and I’m the dad.

Yesterday I posted about Beth’s choice of names for her fish. That was earlier. The fish has been renamed several times:

And that is how it stands now: the fish is named Glorious.

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Rainbow king

Beth:	[age 3] "Luke, you're the Rainbow King and I'm the Rainbow Princess. Let's fight! I'm shooting rainbow bombs up in the sky at you!" [waves hands at the sky]
Luke:	[age 7] "I'm not the Rainbow King. I'm the Fire King. I shoot balls of fire out of my hands."
Beth:	"Maybe you're the Fire Rainbow King."
Luke:	"Oh yeah! Fire that comes in different colors! I like it! Boom boom boom!" [points hands at Beth]
Beth:	"But my rainbows can beat your fire."
Luke:	"We'll see about that."

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Making rainbows

[Scene:	Beth, age 3, is slowly moving about the room, holding a magic wand in one hand and making large, sweeping gestures with her arms; then Luke, age 7, charges into the room with a pair of toy swords]
Luke:	"Beth! C'mon, let's swordfight!"
Beth:	"No, Luke. I am making rainbows right now."
Luke:	"Well, hurry up. I want to fight."
Beth:	"We can fight when I'm done making rainbows."
Luke:	"Fine. You have two minutes! That's all!"
Beth:	"No, Luke! I need more than two minutes. You can't rush the rainbows!"

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Speaking French

Me:	“Mom and I have been thinking that we should learn French.”
Luke:	“French? Why?”
Me:	“I have a lot of colleagues who speak French, and Mom works with a lot of people from French-speaking countries.”
Luke:	“The first word we should learn is ‘no’.”
Beth:	“No, Luke! The first word I want to learn is ‘rainbow’.”

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