Rumposity.

Suzuki: Oh no, I forgot about something.
Julian: Why did you forget about it?
Suzuki: Because I have too many things to remember and not enough time to remember them.
Julian: Why don't you just quiet down your rumpus? Then you'll be able to remember things.

Thank you, my majesty.

See Mama, I built a hydro-mocanic organic water factory. It's an organic source of water. It pumps the water from the sink. [Sink begins to overflow now.] Oh my God, that did not work so well.

I can burp you right out of your pants.

Julian (in the bathtub): Can you get me a pen?
Suzuki: Why?
J: I want to draw a little something on my body. I need a permanent pen.
S: What do you want to draw?
J: A water level. So I'll know when to turn the water off.

Everybody has a plug on the top of their head.

Mama: "Julian, what do you say when someone gives you something?"
Julian: "Thank you, my majesty."

Mama, you're the cream in my butter. You're the lego in my ship. You are the elbow in my arm.

Hey Mama, "toe flutes and uilleann pipe fingers!"

(Whispering) Mama, tell her (the laughter therapist at Harbin) that the world is a big ball rolling through space on wheels!

I don't get raspberries. Because most berries have color names like black or blue, but raspberries are different.

(RE: the spiral patch that Karen put in his jeans) The patch is my secret code. There are different scanners that all scan in different ways, but they all read the secret code the same.

I'm King of the Geysers.

I don't like mirrors.

See my little (Lego) guy's jet pack? It has a hat box. He has the most unusual hat. It's a lily pad hat. He has this thing plugged into his brain.

My maneuver machine can see the farthest things ever in space. See the face on the stargazer? They're really emergency light buttons. This guy's a superhero with a big big camera.

Mama, you're in the bat-pincher mobile, I'm in the bat mobile and Baba is in the Frog Mobile. OK, get in your mobiles!

If you don't get my jokes, I won't get your jokes.

Post from the Island of Armpit Vacuums

They have GIANT flutes on Pluto. It takes lots of Plutonians to play it. One blows and someone else plays the keys.

I'm ready for more advanced cooking. Like more of the grown-uppy kind. Like the oven-y kind.

Can you imagine a dog walking down the street with a candy cane conference work phone?

You have to stay on your Googleaboo* to stay out of the hot lava. (The last one to fall off into the hot lava wins this game.)

[After playing a tune on his asparagus spear]: That was a song about when the father of all compost men died.

OK, my boat's landed. What island is this?

Mama: "Julian, come brush your teeth!"
Juju: "OK, if you insist. [pause]...What does insist mean?"

Super Peacock Feathers will save the day!

This is an armpit vacuum. It blows dirtiness all over everything you're touching. And then you fall down.

I'm making a peacock feather water-moving machine.

No=yes and yes=no.

There are only a few people who don't have hate. The people who have hate can't have love. I've been working with Mother Nature on the cycles. If you have any hate, I will be operating the machine that will pick you up and let you out in outer space.

How do crayons end their life? What is fire made of? Did you know that spiders can be as small as a speck of dust or as large as a dinner plate?

After eating a slice of watermelon, you should kiss the rind.

JUJUWORDS (DEFINED)

Chicawahwah  n. /chi-ka-wah-wah/ 1. "private parts"

Lukujalah interj. /lu-ku-jah-lah/ (inflection matters here!) 1. "If I say if very tender, it means 'Oh, how sad' 2.  but if I say it with a happy voice, it means the opposite. 3. If you say it half way between, it means 'Very nice. Good job!'"

*Googleaboo n. /goo-gah-la-boo/ = 1. a teardrop-shaped ottoman on wheels; 2. a game utilizing same

What is the opposite of Santa Cruz?

Hello? Hello? I'm using my sandwich as a space phone.

[flashing a light at me] I'm giving you an Energy Shot. There's a dollar of pounds in each second of light.

You are the Easter Mama Vegetarian Tiger who protects the eggs from the Easter Wolf.

I know a secret, Mama. At certain times, Pluto jumps over the other planets and is the closest to the Sun.

