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Tuesday
Apr242007
Kid A-isms
April 24, 2007
I look up as the kids are playing a wild game of imagination, when I hear Kid A exclaim, "Uh OH! That piece of paper is your daddy!" And sure enough, the daddy in the game is a crumpled up piece of paper.
At the dinner table, Kid A asks me why there is dirt in our spaghetti. "It's not dirt," I reply. "Those are spices."
"Why are ladies' sounds bumpy?" he asks.
"I'm sorry?"
"Why do ladies' voices go like this?" (Moves his finger in a snaky shape)
"When they're singing?"
"Yeah."
"That, my son, is called vibratto."
He thinks for a minute. Then he looks at his food again. "Spices sure look just like dirt," he says. "And why does dust come out of sand?" Needless to say, I'm stumped. I just look at him and smile, and he goes off into space in something that I call the Kid A zone, which is second only to the Chinua zone.
At the dinner table, Kid A asks me why there is dirt in our spaghetti. "It's not dirt," I reply. "Those are spices."
"Why are ladies' sounds bumpy?" he asks.
"I'm sorry?"
"Why do ladies' voices go like this?" (Moves his finger in a snaky shape)
"When they're singing?"
"Yeah."
"That, my son, is called vibratto."
He thinks for a minute. Then he looks at his food again. "Spices sure look just like dirt," he says. "And why does dust come out of sand?" Needless to say, I'm stumped. I just look at him and smile, and he goes off into space in something that I call the Kid A zone, which is second only to the Chinua zone.
in Kid A
Kid A 
Reader Comments (5)
Wow! They are so amazingly observant. Ladies' bumpy voices!!
I've been visiting the same place lately too.
Bet your boy's going to write stories like his mama!:-)
Oh my...aren't kids and their fresh observations wonderful? My husband and I, although we enjoy each other very much, have decided that we laugh MUCH MORE after kids than we ever did before. I am also quite positive that we're becoming much less cynical with each passing year- a result I'm sure of pausing to chew on our kids' deep thoughts and stooping over to glimpse the world through their eyes once in a while. Kid A is brilliant- for sand is indeed very dusty, spices do look like dirt (or bugs as my girl declared as a very saucy- mouthed 4 year old), and vibratto does make us all sound pretty bumpy!
I love that guy!