OPERA

9.6.13

IN THE BATHROOM AT THE CHINA BUFFET, WESTERLY RHODE ISLAND.  THERE IS CANTOPOP PLAYING.

I don't like this lady music.  It sounds like opera.  They should play Gangnam Style.  Who wants to hear opera when they're pooping?

KINDERGARTEN COMPED

9.9.13

I ate in the lunchroom.  And I didn't even pay the check!

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

5.16.13

Mars is telling me about another Chickpea who takes drumming lessons.

J: Would you like to learn to play an instrument?
MARS: OK.
J: Which instrument would you like to play?
MARS: The bugle.  Get me a bugle!
J: Well...I'm not going to just get you a bugle.  If you're serious about it, we'll find a teacher too.  You have to practice and take lessons.  You need a teacher for that.
MARS: Can't we just do it online?  Watch videos.  And we can get a book like the recorder book!

PRETEND PLAY

5.18.13

Amy finds a jug of tempera paint in Mars' room.

AMY: Why is there paint in your room?
MARS: I was pretending it was beer.

BILINGUAL

5.18.13

MARS: Mama, do you know what the Spanish word for "burrito" is?
MAMA: No. What is it?
MARS: Same as English.  "Burrito. "

WHERE IDEAS COME FROM

2.12.13

There is a rental truck parked in front of the house.

M: Baba what kind of truck is that?
J: A rental truck.  Like for moving stuff.
M: Do you want a truck like that?
J: Not really.  Why would I want a truck like that?
M: For spying.
J: What?
M: You could pretend to deliver things and hide in the back and spy on people.
J: Where did you come up with that idea?
M: In my good good brain!

BABIES OF CONCERN

January 7, 2013
Mars:  I'm going to have a baby because I have big nipples and I don't want to have a baby!

OH THE PRESSURE

1.2.12

J: So, are you gonna sleep in your own bed tonight?
M: No.
J: Why not?
M: Too much pressure.
J: Too much pressure?  What kind of pressure?
M: Sleeping pressure.