OMGWTF conversations with my daughter.

[rivka]

Alex: Tell me a story about me and Nick and Allie.
Me: One day, Alex and Nick and Allie wanted to do something really special. So they decided to...
Alex: (with great glee) They decided to dig up CHILDREN'S BONES!

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[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

HEEEE!




Have you been to an archaeology or paleontology museum lately?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

We go to the Science Center pretty frequently.

The last time we went, we discovered that they have a pile of child-sized human bone replicas that you can put together. I'm pretty sure she put the memory of those bones together with a previous story I told about her and her friends digging up a dinosaur skeleton and donating it to the museum.

I hope so, anyway. The alternatives are horrible to contemplate.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

she's either going to be a serial killer or else a forensic anthropologist.

i suggest buying her lots of books about dinosaurs now if not sooner.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Or a goth. ;->

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

I took her shopping yesterday for snow boots, and while we were in the shoe store, she insisted in being allowed to try on black sparkly Hello Kitty ballet flats. If she's going to be a goth, she's going to be a "perkygoth", I think. :)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Hey, those are pretty spiffy!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Michael pointed out that "digging out their bones" used to be a euphemism for flaying heretics. So she's got that career option ahead of her too.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

She could become a criminalist.

[melebeth]

*giggle*

Seriously, what on earth has she been reading?

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Jack and the Beanstalk?

[melebeth]

Mmmmm. Bone bread! My favorite!

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I haven't been babysitting Alex. Usually I'm the prime suspect when kids of my acquaintance start talking about buried bodies ;-)

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Me too.

Whenever parents I know look at each other and say 'where on earth did *small child* learn that!?!' I tend to be onhte short list of suspects.

Every child deserves a crazy aunt who will teach them rude songs, right?

[meglimir.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, I'm pro'ly a bad mom then. I taught my kids the rude songs m'self. Their aunt taught 'em to belch.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel better about Leif's endless "Buckets of blood" knock-knock jokes.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

My first thought was, "She's been reading original Grimm!"

Though I don't know if they actually mention digging up children's bones...

N.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That story telling style, where you leave space for the kid to fill in the blanks, is the one that we like best in our family. I used to sit on the floor in the hallway between my kids' rooms and tell them stories just like that. And my dad before me, and his dad before him.

K.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Oh. So she wanted NON-fiction story time, then.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

You have the best stories!

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

Your daughter always makes me crack up when I read your posts about her. She truely is an old soul.

[http://users.livejournal.com/oh_johnny_/]

Hee! You might want to keep an eye on Alex, Nick and Allie when they're a little older and off playing by themselves, although I suppose as long as they're not *burying* children's bones it's not as bad as all that :-)

[robyn-r.livejournal.com]

No idea where they get this stuff. Our 2 year old last time at Grandpa's house was playing with some toy 'Bob the Builder' tools.

One of them is a saw, very plastic, very dull. She walked up to where I was sitting on a chair with my feet up and began sawing away at my leg after solemnly announcing "This leg will have to come off!"

[ailbhe]

That would freak me out a little. Linnea recently drew a picture of a lion eating a lady all up. ALL up.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I'm pretty sure that Alex has no conception whatsoever of death, much less that finding someone's bones means that they've died and rotted. To her, it was just an interesting extension of digging up dinosaur bones.

Although, yeah, even knowing that it's still a bit creepy.

[ailbhe]

It doesn't really help me that Alex (or Linnea) doesn't know what it's about, because I still do, and unknowing it is hard. Knowing she doesn't know makes it easier not to worry about it, but doesn't do much about the little shudders.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Bwa!!!!