~Coupon Conversations~

January 30, 2011 Courtesy of Facebook Memories
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Car conversation w/ Eamon immediately after leaving grocery store...

Me: "AUGH!! DARN IT! (although I was thinking something much worse!)"

Eamon: "What?"

Me: "I forgot to use the coupons I had in my pocket!"

Eamon: "That is so sad, mommy!"

Am I training this kid right or what? At this rate, he's going to be just as neurotic as me in a few short years! 

~Dished Conversations~

On a lazy Saturday morning...

Me:  "Thanks for doing the dishes, bud."

Eamon:  <sighing>  "It was very difficult."

Me:  "Well, then I think you should do it more often because if you practice, it won't be as hard next time."

Eamon:  "I was kidding, it's not difficult."

Let's just say that Eamon is not as excited as this boy when doing dishes.  ;) 

~Milked Conversations~

Morning conversation with  six year old Eamon from Oct. 30, 2011, courtesy of Facebook Memories
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When I told him to get the milk out...

Eamon: "Is this the milk with fat in it?"

Me: "We're out of 2%. The skim will be fine for you today."

Eamon: "But I need milk with fat in it. You and daddy can drink the milk without fat because you already have lots of fat." 

~Smashed Conversations~

Courtesy of Facebook Memories, October 21, 2011

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~Morning conversation w/ 6 year old Eamon~                       (after having problems w/ an electrical system in our house)

Eamon: <sighing> "I think we should just smash it."

Me: <choking back laughter> "No, honey, I think we'll fix it instead."

Eamon: "We should smash it. And I know where we can get a bunch of hammers."

~Lost In Translation Conversations~

Courtesy of FB Memories October 13, 2011, musings from six year old Eamon
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~Today's car conversation w/ Eamon~

Eamon: "My friends grandparents live across the sea and speak Europe."

Me: "You mean they live in Europe? There are a lot of countries in Europe so if they live in Spain they might speak Spanish..."

Eamon: "No, mommy, people in China speak Spanish."

~Handy Conversations~

Courtesy of Facebook Memories, October 2, 2011
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After "accidentally" spilling yogurt smoothie onto his hands...

6 yr old Eamon:  <rubbing hands together>  "It's actually kind of like hand sanitizer." 

Me:  "Um, no. It's actually kind of not like hand sanitizer!"

~Third & Quartered Conversations

While discussing what Eamon learned in school today...

Eamon:  "So today, in Social Studies, we talked about the amendments."

Mark:  <knowingly> "Amendments to what?"

Eamon:  "Um, America?"

Mark:  "The amendments to America?  Are you sure?"

Eamon:  "Something about the Constitution?"

Mark:  "Ok, amendments to the constitution and then what?"

Eamon:  "Well, we had to pick an amendment and then draw a picture of it so I picked the 3rd amendment about not quartering soldiers."

Me:  "Cool!  <punnily>  But they can still be drawn, right!?"  

Eamon:  <innocently>  "I drew them being quartered!"

Mark and I:  <realization dawning>  "Wait, what?  Did you turn that in already?  We need to see that."

Mark:  <trying to choke back laughter> "Um, ok, good attempt, and good vocab skills by the way but 'quartered' has several different meanings and in that case it meant to house the soldiers.  People couldn't be forced to house the soldiers."  

Eamon:  "Oh."

Mark:  <still failing in his attempt to choke back his laughter> "Um, you're going to have to redo this.  But you should still show it to your teacher.  He'll... appreciate this."  

Aww, poor Eamon's vocab skills landed him in a little bit of trouble with this assignment.  ;) 

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, 

without the consent of the Owner,       

nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."