By ‘Lil Bug @ 4.5yo
Alien Pusheens and Pusheen House
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//“Crazy Music” Lullaby
//At bed time, Lil’ Bug asked me:
“Crazy Music?”
(see recent posts–also a ROM rip of it.)
I answered “No, it’s bed time,” and she was instantly downcast and cried.
I offered to make a lullaby of it and tried, just singing “Doot-dee-doot-dee..” and she absolutely lit up.
I sang it in a rocking chair to her in my arms and she laughed, which made me laugh, which made her laugh, and put us in hysterics.
It was not a lullaby.
No, I won’t..
//..follow Jesus! I’M MAD!
– Lil’ bug, commenting on illustrations of Jesus, during a long pause after we took the sacrament at home.
Good Night Dora and Boots
//Lil’ Bug climbed up to me and tucked these figurines into my shirt as she recited fragments of nursery rhymes, then told them good night.
How To Break Your Parents
//Lil’ Bug @ 21 months, wailing in her crib alone at bed time:
BUT I DON’T YIKE TO SLEEP! AND I WANT TO HOLD MY MAMA A WHILE! AND I WANT DADA! AND KISTEN! AND NOMI! AND CAZY MUSIC! AND I WANT MY FOOD! . . . And I have a poop. In my diaper. In my pajamas.
“Crazy Music” (from EARTHBOUND video game)
//Lil’ bug always requests playback of this track from the soundtrack of the Super Nintendo video game “EARTHBOUND,” which track a ROM ripper titled “Buy Somethin’ Will Ya?” because it is music in the shops scattered through the game. I don’t know how to characterize the music. Fun bluegrass?
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//Our newest little one (who at this writing is ~7 months old, and I have neglected to yet give her an alias here as my other kids have them–it isn’t fair–and I’ll just call her “Little One for now) sat on the kitchen floor with two toys in hand. From accross the room Tia asked her: “What do you have there?
Little One computed the question, paused, held up one toy, looked at Tia, and enthusiastically explained: “Da da da da da da da da da da!”
Baby Girl 08-18-18 8 AM
//If you’re seeing this syndicated see the post at the link for three pics.
Child birth is so dang heroic (and I was so impressed with Tia).
My heart breaks for those who want it and must wait for another life. Your want for it answers the question of the existence of a creator (who grants us divine want), and your creator will answer for your want.
Okay. But look at this one.
//Me: Are you doing those things on that list–are you praying every morning?
Mago: Yes.
Me: I may have told you this before, but you know, when you were very young, you were very sweet and kind — and my influence has wrecked a lot of that. My arguing, my fighting with Mom, our fighting–it’s had a very negative effect on you. So every morning when you pray, you need to pray for a gentle, kind, thoughtful spirit.
Mago (sincerely): Okay. But look at this one.
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Observe light from transdimensional stasis
//Mago: Dad, you know the “slow mo guys” on youtube?
Me: Yes, they’re stuff is–
Mago: So their fastest video yet captured at 320,000 frames per second, and created 9 hours of footage.
Me: Yeah, so I saw.
Mago: Maybe in a few years they’ll be like “Yeah, just a few million frames per second.” What if they could capture light in slow motion?
Me: To do that, they’d have to go faster than the speed of light, and even to approach a fraction of the speed of light would cause huge problems–you know that an object moving at the speed of light attains infinite mass. It would destroy everything.
Mago: So watch light from trans-dimensional stasis! (laughs)
Naomi and Maia –
//I learned how to make an animated gif in photoshop so I could share this treasure. Feb 2008
Getting out into nature
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We hiked to Stuart Falls on the 4th of July with cousins, mostly for the beauty of nature but also in order to deny the existence of any parade. Friday, we went to Provo Falls in the Uintahs and it was so pretty. I remembered my Camera but forgot my memory card. Still trying hard to be outside with my kids, I took them to float on pool rafts in Deer Creek Reservoir. They were excited to do this, but when we got there they didn’t like the dirty water or the rocky beach. Still we got an hour of entertainment out of our $10 parking fee …sheesh. Afterward Mago said, ” I want to just throw this whole lake in the dump!” and Nem nem said, “Yeah, or the graveyard!” They did say they would like to go out on it in a boat, though.
Nemmy’s canopy drape over her bed is a caniky, and a bikini is a vikini. A few days ago she found an earwig climbing her caniky when she woke up and now she keeps waking me up at night with imagined bugs.
In our backyard this evening I saw three baby deer drinking milk from their mama. I ran for my camera but missed it. My neighbor said he saw 8 babies all together one morning recently. I need to spend more time out there.
Children May be Present
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I am reminded of a horror story I heard where a child pushed a wrong button and deleted an entire blog, of so many dearly beloved and sorely missed posts.
I suppose the timeout to a password-locked screen-saver isn’t soon enough here..
For a Windows login where a child can do absolutely anything on a computer, but it’s all virtualized outside the “real” file system, and perfectly reverted at reboot, this “Clean Slate” tool looks great. Too bad they don’t have an affiliate link sales program or that would be an affiliate link 🙂 and I’m amused by their picture of a computer’s worst enemy.