My Kid Is Trying To Kill Me
06.10.07 (5:27 pm) [edit]Katie showed me her two little horses today, toys from her car.
Yellow and green. She named the yellow one "Lemon." You would assume that you know the green one's name, but you would be wrong.
After a couple guesses, she told me his name was Seaweed.
SEAWEED.
"Because seaweed is green! I couldn't name him GRASS, because THAT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!"
My daughter's sense of the absurd is highly admirable. However, I'm beginning to think this is going to turn into a Lewis Black bit about anuyrisms. One day she's gonna come up with something weird like that, my brain is going to try to figure it out, and the next morning you'll find me dead in the bathtub.
She's been a TON of fun today. We spent a while in a park and walking around a mostly dried-up creek, deep in the trees. She had a LOT to say, mostly about the waterbugs.
Then I took her to a practice for her upcoming dance recital. All the girls did GREAT. It's a fairly complicated routine they're doing, and a lot to remember for kids their age, but they did a wonderful job. It was also cool when we got there to see all these little girls calling out each other's names and running at each other for a hug before running around like lunatics together. These kids really love each other.
Meanwhile, me and MY friends still answer the phone "Hey, whaddya want, cuntface?"
Driving down the road this morning to pick her up, listening to a Zevon bootleg, I heard him sing "Send lawyers, guns and Meat Loaf."
That's stuck in my head on auto-fuck-repeat now.
Have a lovely day, ya bastards!
Love,
Dougie
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 06.12.07 (7:27 pm)
Indeed, those walks are fun. My little one loves to pick, and eat, blackberries along the way. Of course if I do not carefully watch, she will eat other things also. Obviously you have fun with her- I've no doubt she thoroughly enjoys her dad. And thus it should be.
posted by: eraserhead667 (reply)
post date: 06.12.07 (7:31 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
She's the one big ray of light in my life, utterly essential to keep me grounded. I try as much as possible to let her have equal say on our time together, and when we're outside is almost always the best. She still has a profound sense of wonder at the world, and I can regain mine for a time when I'm with her. That's important stuff.
posted by: almsthvn (reply)
post date: 06.13.07 (8:38 pm)
Seaweed!
She was SO pleased with herself over choosing that name. She went through a long string of green things and vetoed all of my suggestions (Kiwi, Broccoli, Lima Bean) and out popped Seaweed?! Ahnnk?
Goofy Kid. I LOVE her. :)
posted by: eraserhead667 (reply)
post date: 06.13.07 (8:56 pm)
It's very cool. Still, next time we go to that Chinese place, I'm gonna get a little dish of seaweed and give it to her and see how she reacts. :)
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post date: 06.18.07 (2:18 am)
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