mama, addressing sick boy while administering herbal remedies of some sort: “blah blah blah blah blah to help you heal.”
sniffly boy: “i like the word heal.”
10-30-11
“what is fire?”
10-30-11
“the letter E has 3 crossbars and 2 canoe cracks!”
11-4-11
“i’ve got tiger spirit helpers, sabre-toothed tiger spirit helpers, woolly mammoth spirit helpers, bear spirit helpers, and wolf spirit helpers.”
mama, thoroughly humbled: “wow! tell me more!”
more of the list: “owl, crab, sea lion, lingcod, salmon, greenling, and shark. squid and shrimp. deer and elk. mountain lion. porcupine. hawk and eagle and osprey and turkey vulture.”
mama: “any plants?”
quinn: “no.”
mama: “insects?”
quinn: “sure! spider, grasshopper, centipede, ladybug, earthworm, silkworm, glowworm, praying mantis, and rooster and chicken and ‘peasant’ and goblin friends.”
mama: “trees?”
quinn:”no.”
mama: “flowers?”
quinn: “no. but i’ve got cloud men spirit helpers….”
11-8-11
“what is marrying?”
mama: (some sort of answer i couldn’t possibly repeat since i had a hard enough time answering the first time around)
“oh… well, would you want to marry me then?”
11-12-11
“it’s just that the earth that we live on keeps turning round and round like a big bus wheel.”
11-17-11
(“reading” to me from creatures of the woods book) “the east american white-heiny’d elk lives in africa, 150 million miles away…
…the italian squirrel climbs up enormous trees all the way to the top and eats acorns!”
12-7-11
What a beautiful boy!!!
"white heiny'd elk" is the best renaming i've heard in a long time. also the best laugh. i am so in love with the wisdom, magic and creativity that children naturally have in speech at this age. the best age. until the next best age comes along.
which should be shortly, considering how many spirit helpers this kid has…nothing short of amazing, straight ahead!
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😀 yes i am pleased with the lengthy list of friends he has in the animal world….
I like the word heal too ….. Do the Italian squirrels eat spaghetti and acorns?
eh, paesan!
I'm pretty sure I saw an “east american white-heiny’d elk" at the zoo which is lucky, since apparently Africa is much further away than I thought. 🙂 How lucky are we mamas?
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I like the bit about the letter E. Your kid's a cutie, smart as a whip too from the sounds of it 🙂
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Lau- Italian squirrels eat pasta fagioli!! I heart Quinn- 4 (almost 5!) is such an awesome age. They are right at the place where facts and imagination meld into perfect little "poems" 🙂 my little four year old buddy just recently saved me from '14 giant rainbow scorpions that breathed fire'. I was pretty grateful 🙂
yes, they sound terribly frightening… and pretty! 🙂
This post is just so truly wonderful — because your boy is so! I just love all the words, connections, ideas, freedom. What a beautiful vision he has.
xo,
s
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This is the best collection of simple poems I have ever read.
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Adorable. Love his enormous list of spirit helpers!
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