Enlightening Conversations

Bonnie – 4 ½ year old girl (my daughter)
Clyde – 6 year old boy (my nephew)

When these two are together… its constant entertainment. These are excerpts I overheard from their recent conversations.


Argument, Argument, Argument...
Clyde: “Fine, then I’m not going to marry you when we grow up!”
Thank God!

Super Powers
Clyde carries in a basket of "super powers."
Clyde: “Which super power do you want?”
Bonnie: “I want to make fire.”
Clyde: “No, that’s mine.”
Bonnie: “I want to fly.”
Clyde: “No, I do that.”
Three iterations of this later…
Clyde: “No, you can’t have that one. It’s for boys. Pick another one.”
Bonnie: “I want to the power to take all your powers!”
Now that’s pretty smart…

Clues
They’ve been searching for clues around the house. I’m not sure to what, but they seem to really need to find them. They keep gathering them in a dog tent in the evenings. I put them all back the next day. A fight ensued over the clues. Bonnie won the fight and had the bag/tent of clues.
Bonnie: “They are my clues.”
Clyde: “Ahhhh, I don’t have a clue!”
Must be an early symptom of his approaching teenage years…

You’re Fired
Bonnie: “You’re fired.”
This was uttered several times. There seemed to be no consistent reason.

Queen Bee
Bonnie: “I got bit by a queen ant.”
Clyde: “Maybe it was a king ant.”
Bonnie: “There is no king ant.”
Clyde: “Maybe it was a knight ant.”
Bonnie: “NO! The queen ants are the big ones. All the boys are workers. And the queen is the boss.”
Clyde: “When a girl is in charge, she’s called the queen bee.”
Bonnie: “Girls are always in charge of the boys. They tell them what to do so they’ll know.”
Clyde: “Only in ant and bee world. This is the real world.”