Overheard Outtakes 2014

Those who get our Christmas letter will know that we include funny quotes from the boys

also rejected for the family Christmas card

during the year.  We capture more than we can use.  We used to have a lot we couldn't use; this year, three quotes made the draft stage but failed to make the final cut.  I present them here for your amusement:

C: The [Star Wars animated] Rebels episodes are only 3 minutes long because they haven’t aired yet, according to the red-headed kid at Toys ‘R Us.

After a Little League game:

J: Who won?

T: We did.  We’re undefeatable.

To Teddy during a dispute while playing:

C: When you grow up, if you throw something at someone, you could go to jail.  If you throw scissors at someone, you’ll get a three-day suspension.”

 

A Window into the Child Care Day

We're supposed to be able to track important milestones in the Parent Report we get twice a year from Teddy's childcare center, but fortunately, the teacher who wrote his most recent one also has a great sense for the absurd things 4- & 5-year-olds say. The anecdotes section had lots of highlights.

A few excerpts:

Holden: Let me look in her eye
Teddy: Holden, maybe something is in her belly.
Holden: Let me check her eye.
Teddy: I already did. There's nothing there.
Holden. Okay.
Teddy: Now I need her blood pressure. Okay her legs. Okay. I'm gonna cut her hair.
Holden: You do that too?
Teddy: Yeah. I'm a hair cutter, dentist, doctor.

Teddy: Everybody got Tom & Jerry tissue packs from the Easter Bunny. My cousins, and my brother, and me, cause the Easter Bunny's dumb.

Teddy: Vietnam was really far. It took nine or ten minutes.