Isaac suddenly said, "When I'm twenty-one, I will get everything I want."
I remarked, "Oh, everything?"
He replied, "Yes, not just cotton candy."
We're in a place called...
Isaac suddenly said, "When I'm twenty-one, I will get everything I want."
I remarked, "Oh, everything?"
He replied, "Yes, not just cotton candy."
Isaac is grieved that he is the youngest child. He is very conscious of everyone's ages, the year they're born in, and wishes he was the firstborn like his eldest brother, born in 2001.
One day, Isaac said, 'I wish I was born in 1999."
Surprised, I asked him why.
"Then I will be two years older than Matthew."
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Another day, I was driving Isaac to school when he suddenly said, "One day it will be three thousand and one."
Puzzled, I asked him, "Three thousand and one what?"
He tried to explain and I finally understood what he was trying to say. "Oh, you mean the year 3001."
"Yes," he replied, "And Matthew will be one thousand."
Isaac attended the Children's Liturgy during Mass one Sunday. They were being taught the Gospel reading about Jesus overturning the money changers' tables and driving them away from the Temple with a whip made out of cord, for turning his Father's house into a marketplace. However, as it was his first time at the Children's Liturgy, Isaac was a little shy and clingy to me, reluctant to join in the activities with the other children. It was also quite noisy with some children and even parents chatting away and not paying any attention to what was actually being taught.
The following Thursday, while we were showering him, Isaac suddenly said, "Jesus was angry at the Temple because they were making his dad's home into a marketplace. You must respect the Temple, right, we must respect his dad's home."
How does Isaac sing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'?
He goes, "Baa Baa Black Sheep, happy and you know. Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full."
Andrew asked Isaac what was seven minus nine.
Isaac thought a while and said, "Megative two."
We brought Andrew kayaking at the Kallang River. Isaac wanted to kayak as well but he couldn't as he was not yet seven.
He said, "I wish I was born in 2017, so now I will be seven and I can go kayaking."
Isaac asked me, "Why can't Kimi drink Kickapoo?"
Before I could answer, Isaac said, "I think Kimi is thinking, I can't drink Kickapoo because... I will die! So, I won't drink."
Sean told Isaac that brown cows give chocolate milk and pink cows give strawberry milk.
Isaac said, "Transparent cows give water."
Isaac asked me how many tens and ones make one hundred.
I didn't quite understand what he meant, so he clarified, "Nine tens and ten ones!"
Catching on, I asked him, "So if it is eight tens, then how many ones?"
He thought for a while and shouted, "Twenty ones!"
Isaac just said that if there's too much water in a bottle you get algae just like if there's too much mucus then you get booger.
I was leaving Isaac's room at bedtime and he asked if I was going to shower. I said I was going to wash my hair.
He said, 'Only wash your hair, not your body?'
I replied, 'I'll wash everything.'
'Your eyes?'
Among the things that Isaac likes me to do at bedtime is to sing 'Old MacDonald Had A Farm' to him. He gets to choose the animals and the noises they make.
Some of the "animals" he has chosen include plants, with a 'here grow there grow everywhere grow grow', and curtains that go 'here swish there swish everywhere swish swish'.
He has also asked for 'nothing' with a 'go away here and a go away there', and 'painting' which goes 'colour colour here and colour colour there' or 'beautiful here and beautiful there'.