September 2006
Monthly Archive
Run! It’s your grandchildren!!
Posted by John on 10 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: heard
(singing) “…promote the general welfare a-and, secure the blessings o-of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity…”
- Emily, singing the Preamble of the US Constitution to herself
“Emily? Do you know what ‘posterity’ means?”
- Daddy, sensing a teachable moment
“Uh… no.”
- Emily
“It’s those who come after us…”
- Daddy
- Emily makes a “yikes!” look…
“…like my children and my children’s children and so on.”
- Daddy, finishing his sentence and wondering what the “yikes!” look was for
“Oh… I thought someone was chasing us!”
- Emily, pointing out another meaning of “those who come after us”
Waaaaay back in the mid-1990’s
Posted by John on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: heard
While getting ready to watch The Wizard of Oz, we took a few moments (it’s only 13 minutes long) to watch the black-and-white silent-film version, circa 1910.
“Girls? How many years ago do you think this movie was made?”
- Daddy, thinking that the girls will be impressed when he tells them the answer of “almost 100 years ago”
“It was probably back in 1996 when they only had black-and-white TV.”
- Emily, showing an 8-year-old’s complete lack of scale (She was born in 1997!)