On the Good of Goblets

Isabella was telling me how much she liked living in Omaha, while enjoying a refreshing drink of water from one of our new glasses.
 "I mean, seriously Mom. We're much closer to the art museum and the zoo. The house is beautiful. I mean, I'm drinking out of a freaking goblet here!"

Takes One to Know One

Declan and Emily were arguing. Declan was insisting that Em was lying about something. I don't even know what about, mostly because I wasn't paying attention.

"I'm NOT!"
"You are. You are totally lying. I should know; I lie all the time."
What? I started listening a bit more closely.
"I'm TOTALLY NOT lying, Declan! I SWEAR!"
"And there you go. That's what I say every time I lie."

Great. Just great.

Parental Controls

This morning I found my son going back and forth between the computer and the Wii. He would watch a little bit of You Tube video, then click a few times in the settings section of the game console. I asked him what he was doing.

"Oh, I'm getting rid of the parental controls on the Wii."
We bought our Wii used, and so many of the settings we didn't put in place. We wouldn't have put them on in the first place, but hadn't gotten around to taking them off. So, I wasn't upset at all with him, but curious.
"Yeah? Why are you doing that? Is there something it won't let you do?"
"No, not at all. I'm doing it for Dad."
"Really?? How so?"
"The parental controls were annoying him, so I'm fixing it for him."
The eight year-old fixing the parental controls for the adult. Probably not exactly what the good folks at Nintendo had in mind...

The Simple Life

Declan informed me (as he has done before) that his pretty sure when he gets older, he's not going to get a wife or kids.
"Yeah? Why not?"
"Well, they are very expensive. If I have kids I have to buy them stuff, like beds and stuff, and if I don't have any kids then I can spend that money on stuff I want. Like motorcycles. ...I just want to live an uncomplicated life."