Nathaniel Rateliff’s song S.O.B. is playing in the car.
H: Is this song called SOB?
A: No, it’s called Son of a Bitch.
Watching a survival documentary on National Geographic…
“This program contains images of tribal nudity”
Moments later
Kids: Eeeeeewww!
A: He ate a beetle larva!
H: He ate that cause he’s in nature, and there’s no food when you’re in nature.
We bought A a new game for his Switch (Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze) for being so good in school. He says..
A: This is the best present ever!
Me: Better than your sister?
A: No, she’s still in the lead.
Black Ice
Driving home during a snow day. Called my mother to tell her the schools were closed. As soon as we hang up, A asks…
A: Why did G-mo say not to hit a black guy?
Me: Black ICE! ICE!
Sweet Potato
A dipped a french fry in his milkshake. “Look, H! I made a sweet potato!”
Playing at the park for the first time since March, 2020.
H: Daddy, daddy! A kid said hi to me!
Pop Music Survey
Decided to enroll A in a survey course of pop music and I am the instructor. His reactions:
Lady Gaga: Isn’t it weird that Lady Gaga says I want your disease?
Mikey Cyrus: Good.
Niki Minaj: Play that one again.
Carly Rae Jepsen: That was fun.
Meghan Trainor: Dad, this is so boring.
H, breathlessly: We found a moth in the house but moths can’t go outside right now cause it raining and his wings get wet like a fairy and he won’t fly so we keeping him safe inside the house now…in A’s lunch box.
Proud
A was beaming with pride this morning when he beat the first “boss level” in Super Mario Bros.