[watching the end of The Lion King when Simba defeats Scar]

8yo: the king has returned

6yo: and the knave is dead

I don’t have the heart to tell him

“Actually three, like in xylophone. It steals from Z too.”

6yo telling me about his dislike of the letter X because it is a “disrespectful letter”: “It doesn’t have its own sound, it just steals from two other letters”

6yo says he wants to be a lawyer when he grows up

Me: Do you know what a lawyer is?

6yo: Yes. A lawyer helps other people find loopholes. And I’m very good at finding loopholes

Just paraphrasing the story of Joseph and his brothers to the kids at bedtime and couldn’t get through it without tearing up

8yo watching Aladdin, where it’s explained that you can’t wish for more wishes: “I would wish for more genies”

We had company over this evening so she was watching with her brothers upstairs but ran out at the end and shouted down to me from the banister lol

3yo daughter now doing this thing where every time we finish a movie together and the credits song starts playing she’ll say ”Daddy, dance with me!” and pull me up off the couch to start twirling

Devil on the mountain: All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me

American evangelicals: Deal

3yo daughter has started exclaiming “what the heg!”

Anti-human, anti-life; corrosive of sociality, civility, decency, dignity, piety, and fear of God; cynically contemptuous of truth in its abject nihilism; a stain on Christian witness for those who make themselves complicit—the cancerous rot of MAGA must go.

“Rats are haters.” —3yo daughter

The Jesus of history, the Christ of faith?

“Guy who has strong opinions about the Super Bowl halftime show” is such a funny character. Best case scenario it’s a good performance and you go “that was mildly entertaining.” How do you get worked up about it on like a personal level lol

I was at a youth group SB party when the Janet Jackson thing happened lol

Missed the AI Dunkin ad, looked it up. The slop is getting desperate, it can’t carry on like this. We’re going to win this thing.

Me: why are you being fussy?

3yo daughter: it’s hard to say

3yo daughter (pointing at elderly man in a cartoon): he’s old

Me: what about me, am I old?

3yo (annoyed like I’m acting ridiculous): noooo, you’re new!

(beat)

3yo: but you’re getting old. then I’m going to need a new daddy

Kids’ illness rallying in its second week

lol that would be a good bit honestly

Definitely more uneven though (and I never finished season 5, only got a few episodes in and couldn’t do it)

I kid, I‘ll actually go to bat for season 4 to a certain extent—I’m charmed by the ambition of it and it has some killer bits

Share a TV show you love with 3 seasons or less.

Yeah he was just trying to put it in his own words but happened to land on a perfectly accurate scholastic formulation lol

Me: “It’s hard to say for sure but it’s possible that even Satan will turn back to God in the end.“

8yo: “Of course he will.”

6yo working out the Trinity in real time: “So… they’re the same THING but they’re not the same PERSON”

Me (ecstatic): “Exactly!”

6yo: “That’s super weird!”

8yo on God’s providence: “He’s playing wizard’s chess against Satan. That’s basically how the universe works.”

You ask me, the light‘s winning

Inshellah they find him