Aaaand a bonus Alex bon mot.

[rivka]

My mother gave Alex some wooden fruits and vegetables for her birthday. They're held together with Velcro, and they came with a wooden knife that can be used to "cut" them into pieces. The wooden knife has quickly become a prize possession.

At dinner tonight, Alex remarked, "My knife is made of wood." Then she reached out with one finger and touched the handle of my steak knife. "Your knife is made of sharp."

Comments

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

ianhickson and i will discuss the child we want in terms of "that's the model i want" for happy smart smiley kids or "can we please not order that model for the other type... (knowing of course that we will love what we get when the time comes.)

just thought you would like to know i showed him the last two posts. we concur... we want your model of kid.

:-D

[aloha-moira.livejournal.com]

... and this post is made of win. :)

[melebeth]

Me too. Can we bulk order Alexes?

[cchopps.livejournal.com]

I second that!

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Alex is so very cool!!! :)

I love those sliceable wooden toys. I just recently discovered sliceable wooden Jewish holiday foods online too--I can't decide whether to get Tamsin sliceable wooden challah or a Chanukah set with a wooden afikomen matzoh that you can break into two and reassemble! Hee! They even have wooden matzah balls!

someone has to say it

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

No, this knife is made of sharp!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's a Nancy Kress story about that. I think it may be called "Mollie". The little girl whose parents are selling her clones certainly is.

[samtosha.livejournal.com]

AWW.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Here's an icon for her LJ. She hasn't posted in a while, you know. :-D

[txanne.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it, but I'll say it anyway: ...and Alex is made of awesome.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee! I thought of that after I made this post. She's speaking Internet. Where'd she learn that?

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Kid's a natural poet.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Your kid is made of sharp.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Okay, I pride myself on having a relative amount of clue about Jewish matters, for a goy. So I have to ask... afikomen matzoh in a Chanukah set? Have I missed something important?

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Nope, I am an ass. I started that sentence about the Chanukah set (which has a menorah and a little wooden wine goblet for Elijah), got distracted by all manner of chaos here and then came back about a half hour later and wrote about Pesach instead (because we were talking about sliceable food and there was nothing sliceable in the Chanukah set). This is why I never blog anymore. It's hard to write anything coherent when you only can get a half sentence out every half hour.

So yes--sorry. You are right, I am wrong. Apparently, "sliceable" trumps "proofreading" in my brain.