Friday, March 29, 2019

7 Quick Takes about Wise Sayings Attributed to Godzilla, Important Apps for Your Smartphone, and a Pop Quiz about My Kids' Toothbrushes

It's 7 Quick Takes Friday! How was your week?

1


There's no regular Sunday sermon delivered by a minister in my church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) Instead, a few members of the congregation are asked to prepare and give talks on different spiritual topics, and this week was my turn.

I was given a reference from the Book of Mormon and the topic "the word of God." It took a while for my ideas to gel, but as I started typing out my notes, the talk started to take shape.

The thing is, every time I typed "the word of God" into the computer, the autocorrect function kept changing it to "the word of Godzilla." Which alters the meaning significantly.

2


While looking ahead in my calendar, I noticed that the 2-year-old has been doing a little dabbling in the graphite arts.

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Why he scribbled out some dates and left others alone I'm not sure, but I couldn't help but notice he blocked out our anniversary, which is June 20th.

Since the next day is similarly blocked out, I'm going to assume he's made us reservations at a nice restaurant and booked an overnight getaway for Phillip and I to celebrate.

3


My first grader was coming down to dinner and yelled "Wait! Where's my phone???" I naturally had no idea what she was talking about because she doesn't have one, but she went to go look for it, anyway.

She reappeared a few minutes later, brandishing a "phone" she made by cutting up a cardboard box and gluing a piece of paper with pictures of apps on the front.

Check out her home screen:

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There's a keyboard at the bottom, and starting at the top there's a camera, YouTube, a workout app, time, and... send a message to the president?

I don't know where her ideas come from, but if she envisions one day having a shortcut to texting the chief of state on her own personal phone, she's definitely got big plans in mind.

4


When my 14-year-old and I went shoe shopping, we didn't know quite what to say about these "statement shoes." Some things, I guess you just can't argue with.

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Accurate.

Well... yeah. If there's one thing people are, it's people. Truest statement I read in this Payless store today.

Then we moved on to another store and were looking at some flats. The pair my daughter liked came in three colors: black was called black, brown was called cinnamon, and white was called sugar swizzle.

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Don't panic, we didn't buy $50 shoes. They were on sale.

Seems like there was a breakdown in continuity somewhere along the line:

Why didn't the black shoes also get a cute name like 'charcoal' or 'eclipse?' Or why weren't they all called plain old 'black,' 'brown,' and 'white?' And what the heck is a "swizzle?"

5


I take my preschooler and toddler to a local playgroup where they free play for a while, then we all sit down for a little lesson with a related song and a craft. This week it was on brushing your teeth.

The leader was going around the circle asking every kid what color toothbrush they had at home. One of the kids wouldn't speak up so her mom said "Emily has a blue toothbrush with fishies on it!"

That's when I started to sweat.

Moms are expected to know what color their kids' toothbrushes are? I'm sorry, but I have no idea. That kind of information was forcibly shoved out of my brain about three kids ago. I know that they have a toothbrush, and that's about as involved in their dental hygiene as I can possibly be.

Luckily both boys knew (apparently their toothbrushes are red) and yelled it out when the lady got to them, so crisis averted. This time.

6


After passing the pop quiz at circle time, the kids moved on to the craft area and I really loved the activities that were set up there.

At one station, the kids used dry erase markers to "dirty up" laminated pictures of a tooth, and then scrubbed it clean with a toothbrush. Isn't that an excellent visual representation of why you should brush your teeth?

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Did not want to stop.

At the second station, they used toothbrushes to paint a giant outline of a tooth with white paint.

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My 2-year-old liked doing this so much, he painted until he tore a cavity-like hole in the tooth. This was kind of at odds with the message the craft was designed to get across, but he seemed to enjoy it, anyway.

7


Earlier this week, our family to a trampoline park. They were running a special where buying 2 hours of jump time per person was a pretty good deal, so we did that. 

It sounded like a good idea until Phillip and I dragged ourselves of the trampolines, exhausted and dying, to the relative safety of the benches on the sidelines and realized we'd only been there for 35 minutes.

It wasn't just us, either. Even the kids were tired.

Only the 2-year-old kept going strong the entire time. He reminded me of the Energizer bunny, if the Energizer bunny also pronounced 'trampoline' tamperline and had a body shaped like a Dr. Seuss character.

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6 comments:

Karyn said...

"People are People" is an old Depeche Mode song about how we should all just get along. That's my guess for the shoes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4

Jenny Evans said...

I figured it was a sentiment along those lines. Now it's just down to the mystery of the swizzle...

Diana Dye said...

Fashion industry culturally appropriating my childhood again.

Kath said...

I am so sad at the notion that my future will not include observations from you such as "had a body shaped like a Dr.Suess character". But, as you well know, I don't actually believe that anyway. I am still recommending twins. And, as you undoubtedly know as well, the longer you wait the more the likelihood that twins will happen. You can name one after me. Preferably the girl but, really, it's your call. I don't like to get pushy about people's private decisions regarding family planning or naming their kids...

Jenny Evans said...

That is true, twins are statistically more likely the older I get. So you can still make plans if you want.

Jenny Evans said...

Do kids today even know who Depeche Mode is? I bet if I asked mine they'd think I was talking about papier mache...