Did you know that earth is another name for dirt?

I have some stretchy rope and some Tranvaj (Polish tram) tickets. I'm making a "radiowave system."

I'm going to pitch a fork!

Anytime you want some love, just blow a kiss to my baby and he will give you pounds of love. Anytime. Even when you're not sick.

You can't remember things that happen to you when you're asleep because your memory rips everything apart.

Mama, what are those crinkles on your face?

If I wrote the 21 Balloons, I would have made it a little longer before the explosion so that they would finish the parachute. And I would have the flying thing go over San Francisco and have the professor land in San Francisco.

Mama: "Look, there's a halo around the moon." Julian: "It's not a halo, it's a moonbow." 

[holding a banana like a gun] What does this look like? (Um, a gun?) But, food comes out of it. It shoots food to poor people.

How tiny are virus balls? How do germs enter your body? What is spit for? How do people remember things?

[in bed] Do you want to pretend we're plants? We have to get under the covers because they are the dirt.

[with bubbles on his finger] My finger is wearing a spacesuit!

How about these crystals are alive and they're friends?

[in the bath] What warm water is there? (Hmm. What do you mean?) Oh, I'm just randomly saying something.

The birdies will help me find the eggs. They took the eggs that didn't hatch and painted beautiful patterns on them and hid them in the trees. They'll find them and bring them down to me.

How not-splashy can boats be?

I like ladybugs. I even like worms. I don't care if worms poop on me because they just eat dirt and poop it out.

Did you know there are three kinds of steps? The one that means "the next thing," the one you go up, and the step you take with your foot?

What's the opposite of Santa Cruz?


Jujuword Translation:
wooji = dishwasher rack

How does mold grow on your teeth?

This tortilla is beautiful. It's like art. It's precious art.

This is my X-ray sound phone. You call me on it when you want me to pull the rope in so you can get onto the boat raft.

How do you spell "King of the Underworld?"

One day can the whole family take apart the kitchen table and put it back together again?

Knock, knock. (Who's there?) Chicken. (Chicken who?) Chicken Why-Did-He-Cross-the-Road?

How many hours do you live? How many days? How many weeks? What's the highest number possible to live?

You get a 100% hug. It's like cotton, but it just hug.

Thank you for the fabulous dinner, Mama. Baba, are YOU going to thank Mama for the dinner? (Janusz: Thank you for the wonderful dinner, Suzuki.) I think fabulous is more than wonderful. Don't you think it was fabulous?

How is electricity made? How are magnets made so that they have all positives on one side and negatives on the other?

Did you know that if you say "terribly good," it means even more than "great?" It means the best good ever.

Mama, you look good lying in the bed with your hair like that. Your grey hair looks like seaweed.

Which is smaller, atoms or molecules? What's the smallest thing? How does mold grow on your teeth?

Twinkle, twinkle little spaghetti, how I wonder when you'll be ready. Up above the meatball sky, like a meatball in the sky, twinkle, twinkle little spaghetti, how I wonder when you'll be ready.

Are germs alive? What happens to them after you blow your nose? How many babies can germs have at one time?

Remember that movie about the hairy pierogi? And it had a talking pineapple in it? (Um, NO. Perhaps you dreamed it?)

I'm a tiger. I used to eat fish and share the fish with other tigers, but now I'm a vegetarian.

I've learned so many things from Baba lately! [Baba (Janusz) made charts and taught him the functions of hormones, the structure of atoms and certain molecules, how magnets are made to be polarized, and how electricity if made.]

Janusz: Julian, are you done with your pierogi?
Julian: Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin.

I'm a love transporter. I have the most love ever. And I throw it out all over the world, not knowing where it goes.

Suzuki: Goodnight, Juju. 
Julian: Goodnight...Wait, Mama! How does the heart pump blood?

No one will get hurt.

[At bedtime]: What if the lightning hits the window? What things are not conductive? Is there air on the moon? Are humans going to take over space like they've taken over the earth? How could they live on the moon? Are there other planets with air? What is the fastest spacecraft? I need to know. How much water is there on earth? How many places are there? How many interesting places?

