I kid around about not knowing what these things are, although I usually have a hint or a notion. Not today:
They both say "fansy what." Okay... They both have a clock face, a question mark, and what is, I'm guessing, a bulls eye. There are three icons with which I am uneducated, although they seem eerily familiar. One is what I would call an atomic symbol, a cartoon rendering of the "danger radiation" symbol we grew up with in the fifties and sixties (or is it a representation of the galaxy these little aliens came from?). The second, clearly stolen from The Masons is, I'm going with my gut here, a stylized sunrise (or is it a headless spider from Zorg?). The third, that squiggly thing, is of course the universal symbol for carbon-based life (or fuel, I always get them mixed up?).
Why!? Why this very deliberate arbtrariness? I am truly and wholly baffled. I feel like there is something very important here, some thing worth while, worth knowing. What was trying to be communicated here?
You want to know the truth? I asked them. "Cool," was Z's response, as though he'd never seen them before and N said: "I think they had something to do with time." Yeah thanks boys, now we'll never know.
I think I'll make it our new catch phrase, 'fansy what.' Works for me.
From Marci's '...things you don't expect to hear from the back seat...'
N: "I think the best word in the world is love."
Z: "Or help."
N: "Or friend."
Z: "Or poop."
N: "Yes, poop is a really good word."
Yep, we are so proud...
Fansy what!
Twelve years ago this journey began. Our twin boys were six and I initially just wrote about the cute stuff they did. In fact, the name of this blog came to be because one day I heard them chanting “ihopeiwinatoaster; ihopeiwinatoaster” over and over in the basement. Time passed, I tried to go a little deeper, say important things. However, those cute boys are at university now and their stories are their own. So, what’s an old blogger to do? Well, I guess that’s what I am trying to find out.
The word "poop" has a lot of power, along with "butt".
ReplyDeleteFor instance, to make a 6 month old laugh...
Mommy: "Alex, did you poop?"
6 month old Alex: "hehehe"
Mommy: "...from your butt?"
6 Month old Alex: "LMAO"... (well the baby version of that).