January 2011
18 posts
December 31,2010
“This is the worst day ever. I can’t even put the tape in the recorder.”
December 2010
17 posts
December 30, 2010
“Mom. Do you have any crabs? Why is that funny?”
-Playing Go Fish at dinner with me, Mames and Zaeds.
December 27, 2010
“Dad, it used to be Mom’s birthday. Quit bossing her around.”
December 23, 2010
“On Jackson, on Michael, on Vixen, on Rudolph.”
December 22, 2010
“Yay! Joe and Jared can be in the Army!”
Pipes was watching C-SPAN’s coverage of the repeal of don’t ask don’t tell. She asked, I told (explained).
December 21, 2010
“Everyone always has to finish what they start.”
-trying to convince me to let her finish watching Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman on the computer. She’s not allowed anymore TV or computer today due to her extremely sour disposition.
December 18, 2010
Pipes: Who is this playing piano so good?
Me: John Tesh.
Pipes: How cool is John Tesh?
Pipes’ Dad: Not very.
Pipes: Oh, Dad.
Q&A 1.0
Pipes’ Quotes reader number 627182318273681724 (so mysterious!) has submitted our first question. This is very exciting, folks. I asked her in the car last night while we were driving around the Laurelhust neigborhood looking at x-mas lights. And, you should know (or not, really) that I texted her answer to myself as she was talking and which made me car sick. I had to be rushed home...
december 13, 2010
“Dad, how old do I have to be when I can have a boyfriend? 60? 70?”
December 9, 2010
“Lydia told me she’s pregnant.”
(Lydia’s 5)
December 8, 2010
“Well, if you’ve got high hopes, you’ve got high hopes.”
-After she beat me at dradel and won herself some chocolate.
again with the december 6, 2010
“You don’t give me love, either.”
But first there was this:
Pipe’s dad: Where did this vase come from?
Me: I brought it with me to see Vi. I wasn’t sure which vase the flowers would fit in.
Pipe’s dad: Well, I’ve never seen it before.
Me: We’ve had it in the cupboard. You know why you’ve never seen it?
Pipe’s dad: No
Me: Because...
december 6, 2010
“Smell my hands. They smell like grandma litter. Eeww.”
-After she took a whiff of the hands that she had just been wiping all over the hallway guard rails in the nursing home where our next door neighbor, Vi is convelessing. And I did smell them, and if there was such a thing as grandma litter, that’s what her hands smelled like. She held them over her head the whole car ride...
december 6, 2010
“How did you know that? You’re like a super hero with visions.”
-said when I told her that I knew the Christmas tree she was looking at was fake.
december 4, 2010
“Well, that’s mysterious.”
When she discovered that Barbie 239 had moved from the sarcophagus in which she lay the night before. Pipes mummified Barbie with masking tape, from blonde head to pointy toe, had her father draw an “Egypt Guy” on a piece of paper she used to cover the overturned baby doll cradle that became the tomb, and wanted to see what would happen...
december 3, 2010
“Coffee?” she asked her dad while she snapped her fingers and pointed at his full cup of guess what.
December 2, 2010
Pipes: Did you know some people don’t celebrate Channukah?
Her Dad: I didn’t celebrate Channukah when I was a kid. Your mom did though. I’m not Jewish.
Pipes: YOU’RE NOT JEWISH?!
Her Dad: No, but your mom is. And you are.
Pipes: Oh yeah. And Lubey-Loo*, he’s British.
*nickname for the dog, Lucas, who is actually Australian.