[Regarding his school chums]: Donovan used to be Walker's best friend but then they weren't friends any more. But they are still connected because I'm friends with Walker AND I'm friends with Donovan. So I'm kind of connecting them.

How do horses talk with only one word?

I am the Spooky Dragon from Nimbus and I live in the clouds and I send down lightning and thunder.

Can we play a little space war game? Just a little tiny war? No one will get hurt.

Red is one of my favorite colors because I can stop cars with red!

[While using chopsticks]: What was the country that had the earthquake? (Japan.) Do they use chopsticks in Japan? (Yes.) So using them can be like a blessing to them.

I have a machine I carry in my pocket that scans my fingers...

"Grandpa, your eyebrows are very long. They keep dust out of your eyes very good."

(Julian shoveled snow by himself from Grandma and Grandpa's house to a few doors down, in 12 degree weather.)
"My blood was almost frozen."

"I'm Captain Bottle and you're Hop Slip Boop Slick and I'll teach you how to drive the ship. Baby Love (teddy bear) is the lookout. "

(Regarding Mama's pico de gallo):  "It's way better than the ones I have tasted in the recent days."

"Mama, I have a secret to tell you that no other sailors know."
S: "What is it?"
"I'll tell you when we're out on the seas."

"Mama, I made sweat lodges that can fly and walk and they're friends."

(Julian ran down the outside stairs to greet me after work): "Mama!!!"
Suzuki: "Hi Misiu. How was your day?"
Juju: "It was great! Every part of my day was great."
(Later, while hugging my leg, I asked him "What was so great about today?"): "You! This is the greatest part of my day."

"I have a secret room that has a giant trampoline that I jump on and I did a big flip!"

(running around) "I've got to catch up with the ketchup!"

Julian: "Let's talk about the underworld."
Janusz: "I told him I thought the underworld would be very dark, but he told me it's much brighter than here and that you have to wear sunglasses, but regular sunglasses are reading glasses in the underworld and you have to wear reading glasses to protect your eyes from the sun."
Julian: "Do you want to go to the underworld, Mama? The food is very good. Help yourself to whatever you want!"

Julian: "It's your fiddle's birthday. I've got to hug him and give him his present."
Suzuki: "What's his present?"
Julian: "You. You are his present."

"I want to bring a sunflower down to the underworld or to one of the planets I live on, either one. In the underworld, sunflowers are TREES."

Julian: "How do you write my name with you know, those bumps?"
Suzuki: "Braille?"
Julian: "No, how people usually write."
Suzuki: "You mean cursive handwriting?"
Julian: "Yes."

"Mama, do you want to pretend that it's your birthday and I'm your best friend and I baked you a cake and you'll say 'that's my favorite cake' and I'll say 'I know?' Oh, your cake is ready!  Mama, what if right before I cut it, a dragon popped out of it? Well, I'll make you a new one. What shape of pieces do you want your cake to be cut in?"

"Mama, Baba (Janusz) is good at cooking things that are simple and you are good at things that are more complicated."

Suzuki: "Oh wow, there's something funny about the way your ear is shaped."
Julian: "I like it. I like that I'm different so people can know that I'm here. That I'm I."

"Never go to a place where it's very quiet--where there's no sound. Because there's a spider that's SO poisonous--more poisonous than a black widow!"

Suzuki: "Thanks Honey, you are a great help to me."
Julian: "And you are a great help to ME! And you're a great help to yourself since you MADE me!!!"

"My hearing in that ear is kind of blurry. Your talking so lightly." (Ear infection.)

"I have a machine I carry in my pocket that scans my fingers very slowly and tells me when I need to cut my fingernails."
 
Suzuki: "Could you please go out and get me some sage from the garden?"
Julian: "I can't right now, I'm making a contraption."

(At dinner)
Suzuki: "I'm thankful to my son for making me laugh so many times today."
Janusz: "I'm thankful to my son for going on such a great hike with me today."
Julian: "OK, you guys--close your eyes but don't scrunch them. I'm thankful to you both for saying that."

