"
Me (somewhat alarmed): "Why did you do that?!"
Lynxcub (shyly): "It was a silly thing for me to do. But I thought it was a good idea at the time... (then, shouting gleefully) AND IT WAS!!!"
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Me: "Now that we have popsicle molds, what kind of juice do you think we should use to make our first batch of popsicles?"
Lynxcub: "PIZZA juice!"
Me (laughing): "I'm... um, not sure there's any such thing as pizza juice, sweetie. We could maybe try tomato juice if you want... But I was thinking some kind of fruit juice, first."
Lynxcub (nodding): "Apple juice... (pause) and baking powder!"
Me: "Baking powder? Why would you want to put baking powder in popsicles? We're going to freeze them, not bake them!"
Lynxcub: "But I LIKE baking them! I LOVE BAKED POPSICLES!!!"
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Lynxcub (after watching a couple of short animal videos on the National Geographic Kids web site): "Can we watch just one short video of firefighters?"
Me: "OK, let's just find one..."
Lynxcub: "Snake firefighters!"
Me: "Um... I'm not sure there's any such thing as --"
Lynxcub: "Skeleton snake firefighters!"
It's possible (though I didn't think of it until seeing a comment to kettunainen's FB post about this) that he may have been thinking of a video he saw a week or two ago, of a firefighting robot that looks kind of like a snake, and sprays fire-extinguisher-stuff out its "mouth". Or not.
But either way, as I commented there, it's kind of weirdly amusing that while robot snake firefighters don't sound any less surreal than skeleton snake firefighters, apparently they do sort of technically exist.
Me: "A crack in the back of its head? How did that happen?"
Lynxcub (gleefully, with stabbing motions): "I CUT IT in the back of its head!"
Me (somewhat alarmed): "Why did you do that?!"
Lynxcub (shyly): "It was a silly thing for me to do. But I thought it was a good idea at the time... (then, shouting gleefully) AND IT WAS!!!"
. . .
Me: "Now that we have popsicle molds, what kind of juice do you think we should use to make our first batch of popsicles?"
Lynxcub: "PIZZA juice!"
Me (laughing): "I'm... um, not sure there's any such thing as pizza juice, sweetie. We could maybe try tomato juice if you want... But I was thinking some kind of fruit juice, first."
Lynxcub (nodding): "Apple juice... (pause) and baking powder!"
Me: "Baking powder? Why would you want to put baking powder in popsicles? We're going to freeze them, not bake them!"
Lynxcub: "But I LIKE baking them! I LOVE BAKED POPSICLES!!!"
. . .
Lynxcub (after watching a couple of short animal videos on the National Geographic Kids web site): "Can we watch just one short video of firefighters?"
Me: "OK, let's just find one..."
Lynxcub: "Snake firefighters!"
Me: "Um... I'm not sure there's any such thing as --"
Lynxcub: "Skeleton snake firefighters!"
It's possible (though I didn't think of it until seeing a comment to kettunainen's FB post about this) that he may have been thinking of a video he saw a week or two ago, of a firefighting robot that looks kind of like a snake, and sprays fire-extinguisher-stuff out its "mouth". Or not.
But either way, as I commented there, it's kind of weirdly amusing that while robot snake firefighters don't sound any less surreal than skeleton snake firefighters, apparently they do sort of technically exist.