Cailanism, Act IV
Scene 1. Cailan and Mommy are reading a book about wildflowers. The book tells what months each flower blooms in.
Mommy: Look, this flower blooms in March and April. What month is it now?
Cailan (looking at calendar): April!
Daddy: You see, Cailan, you don't have to know everything. You just have to know how to look it up.
Cailan: I do have to know everything!
Scene 2. We are eating dinner at home. We're having pasta with broccoli, capers and pine nuts. Cailan does not particularly care for capers or pine nuts.
Cailan (arranging the capers and pine nuts in an alternating pattern around the rim of his pasta bowl): I'm making my plate pretty!
Scene 3. Daddy is dropping Cailan off at daycare. Other kids come up to talk to them.
Kid 1: I went to Chuck E Cheese!
Kid 2: I go to Chuck E Cheese!
Kid 3: Me too! I go to Chuck E Cheese!
Cailan (who has never been to Chuck E Cheese, while walking over to toy refrigerator in kitchen play area): I’ve gotta check the cheese!
Scene 4. We are at a pizza place with Grandma Bobbie, waiting for our pizza to arrive. We have been talking about the planets, which ones are big and which ones are small.
Cailan (very loudly, looking right at Grandma): Uranus is very big!
Scene 5. Evening. We are in Cailan's bedroom and have just finished getting him changed into his pajamas.
Cailan (preening and patting his belly): Now I am fancy!
Scene 6. At the kitchen bar, looking at the vase of flowers we picked from our garden on Easter that are now mostly all dried up.
Cailan: Is the pink hyacinth all dried up?
Mommy: Yes, that hyacinth is dried up.
Cailan: Is the yellow tulip dried up?
Mommy: No, the yellow tulip still looks pretty fresh.
Cailan: Is the grape hyacinth dried up?
Mommy: Well, some of the little flowers around the bottom are all dried up.
Cailan: Are they called raisin hyacinths?
And, in other news, this little guy was buzzing around our garden last night and fooled me into thinking he was a hummingbird. But you were right, Mom - it was a moth after all. We do get hummingbirds here, black-chinned, broad-tailed, and rufous.
3 comments:
What great scenes! That is such a fun and innocent age. There's a huge world just out there waiting to be discovered.
We've left that age. Every conversation in our house quickly turns to farting, pooping, peeing, or vomiting. Q&A read the blog and of course their favorite was scene IV. Uranus happens to be one of their favorite topics. Apart from Uranus, way out there where the sun hardly shines, our favorite planets these days are the gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. We always have to see who can create the biggest gas giant. "Look, I think I see Saturn!!"
Shaun, I was thinking of things a little more profound. But now that you mention it, do A&Q understand the similarities between the Starship Enterprise and a wad of toilet paper?
I like playing with words, and was impressed with Cailan's "raisin hyacinths". It shows a lot of intellect for his age. Over at the Family Reunion Site, a fitting quote today is from Edgard Varese: "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
Oh, the Star Trek question? They're both going to Uranus to wipe out the Klingons.
See? My genius went out the window years ago. Cailan is our only hope.
We haven't yet explained to Cailan why Uranus is so funny. He likes to use tennis balls, soccer balls, and beach balls to mock up the planets, and today Chris proposed that they go outside and kick Uranus around the park.
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