Puppet owl

This is puppet owl. And I love him. He is carrying my thumb. He flies high, flies low, and goes everywhere you can go by flying.

Ben Carrying Pickles

Here is Ben. Look at him. He is carrying pickles, and I love him. He goes fast, he goes slow. He goes everywhere you can go on tracks. Bye!

Weeee!

 

Declan admitted that he was a little scared the first time, but then he thought it was fun...

Modal Reasoning

An argument between Declan and Tara this evening:

Tara: It's time for a bath
Declan: I'm too tired. If I have a bath, I'll have to play with the letters, and I'm too tired to play with the letters.
Tara: Then don't play with the letters.
Declan: But I can't not play with the letters. I must play with the letters if I have a bath.
Tara (switching tactics): If you're so tired, why are you spending so much energy arguing?
Declan: (no comment).

Brilliant. Incidentally, the transition from ~M~P to LP is valid in S4 (if my memory serves, it is the summer...).

Freakin' Awesome, man

(note: this is not my fault. Blame Matt Bown of Extreme Trains on the History Channel. Declan also said something was 'wicked cool' earlier.)

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck would chuck wood?

Now you know:

Head-Bonker

I forgot to add these from my twitter feed, so here they are:

And for the grandparents:

Inductive Skepticism in a 4 year old.

Tonight, as I was cutting up the pizza for dinner, my 4-year old Declan came up and asked me if he could have a piece of pepperoni. I said "wait for your dinner."

He said "but I need to make sure that it is spicy".
"It is the same pepperoni as always," said I.
"Yes, but how do I know that this is as spicy as the last?" he questioned.
"It comes from the same company," I explained.
"But I can't be sure that it is the same spiciness".
"Yes, but we can suspect that it has the same spiciness with a high degree of probability," I retorted, in a last, desperate attempt.

"But I cannot be sure. The only way to be sure is to taste a piece, and I need to be sure."

I gave him the damn piece of pepperoni.

All of this was followed up with a 15 minute conversation on how to distinguish a Diego episode featuring Dora from a Dora episode featuring Diego. This is, as you may suspect, crucially important, and Swiper the fox - who only appears on Dora episodes - is terrifying to Declan.

We have an odd and wonderful little boy.