"Finally! I caught up with the ketchup."

JUJU GLOSSARY ITEM:
"Poochie tacos," n. underarms

Soon, you will deserve breasts.

9/10/10

What's the name of that Gas Man who plays the flute? (Vinny.) Yeah. He plays like a bird sings.

11/25/10

We are a family of dragonflies. We can turn into any bug we want.

Soon, you will deserve rest. (Suzuki: I already deserve rest.) Soon, you will deserve breasts. (S: I already have breasts.) You will deserve more breasts! (How many?) 100!

You are my nemesis. (Do you know what it means?) I can't remember.

[This evening Julian sat next to the oven and read a book to the roasting chicken.] The chicken wants me to read him a story.

11/26/10

It's Paddy Fahey's Multiplying Circus!

11/30/10

I played soccer with Rowan today at school. (Pretend or with a ball?) With a molecule.

Guess what I'm building? A wombat truck.

12/2/10

[I overheard Julian and his friend Rowan declare each other best friends.]

12/6/10

Mama, I love you so much, I can't really tell you.

12/7/10

King of the Fungus, King of the Fungus, I'm the King of Fungus, Baby, I'm the King of Fungus, Baby! [To the tune of Manu Chao's "Bongo Bong" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQ5o50CPxU]

Mama, do you believe in Fairies? I do. My friend Luke and I both believe in Fairies and pretend we are Fairies. (What are fairies and where do they live?) They have wings and some of them are invisible. They live everywhere. Like fire fairies, water fairies, dirt fairies, tooth fairies, hot lava fairies, flood fairies. We like the good fairies. Not all of them are good.

12/8/10

Hey Indigo, let's play pretend soccer without a ball! (Indigo: You can't play soccer without a ball.) Yes you can. You stand there in the middle and I'll kick. [Kick] Almost! That's almost.

12/10/10

I'm the king of the spank-your-butt club, but it doesn't spank butts anymore. It's a special fairy that puts lights on the Christmas tree and gives you wishes.

12/11/10

I'm so hungry, I'd have to eat the whole world to get myself full.

12/14/10

I gave you an extra fart because I had one more than you and you had one less than me.

12/16/10

[handing me a heart token] Take this heart with you to work today, Mama, and whenever you want some love from me, just squeeze it.

12/17/10

[wielding a ladle] This is my magic wand and I use it to stop wars. Ok, I stopped all the wars! Now I will use it to make people healthy.

Angels and Fairies are in the same family.

[With a worry doll ornament] What are your worries, Mama? (I worry that sometime you tell lies and are mean to people.) You know what my worries are? I worry about Grandpa. That's one of our biggest worries right now.

12/18/10

[In the middle of reading The Night Before Christmas] Is Santa Claus real? (Um, do you want to believe in him?) No, I want to know if he's real. (Are you sure you want to know?) Yes. (No.) Then, how do the presents get there? (There's some parent involvement.) How? (They hide things to make it a surprise.) I want to help do that! I want to help do that for the other people. [Later, Janusz told Juju the story of the real St. Nicholas.]

Boing-y hog! [This is one of his favorite non sequiturs.]

12/21/10

[Carrying an invisible "big box"] This is a present for you and you can open it today because today is Christmas for the underworld and this is from the underworld!

Talking with an alligator accent.

10/7/10

Dust for sale! Who wants some dust? Dust for sale!

10/8/10

[I was whistling a tune and Juju said, "I love that tune! Let's listen to it!"] (S: I don't know the name of it, so it would be tough to find it on my iPod. I could play it for you, though, if you want.) J: Yes, I do. We could name it ourselves! [Thus, a tune was re-monikered "Puzzle Morning Jig. It goes D E G E D B, etc.]

Who wants to sell dust with me?

10/11/10

[On the steps in front of our house] Do you know what I do when someone goes by that I don't know who they are? I freeze. (S: So that you're hidden?) No, so that they'll think I'm a sculpture.

