~Green Lantern Conversations~

This conversation was from June 25, 2011, when he was six, (after we'd visited Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC), courtesy of Facebook memories. 
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Eamon just informed me that when he feels unable to use the restroom, he just puts on his Green Lantern ring and then he's able to! I guess that ring was money well-spent after all...?

~Marital Conversations~

After attending last night's vigil for the victims of last year's Pulse night club shooting, a discussion about marriage equality came up...

Me:  "...and that's why everyone should be allowed to marry the person they love."

Eamon:  "Yeah, and people can marry tortoises too if they want!"

Me:  "NO!  No, we are not having that discussion again!  Tortoises - and pigs - are not part of the marriage equality discussion.  We are talking about one consenting adult HUMAN marrying another consenting adult HUMAN.  Got it?"

Eamon:  <grinning sheepishly>  "Yeah.  But what did you mean that we're not having that discussion again?"  

Me:  "Because we had this same discussion several years ago and you argued passionately in favor of people marrying pigs if they wanted to because pigs are really smart."

Eamon:  "I did?"

Me:  "Yes, I even wrote a blog post about it."

Eamon:  "Of course you did.  

~Pooped Conversations~

From June 8, 2011, Courtesy of FB Memories

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~This morning's car conversation~

Eamon: "When are you going to wash my water bottle?"

Me: "I just washed it this morning."

Eamon: "Well, it smells like elephant poop every day."


I can't even imagine what he was putting in that water bottle that it would smell like elephant poop.  Or that he would know how elephant poop differs from the smell of, say, emu poop?

Stumbling Conversations

From June 4, 2011, Courtesy of FB Memories

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As I was stumbling over Eamon's toys, trying to leave his room in the dark after bedtime stories.

Eamon:  "Shhh! I'm trying to have some sleep!"  

~Recorded Conversations~

From March 19, 2012, Courtesy of FB Memories

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~And now the best part of the recorder conversation~

Eamon: "This is so cool that I have TWO instruments now!"

Me: <half joking> "Maybe you could learn to play them at the same time?"

Eamon: "How could I play the drums and the recorder at the same time? B/c I need two hands for both of them. Oh, I know! I'll build two mechanical arms and attach them to my spine and use them to play one of the instruments! I just figure out how to build the mechanical arms..."

Me: "Or I was gonna' say that you could just use your feet to work the foot pedal and your hands for the recorder..."

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This was either foreshadowing his desire to be an inventor or he'd just been watching a lot of Spiderman vs. Doc Ock at the time! ;) 

~Ferreted Conversations~

After bringing home the class ferret, Khloe, I thought it would be fun to let her run around in a room with Eamon and his two sleepover buddies.  Little did I know...

Me: <watching Khloe start to pounce on and *playfully* bite the socks and pants legs of the two boys>  "Um, what is she doing?  That doesn't look like playful biting..."

Eamon:  "Oh.  Yeah, she does that at school too."

Me:  "Does what at school?  Bites people?"

Eamon:  <nonchalantly>  "Well, yeah, she's a biter."

Me:  <envisioning having to explain to the parents of the sleepover kids why they need stitches and rabies shots>  "WHAT?!  You tell me that NOW?!"

Eamon:  "I thought you knew?"

Me:  "No, I didn't know!  Boys, get out of the room NOW!  I will get her back in the ca..."

Sleepover Kid Who Doesn't Have Pets:  "I can help.  I really don't mind being bitten."

Me:  "Your mother will mind you being bitten!  Get out of the room!"

Sleepover Kid Who Doesn't Have Pets:  *sigh*  "Okay..."

Later after telling Mark about the Khloe incident...

Mark:  "You didn't know that she bites?"

Me:  "NO!  Why would I?!"

Mark:  "Well, she's a ferret.  That's kind of what they do."

And they wonder why I drink... ;) 

No ankles were bitten in the making of this blog post.

~School Break Conversations~

From February 5, 2012, courtesy of FB memories
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Me: "Sweetie, you may not know this but you have a week-long school break coming up. How would you like to spend it?  At the children's museum?"

Eamon: "The whole week...?!" 

Me: "Yeah, does that sound fun...?"

Eamon: *gasp* "I'm so happy I thought I was gonna' cry!"