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  • Speaking Americanally

    Norb, holding up a card: “Do you know this language?”

    Papa: “Yeah, it’s the language we speak, English.”

    Norb: “No, we speak American!”

  • 4046

    Norb: “Was I in your tummy in 4046?”

    Papa: “Uh…that hasn’t come around yet.”

    Norb: “Is that next month?”

  • Condruplement

    Norb: “What’s one hundred million condruplement plus…”

    Papa: “That’s not a number.”

    Norb: “One hundred million condruplement is behind your age.”

    Papa: “One is ahead of the number of brain cells you have.”

    Norb: “I have so many brain cells.”

    Papa: “Zero is not so many.”

    Norb: “I have unlimited.”

  • Cat-Dogs

    Norbert: “Are raccoons cats or dogs?”

    Papa: “Neither. They’re raccoons.”

    Norbert: “…cat-dogs?”

  • Ghostbusters Metaphysics

    Norbert: “Can ghosts touch demselves?”

  • Mouse Eggs

    Norbert, after crouching in the driveway picking up unidentified tiny objects and depositing them in a small box: “Der! I fink dese are tiny baby mouse eggs. We can hatch tiny baby mouses from dem.”

  • Short Sleeve Pants

    Norbert, putting on shorts: “I’m naming these ‘short-sleeve pants’!”

  • Tomato Alert

    Norb, looking at the weather map: “There’s a tomato getting close to our house.”

  • Termado

    Norb, on hearing the Sat. siren test: “TERMADO!”

  • 3yo Cynic

    Norb (3), singing “…maybe we should compromise…”

    Margaret (15): “Do you know what ‘compromise’ means?”

    M: “It means ‘halfway happy.’”

    N: “No! It means ‘crying!’”

    N: “…”