One of Isaac’s friends is having a birthday party soon, so Isis and I ask Isaac what his friend likes:
“I don’t know. All I know is he likes Minecraft and Kit Kats, so maybe like a Minecraft toy and some Kit Kats?”
When pressed for more:
“Oh, he also likes mayonnaise. And ice cream. Maybe we could buy some KitKats and mayonnaise and make a Minecraft sword out of that?”
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After playing at a claw machine arcade in Vegas:
“You know what would be a good idea? If we converted my room to be a claw machine arcade. We could invite people in to play on the machines and we would make a lot of money.”
“In our house?”
“Yeah, that way, we already have a place to store the claw machines and already have outlets for them too.”
“But they would be in our house.”
“Yeah, then we can charge them an admission fee too, and then we can trap them until they give us all their money.”
“Isn’t that just kidnapping?”
“No, they would be able to play the claw machines.”
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Every night before bed, I ask Isaac if he’s brushed his teeth yet.
“No, but Naja hasn’t brushed her teeth yet.”
“I was asking about you.”
“But Naja hasn’t either.”
“Does her teeth-brushing status impact you in some way?”
“Yes. If she hasn’t done it, why do I need to do it?”
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I occasionally play Roblox with Isaac, although the last time I had been able to was about six months ago. We played this game called Tower Heroes, where you use specific “heroes” to defend objectives – it’s a tower defense game.
I play the game just to spend some time with Isaac and to be involved in something he enjoys, but I don’t think or talk about the game if we don’t play, meaning that I haven’t thought about the game in six months. Isaac, similarly, has moved on to other games in Roblox and hasn’t played the game either for about as long, but then, one day, out of the blue:
“Daddy, who do you think is the best hero in Tower Heroes? I think it’s Scientist.”
“Uhh, why are we talking about this?”
“I was just thinking about Tower Heroes. Can you play with me some time again?”
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This came out of the blue. I have no context whatsoever and we were not talking about anything remotely related to this either. Annnnd, no one was sick and it was a Saturday.
“Daddy. If you transfer me to another home, I think I can myself fake being sick.”