A story about my 3 year old

[Frylock]

Here’s something my wife just wrote:

The Mind of a Three-Year-Old

Today we’ve sold our couch and our TV cabinet and our coffee table. This leaves us sitting in beach chairs staring at a borrowed TV on the ground. Jacob is enjoying the whole set up immensely! The TV will be put on top of Jacob’s little table, but not until Kris and Ella get backfrom their walk.

Jacob says, “Can I watch TV while Ella’s walking?”
“I wish you could, sweetheart, but it’s not plugged in.”
“Well, can you get it plugged in?”
“No, honey. It’s too heavy. We have to wait for Daddy. I’m too little to pick it up.”
“Okay, then let’s sing the birthday song. Do it to you, Mommy.”

I oblige, singing, “Happy Birthday, Dear Mommyyyyyyy…”

Jacob says, “Okay! Now you’re 10! Now you can pick up the TV!”

-FrL-

[ivylass]

Oh, that’s hysterical. Gotta love the logic! And why did he think Mommy was 9? Or are 10 year olds able to do anything and everything?

Tell your wife Happy Birthday.

[Tenar]

Maybe ten is the biggest number he knows.

[chacoguy]

I wonder if I sing it backwards, ‘backtrack’ style, a couple of dozen times, maybe it will tone up my ‘problem areas’.

[BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed]

Oh man, I remember watching Sesame Street when I was however old, and my mom interrupted because we had to go somewhere. I was really engaged in the show, and told her to turn off the TV so I could watch it later. When she told me that it would still keep playing, I asked her to unplug it.

Maybe I thought it was trapped in the TV and slowly trickled out through the plug as it played??

[Red_Barchetta]

I remember I really, really wanted a Super Nintendo, but my parents said they couldn’t afford it. So I suggested they “write a check” since I thought it was free money or something.

[CairoCarol]

Oh that is funny. Watch out, that’s a determined child you have on your hands.

[phil417]

I saw Disney’s Sleeping Beauty when I was about six years old. A few weeks after I saw the movie, my aunt & I visited a toy store, where I saw a magic wand identical (in looks) to the wands the three good fairies in the movie used. I begged & begged for the toy wand, to no effect.

Later that day, we had a long car trip, something like 6-8 hours. “Silly grownups”, I thought, “if they’d only bought me the wand, I could do magic like in the movie & get us all home right away.”

It made sense at the time.

Love, Phil

[Kythereia]

I swear that kid’s going to be President, or a mad scientist, or something.

I was convinced for a while that my fuzzy blue slippers were lucky for the Maple Leafs. That was pretty rough when I found out.

[iamthewalrus_3]

@Red Barchetta

I remember I really, really wanted a Super Nintendo, but my parents said they couldn’t afford it. So I suggested they “write a check” since I thought it was free money or something.

I told my mom something similar when she complained about not having the money for something. Just go to the bank, they have plenty of money there.

The distinction between having a method of payment and having the necessary assets is not a simple one to understand. Arguably, a significant number of adults never manage to wrap their heads around it.