10/12/10

[With a garland encircling his face, like he was a flower]: Roar.( S: Um, are you a scary flower?) I'm just telling the bees I have no more honey...I'm just telling the bees I have no more pollen...What's pollen?

S: I'll put these worry dolls by your bed, so you can tell them any worries you might have before going to sleep.

J: I can also tell them things to mix in with the worries that are not worries. I can do that.

10/17/10

Mama, you be my fish and I'll be a fisher and I'll catch you, because you're going to be my pet. And you couldn't find any food, so I put a glass jar on the end and you swam into it and I brought it up and gave you a bunch of food.

10/28/10

Suzuki: The sky looks pretty right now.

Julian: Like garlic. It's dawn.

11/4/10

I'm talking with an alligator accent.

11/5/10

I want to make some "laughing bread." (S: What's laughing bread?) Tortillas.

11/9/10

Love isn't real. You just think it is. It's not real.

11/15/10

[Inspired from a recent trip to Yosemite, Julian decided to make crayon-colored, cut-out "mountains" for all of his teachers and one of his friends at school, Rowan.] I'm going to give them out like tokens!

11/16/10

(Whispering to me): We need to make plans. (S: What plans?) We'll discuss it upstairs. (S: Um, OK.) [Later, upstairs]: (S: So, what plans are we going to discuss?) Well...why don't we disguise the upstairs of the house, then we can hide from Baba? (S: But how can we disguise the house without making a big mess? I've really been trying to get things organized.) We're going to have it organized. [Then he took a couple of bandanas out and draped them on a couple of furnishings.] OK, there! Let's get in our hiding places. [He got into the closet.] Baba! Come up here!

11/17/10

The street is full of hot lava. We're hot lava monsters and we can slurp the hot lava like a drink.

[Placing two small chairs into various formations]: I'm making a topsy-turvy exerciser. Do you want me to make a seat for you on the topsy-turvy exerciser? (Yes.) Now it's a topsy-turvy boat. We can sail across the ocean. Can we have a dance party and put the boat to the shore?

Real sailors drink a glass of water before they brush their teeth. And captains slurp the saltwater from the ocean!

Mama, can you tell Baba to keep my door open tonight because it's a sailors' secret that if the door's open, I will sail faster tomorrow morning.

11/18/10

[It was too quiet in the other room for some time and I went to see what Julian was doing. He was sitting quietly, staring out the window. He looked at me and burst into tears]: Mama, there were these people out there doing bad things--these kids kept trying to break the trees and hurt the plants! And I love those trees SO MUCH!!! [Teenagers from White Hill Middle School.]

My name isn't really Thor.

9/17/10
 

Here, I'm delivering the hugs. I give you all my love with hugs. I give all my love to Baba by speaking Polish sometimes.

Me and Djadek (Polish grandpa) could understand each other without talking to each other.

9/24/10

This corn on the cob is like real candy! Next year at Easter, can we put some corn in the eggs?

(In bed in the tent at Roger and Ellen's house during the Celtic Festival in Sebastopol):

Suzuki: Goodnight. 

Juju: Goodnight.

(S walks away from the tent, until she hears): Wait Mama!

S: Yes, Juju?

J: I love you SO much!

S: Likewise, Honey!

J: Unzip the tent a little so the love can get through. (S does so.)

J: OK, you got it now.

9/25/10

Did you know that the stars are not really stars? They are really huge clumps of LOVE. If you look at a star, the love comes down to you.

9/26/10

(Still at Roger and Ellen's house in Sebastopol)

Juju: They have the shell night light for their grandsons.

Suzuki: And their granddaughters. They have three grandsons and two granddaughters.

Babcza and Dzadek have only one grandson. You! And Grandma and Grandpa have three grandkids: You, Hayden and Megan.

J: They are a little luckier.

S: Janusz and I will only have as many grandkids as you have kids.

J: OH!

(pause)

J: I will marry you again and we'll have kids!

S: Hmm. Then my kids will also be my grandkids! That would be kind of weird.

