Kids say the funniest things

[Elfmama]

Watching Lion King for the 547th time, I mentioned that Simba and Nahla were falling in love and would get married and then would make their own baby lion to complete the Circle of Life.  BabyDove (age 4.75) was indignant: "They do not make a baby lion.  The monkey brings the baby lion."  Fast forward about half an hour to the final scene where, sure enough, the baby lion is presented by "the monkey."  BabyDove turns to me triumphantly: "SEE?   THE MONKEY BRINGS THE BABY LION."

Well, of course!  There aren't any doctors, so the monkey HAS to bring the baby lion! 

[Elfmama]

My two grandsons, ages 7 and 8, have just recently gotten into archery.  Now they're arguing over who was the best archer of all time, Robin Hood or Apollo. 

I'm impressed most of my students only have the dimmest idea who Robin Hood is and wouldn't know Apollo at all

Hee!  There's a number of reasons.  We're all members of the SCA; DH does archery, and hosts the barony's weekly archery meet, so Robin Hood is really familiar to them.  Apollo is less so, but there may be two factors here.  1)We're more-or-less a pagan family*, although the Greek pantheon is not our path.  More likely, 2) they've been listening to the audiobook  of Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief.   I'm assuming that Apollo is one of the characters.

*with the exception of DH, who is Roman Catholic.

[Slartibartfast]

Babybartfast finished a week-long summer class today.  She's in a phase where she tells everyone "I love you!" when she's saying goodbye - and she was saying it to everyone.  Her teacher, her new friends, the lady who runs the program, etc.

Me: "You sure love a lot of people!"

Her: "I love everybody!"

Me: "Oh?"

Her: (with the best reflective look a not-quite-five-year-old can muster) "I guess that means I'm a lot like God."

[Nikko-chan]

Oh my goodness Slartibartfast that is so cute!

[Piratelvr1121]

So piratebabe was baptized about a month ago, which in our church means he can take communion, something he's already very into from having watched the rest of us take part in for a while.  (he's 19 months now).  Okay so how it's done in our church is we go up to the communion rail and wait until the priest either places the host on your tongue or palm, whichever you prefer.  Then someone comes by with the chalice of wine and you can either sip it or dip the wafer in it. 

Today when we went up, middle pirate knelt at my right side, piratebabe was in front of me and oldest pirate on my left.  So in order there was middle pirate's hand, mine and babe's but since babe's hand was over mine in his eagerness to get the host, our priest gave him the host first.  But then it was as though he realized he took his out of order because he put the host in my hand and then reached out his hand for his own. 

Our priest kind of chuckled, shrugged and moved back to the other side of the rail, since we were at the end. 

So not so much something he said but it did make me chuckle that he seemed to realize on his own he'd gotten his out of turn (though at his age it's not really a big deal) and fixed it by giving me his and then taking another for himself.

[crella]

Too cute!