The Six-Year-Old plays checkers
Although she’s only ever played checkers while waiting for a table at Cracker Barrel, my daughter is a master checker player. Typing that it occurs to…
Grandma’s Giant Box
This Christmas brought lots of gifting joy The Six-Year-Old’s way, but the present she enjoyed the most wasn’t actually for her. It was for Grandma, and…
The musical Six-Year-Old
The Six-Year-Old, pirouetting through the Room of the Very Many Couches: “Don’t mind me. I was just singing that earwig from December.” “♩♬ This is the…
The Soggy Six-Year-Old
The Six-Year-Old, stepping out of the shower: “My hair’s all wet, but my echolocation is better than ever!” Related Links: More Funny Stuff My Daughter Says…
The Six-Year-Old makes plans
Mommyo, planning a fall trip out of the city: “So we will be out in a part of Illinois where Friend N and Friend B live.…
Driving while parenting, Episode V
Mommyo, irritably, after being forced to yield inappropriately to a driver who clearly doesn’t understand the concept of right of way: “Really? You’re going to turn…
That’s going to be a problem
The Six-Year-Old, stopping suddenly in the middle of the hiking trail: “Mommyo! My imaginary tiger! He’s lost!” Related Links: Funny Stuff My Daughter Says (Caterpickles) Funny…
Overheard on a Saturday morning…
The Six-Year-Old, shouting down the hallway: “Daddyo! If Spock needs me, tell him I’m in the shower!” Related Links: Spock’s secret mission (Caterpickles) More trouble with…
The Six-Year-Old discovers Jane Austen
Mommyo, browsing around the Internet in pursuit of a suitable distraction from NaNoWriMo: “Did you know that Jane Austen has a plaque at Westminster Abbey in…
On the Road with The Six-Year-Old: Episode 5
On getting out of the car after a long drive, The Six-Year-Old, tiredly: “Daddyo, would you boost me up?” Daddyo, incredulously: “You’ve just been sitting for…
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