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2010-08-11 21:21 | fche blog stuart overheard

Upstairs, just after bath time for the brats, after some hallway chatter about protons and density, then:
`Enough talking about the periodic table, put on some clothes!’.

2010-03-26 00:00 | fche blog stuart questions too soon

3.3-year-old Stuart has started asking some challenging questions. They are not only difficult to explain to someone at his level in general, but also requires us to study some to brush up on the respective areas.

2010-02-23 21:35 | fche blog stuart how to find a lens cap

Consider a prized camera, being borrowed by a 3 year-old for some unsupervised roving photography all around the house. (Like his brother, he’s been self-sufficient on computers and cameras since about age 2.5, so this is not unusual here.) Listen for the shutter clicks all around as the brat roams. Relax and get back to work. An hour later, notice the camera, its job now finished, sitting someplace. Note with horror how its lens cap has gone missing.

2010-02-07 21:56 | fche blog stuart body parts

Stuart, aged 3.1, noted today that he has a “funny looking” body part, right there below his nose. We looked at it really close, and determined that yes, he has a funny philtrum.

2010-02-02 08:29 | fche blog stuart uninvited

Time’s passing rubs itself in one’s face in all sorts of ways. This morning it was the brats’ show of “appreciation” after I built a little foam/mat house for them in the basement. They moved in right away and dumped a bucketful of toys.

Since this house was larger than usual, I was able to squish in and see what was going on. I told them them about the times long ago when I and my brothers played with cardboard forts on an apartment balcony, shooting waterguns in the summer. But not for long.

ERIC
Go away please.
FRANK
Why?
ERIC
Because you’re too old.
STUART
This is for kids only. Two kids. Zero adults.
FRANK
(moping, withdraws)

2010-01-12 10:18 | fche blog stuart no more sweets for me

3.0-year-old Stuart comments:

Your bum is too fat. It is monstrous.

2009-11-28 12:34 | fche blog stuart tough discipline

A transcript of a conversation with the 2.9 year old follows.

2009-10-14 17:53 | fche blog stuart cruising

Moments ago, 2.8-year-old says:

I’m ready to go downstairs. I’ve got everything I need: the toy lawnmower, the truck, the biplane. I want to play the racing game – the two-player one. Let’s cruise!