Michael: “Daddy? Can I have some cat ovals?”
Daddy: “Cat ovals?”
Michael: “Yes.”
Daddy: “I don’t know what cat ovals are.”
Michael: “They’re cat ovals.”
Daddy: “That doesn’t mean anything to me. What are cat ovals?”
Michael: “caaaat… oooh… vuhls!“
Daddy: “I heard you just fine the first time. But what is a cat oval?”
Michael: “They’re yummy.”
Daddy: “I’m sure they are. But what are they?”
Michael: “They’re black, and there’s frosting near them…”
Daddy: “And they’re oval?”
Michael: “Yes.”
Daddy: “Oh, you mean Oreos?”
Michael: “Yes, Oreos.”
Daddy: “Okay.”
Michael: “Thank you.”
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September 11th, 2009 - 10:48 am
I still want to know what "natures" are. Still a mystery!
September 11th, 2009 - 11:42 am
Wow, I never would have guessed that one. You're a genius.
September 11th, 2009 - 12:13 pm
@wife — that's one to put on the list to ask God when we get there. Outside of that, we'll never know.
@Melisa — Nah, he's just so thoroughly warped my thought processes by now that I tend to think like he does.
September 11th, 2009 - 3:06 pm
Kid-speak is always funny. I still can't make the connection from cat ovals though.
September 11th, 2009 - 3:59 pm
@WeaselMomma — he comes up with some real doozies. In this case I had the advantage of some context; his sisters had recently plundered the bag of them.
September 12th, 2009 - 9:39 am
The thing is, Michael has known his shapes for years now so why would he refer to something round as being as oval?
Therein lies the mystery to this gramma.
Also how does cat figure in?
Expliquez-moi, s'il vous plait.
September 12th, 2009 - 11:39 am
Michael identifies things (and people) by a visual description of what he sees. His favorite blanket he calls blue; instead of Great Grandma M it is that old lady who lives over there (and he points). Your cat is black and oval and oreo sound similar. When does he ask for natures?
September 12th, 2009 - 3:09 pm
I get the oval part – but the cat part has me stumped!
September 13th, 2009 - 8:28 am
I thought maybe he had been eating the cat food. Oreos are much better.
September 14th, 2009 - 7:38 pm
kids do really do say the darnedest things. The real question is, does he eat the frosting first?
September 15th, 2009 - 5:07 am
Wow… Good thing you got him to describe them because I never would have figured out cat ovals!!
September 15th, 2009 - 7:33 am
@Mom — It's the picture on the package. The tilt of the cookie makes it look oval. Plus the fact that we'd called them "Oreo", which sounds somewhat like "Oval" (a word he already knows) sews it up for me. La vous allez.
@Grandma K — He was asking about his natures probably two years ago. He went through a period where he demanded to know where his "natures" were, and none of us had a clue what he was talking about. not a clue.
@Seashore — I think it's because they're black and "fuzzy" like our cat.
@Otter — he probably is eating the cat food. and he probably likes it better than Oreos.
@Scott — we have not graduated to proper Oreo technique yet. I'll probably enroll him in Oreos 101 next year.
@Liz — he's gotten better about being descriptive, that's for sure.
September 24th, 2009 - 5:51 pm
Michael is unique. That’s all there is to it. And you must be unique, too, for figuring out what he meant.
(MD) I hope “unique” is a good thing. There’s definitely a lot of uniqueness here, that’s for sure.