Friday, October 31, 2008

Glasses=male

This morning we are all preparing our costumes: Gwenchik --a witch, I am-- Facebook, with a cardboard computer cut out, and George -- domestic fairy with a wig, wings and tutu.

Gwen: Daddy, you look funny, as you are not a girl.
Me: How do you know for sure he is not a girl?
Gwen: He always wears glasses!

.......
True the majority of males around our household do wear glasses

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Geography lesson

I am tucking Gwenchik in bed.

Gwen: You are the best Mom in the whole world! No better, in the whole America! America is bigger than the whole world, right?

Monday, October 20, 2008

Koschei the Deathless

My daughter is running into the house holding a CD and is full of excitement

Gwen: Mom, there is an opera where Koschei the Deathless is singing! can you believe it, actually singing? You have to listen!
....
and than she spent the next half hour dancing and signing while listening to the opera of Koschei the Deathless -- typical bad character in Russian fairy tales.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Fair punishment

Gwen: Why do I get these strict punishments (no cartoons for a week) for really bad behaivior in school, while other kids don't. That is not fair!

After some explanation about what is or not fair and how not learning to behave properly with your teachers will have larger ramifications later in life...

Gwen: I guess, it is sort of good, that you are strict. At least I get to help with selecting the punishment, other kids do not.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Questions

Gwen: Mom, how do you know that we are not the movie?
Me: What do you mean?
Gwen: Well, are we real or something imagined by someone else, like Cinderella cartoon? She probably doesn't know that she is a cartoon if you ask her, right?