How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #23

P= Parent
C= Child

C: Mama, do you have a penis?
P: No.
C: Why?
P: Because I'm a girl.
C: And papa's a boy?
P: Yeah, papa's a boy.
C: No he's not.
P: He's not?
C: No. He's a Dult!
P: I guess he is adult too.

How to Argue With a Pre-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #22

P=Parent
C=Child

P: (singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in its entirty, ending with "You'll go down in his-to-ryyy!"
C: I don't want to go down in history.
P: Why not?
C: Because. The history books will eat me.
P: Why would the book eat you?
C: I don't know.
P: I don't think a book will eat you.
C: The reindeer will eat me!
P: Nooooo.... reindeers eat carrots!
C: Why?
P: I don't know, I think because they ate carrots in the cartoon?
C: Reindeers eat carrots!
P: Yeah!
C: Bunnies eat carrots too!
P: That's right!
C: Why?
P: Because, carrots are yummy. Are you cool with going down in history now?
C: No.
P: That's too bad. But it's really out of your control.
C: Why is it out of my control?
P: Because it's up to the people of the future what they write in the history books.
C: I don't like history books.

Book Review: I am Blop!

I picked up this book at the Iowa City Library, because I recognized the author as being the one who wrote Press Here, a book my infant  loved so much that we had to buy a new copy when he became a toddler!
Since we've had it on loan from the library, my son wants to read it almost every night. And some nights, he's just content looking at it all by himself.
We've also been able to get him to eat foods by calling them "blops". Like, yogurt blop with pear sauce blop on top!
And we talk with him about when blop fell, blop went plop and other silly things that 3 year-olds love to talk about.
In conclusion, If you have a toddler or pre-school-aged child, bop to the store to buy the Blop book!