Boy Quotes
Holiday Edition
Shazam!–Playing a boardgame with his brothers and dad–“Mom, can you come and rub the dog’s armpits so that I can concentrate?” Yes, our Nessie Karu is very fond of armpit scratches!
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I make Ginger Punch, an amazing Korean Holiday drink that we got from our camp intern Epona’s mom. Everyone loves this sweet and spicy alternative to cider that fills the house with the scent of ginger and cinnamon. However, it does encourage violence! We have three sons, a brunette, a blond, and a redhead. As they get mugs of ginger punch I invariably hear, “Ginger Punch!” as one of his older brothers punches our youngest (the redhead) or “Ginger Punch!” as our redhead attacks a brother. Drama and Christmas cheer, ha!
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Ragnar–On our pre-mother’s-day hike–“Quick, push her! It’s not mother’s day yet!!!”
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During our family vacation to North Cascades National Park this summer, the boys brought out the classic thought experiment about Theseus’ Ship and if it is still Theseus’ Ship if each part is replaced over years and years. They then proceeded to argue this brain twister for over fifty minutes on our drive . . . and then brought it back up on the drive back. With a few quirky additions from Scruffy. “If Theseus’ ship was made entirely of Big Mac hamburgers and each day you replaced one of them with a Whopper, would it still be a Big Mac?”
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Boy Quotes “Normal Addition”
Scruffy–“A calzone is a pizza.”
Ragnar–“A calzone is a subspecies of a pizza, but not actually a true pizza . . . just like a jellyfish.”
Scruffy–Look of bafflement
Ragnar–“A true jellyfish has both a polyp stage and a medusa stage. A false jellyfish only has one.
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Shazam!!!–Playing video games–“I am full of woe!!!
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I read the boys a funny quote from a romcom I was reading where the heroine is being “hunted for food” by a cougar. We laughed so hard. The author clearly knew nothing about cougars. I always share unrealistic wilderness scenes with the boys.
Ragnar–“You should write complaining letters. You shoud do a TedTalk, Mom!” About the lack of reality in writing about freezing to death and being devoured by wild animals.”
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Shazam!–Shouts very unrealistic dialoge at full volume while playing video games–“Why me!!! Why me?!?!
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Scruffy–“Do we have ham?”
Ragnar–“I couldn’t chip it out of the freezer. It was entombed in ice!”
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Shazam!–Playing video games with his brothers–“Don’t worry, I have a rich man’s blunderbust.”
