“I guess that’s good for the bus.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. If you want to kill the demon king, you can’t shoot his heads. They grow right back.”<\/p>\n
“Right. If you want to kill the demon king, you need to shoot him in…”<\/p>\n
“His belly button! That’s pretty silly.”<\/p>\n
“I guess. But it’s important. So remember that, the next time you run into a ten-headed demon king.”<\/p>\n
“I will. You can do it, too. If you run into a demon, you could take the sword that Mommy gave you, and stab him in the belly button. Then you could clean the sword, because it would have blood all over it, and put it back in the case for next time.”<\/p>\n
“Um, right. The next time I run into a ten-headed demon king. Do you see a lot of demons around?”<\/p>\n
“Well, we ran into one when we were flying in the bus. But the driver let me use the weapons, and I shot him. Right in the belly button!”<\/p>\n
“Your flying shcool bus has weapons?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. It has swords and bow and arrows and daggers and even guns and stuff. There’s a room at the back with all the weapons in it, and all the kids get to go in there and practice using the weapons.”<\/p>\n
“That sounds like some bus, all right. And this is the bus you ride to school every day?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. Well, not this Monday, though. They need to work on the flying bus on Monday, so we have to ride just a regular bus.”<\/p>\n
“Well, those flying buses do need a lot of maintenance…”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. It has four wings, but they need to fix two of them, and put some other ones on instead. So we’ll be riding a regular bus to school on Monday.”<\/p>\n
“Once they fix it, though, you’ll have the flying one again, right?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah.”<\/p>\n
“That’s pretty awesome. I didn’t know about that; thanks for telling me.”<\/p>\n
“You’re welcome. And remember, shoot the demons in the belly button.”<\/p>\n
“Got it.”<\/p>\n
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The Pip was sent home from day care yesterday with the bug of the moment, so I’m home with him today. The timing couldn’t be worse, because Kate has an argument in a court in Rochester, so she was away overnight, meaning I’m temporarily a solo parent.<\/p>\n
Happily, Il Duderino has been in a remarkably good mood, not obviously miserable. But I’m way short on both sleep and time, so no heavy physics blogging. Instead, you get this rough transcription of a conversation with SteelyKid this past weekend. Because she’s awesome:<\/p>\n
And just for balance, here’s The Pip working on his unique artistic vision:<\/p>\n “Daddy, you know what? I bet you didn’t know, but my school bus can fly.” “Really? I didn’t know that.” “Yeah, there’s a button up at the front with a picture of a flying bus, and if you press the button, the bus flies.” “That’s amazing.” “Yeah, and guess what? The other day, the bus… Continue reading The Flying Bus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sm_steelykid_pose\"](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/01\/sm_steelykid_pose.jpg\")
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