J: Yeah. That would be REALLY weird! (laughs)

9/28/10 

(On his way out the door to go to school):

Mama, I'm going to keep saying goodbye and I love you the whole day. You will feel it the whole day. Make sure you feel it in your brain. Make sure you feel it for the whole time I don't see you.

(To Janusz) There's love bouncing between you and me and Mama. And there's another love bouncing between just you and Mama.

10/1/10 

[Julian attended the Celtic Festival in Grass Valley, Nevada and camped out there with Suzuki for the weekend. He heard a whole lot of live music, made new friends, helped assemble and collapse an assortment of camping and trailer mechanical gear, pet a rooster, watched Scottish Highland Games, saw parading revelers, met a man in a bicycle-powered wheelchair that he pedaled with his arms, saw traditional craftsmanship including wool spinning, made straw figures, saw rescued wildlife raptors, heard geese chatting, saw a magic show, was given "dragon tears," and saw an old gold rush town, Nevada City.]

10/2/10 

Mama, you are the most helpful person I have ever met. [pause] Well, I didn't really "meet" you, right?

[After finding a dog tag that says "My Name is Thor"]: My name isn't really Thor. It's only my name when I go to the underworld. When I dig down to the underworld. Thor is the name of the underworld. That's why they call me that. Because I am the ruler of the underworld.

10/3/10

I wrote a song. It's called Jiggity Reel. The way you play it is you take a truck and you throw it into the ocean. The crashing waves and the splashing car are the music.

Play some tunes, Mama. I'm dying to hear some Irish music.

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TWO BONUS JANUSZ ENTRIES:

(Regarding his strained relationship with my love of traditional music):

If you just repeat the A and the B--if you beat the dead cat to death over and over, it's so boring.

It's just not my piece of cake.

Six dimensional is when there’s sound too.

7/12/10

My shirt is five-dimensional. Six dimensional is when there’s sound too.

7/13/10

The more sugary it is, the more yummier it is for kids. That’s what we know.

Salt is kind of sugary. Actually, it’s kind of sweet!

7/17/10

(Looking at an old dump site in the Colorado Rocky Mountains): That’s so sad. We should clean this up! (But, where are we going to put it--it’s still going to end up on the earth.) I’m going to make a machine that will recycle everything to clean up the earth. (But what about when your machine breaks down--where will that end up?) It will be compostable. All my machines will be compostable. My machines will last for my whole life. (What about your kids and their kids lives?) I will teach my kids and they will teach their kids and they will teach THEIR kids how to operate the machine.

7/20/10

I have a secret and I’ll only tell you. I have a special scrape that gives me clues. (What kind of clues?) Clues for where the treasure is.

7/28/10

J: I know what a “goon” is. (What is a goon?) It has four arms and four hands, a butt for one eye and a mouth for a nose and a nose for a mouth.

7/30/10

(Straddling my duffle bag with its straps tied all around himself): Wheee! I’m on my rollership!

8/8/10

J: When they built this street, there were these beautiful trees (on median) so they left them there. When I build streets, they will be so beautiful because I will leave all the beautiful things that are growing. And I will make the road very high so that the roots can get very big.

Mama, you are a dandelion seed. And Baba and I are Japanese Maples. You get to fly over the ocean. (I do?) Yes. We will make the wind to blow you across.

J: (in the draining bathtub, with his hand on the drain): It’s sucking me down.

S: (addressing the drain): No, you can’t have my son!

J: But I want to go down to the pipe world!

S: But I want you here in this world!

J: But I will come back.

J: (Later, while his shirt was being pulled over his head): Oh no, I’m going to the pipe world and I’m not even packed!

J: (Later): I’m the leader of the pipe world.

J: (in bed): I push a special button and cords come down and attach to my bed and then pull it up, so I can sleep up in the air.

8/10

I’m going to bring my froggy to Poland, because I love him SO much. I’m going to bring him mostly everywhere I go.

(in relation to birthday presents received from Lew and Leslie): I will open theirs first, since they were the champion ones with the cards.

S: I’ll put your money from Grandma and Grandpa into my bank account, since you don’t have enough money to have your own bank account yet.

J: Yes, because I save my ice cream money (loose change) for ice cream, not for getting a bank account!

8/23/10 in Poland

(Playing with a toy fan): I’m cleaning the air. It’s good for you. I’m serious. I’m trapping some bad stuff and putting it in jail.

I am Robot Kenobe. And I can take off my hand.

7/2/10

I’m getting all the best stuff  from my treasure chest to send to Grandpa. I’m getting all my best Grandpa love stuff. I’m sucking it all up—Ffffpt!—and sending it up into the air and through the radio lines. Wait, which way is their house? OK, Pssssssssssssssht! (shooting toward Denver).

7/3/10

(In the kitchen) Maybe there will be a new kind of animal that likes burnt things. So maybe we should burn something and put it up on the hill.

Fire came out of my nose and I sucked it back in.

7/4/10

Let’s pretend the doctor told me I have to blow bubbles through this bamboo straw. Because I can’t have a lot of air in my body. Let’s pretend there’s a problem in my ears and I have to hear the sound (of the bubbles) to fix the problem.

You can go on a ride on my rollerboater coaster.

I’m a secret spy. (Janusz: What is a secret spy?) Nobody can look at them because they run fast.

My language is nonsense to the people on the world. But on my planet, it’s real. It’s real stuff, OK? But it’s nonsense to the world people, like you. I built the world and all the planets. WAY before the dinosaurs. I was born in space. I built all the planets, even the world and Pluto. I live on Pluto. And on a lot of other planets, even the one that got hit. (Jupiter?) Yes. Luckily, I wasn’t there and I took my house on top of my car. I made my house the kind that pops onto wheels and you can wheel it onto your car. Then you can pop it down on the planet. You should come with me sometime. I’ll show you. But you shouldn’t take your jet pack because it will make you shoot past ALL the planets…(etc.).

7/5/10

[First day of new school, Little Arrows pre-school. When Suzuki went to wake him up, he literally jumped out of bed and dived for his clothes. Definitely enthused.]

I wish I was a lighthouse keeper. Do they still have those?

Who are the people who decide what people can do and can’t do? (Lawmakers?) Yes. How do you get to be one? (You run for a position in government, etc…Do you want to be one?) Yes. How many things can you be? (Depends on how much time you need for each thing. You can do multiple things if you have enough time. Or, you can do one thing for a while and then switch to another.) Are you going to do your job forever, Mama? (I don’t know.) Do old people have jobs?

7/6/10

Do you know all the words in the world? (No, no one does.) No, I do. I learned them while I was in your belly. Someone taught me all the words.(Who?) The man from Pluto. He had a special spaceship and it poked in you and it didn’t even hurt.

Don’t ever go camping without me. I want you to bring me with you everywhere you go.

7/8/10

(Dr. Julian played healing flute music to Janusz’s hurt foot.)

How many hours until dinner is ready? How many days until dinner is ready? How many months until dinner is ready? How many ancestors until dinner is ready?

(monotone voice) I am Robot Kenobe. And I can take off my hand.

7/9/10

I built all the planets, but actually Pluto growed, and I was born on Pluto. Pluto still thinks I’m his son, but I’m not.

7/10/10

We should take band-aids everywhere we go, in case one of us gets hurt. If I get hurt, you will put one on me, and if you get hurt, I will put one on you.

One of my jobs is to pinch myself.

5/8/10

I want to live in a shoe, Mama.

5/9/10

Did I say "Happy Mothers Day" too many times?

Is gravity the strongest thing in the world? (I guess so.) Except clouds, right? They're stronger because they stay up in the sky.

I'm going to jump up and hang from the sky. And I'm going to jump off Pluto. They don't even have that in circus school.

I speak my own language. In my world, the man taught me, the one who warns me.

5/16/10

I have special zombie eyes. (What is a zombie?) It's some kind of an animal. And it's bigger than us. It's giant.

I should teach other people my language. When I grow up, I'll teach it. I hope I will remember it.

One of my jobs is to pinch myself.

5/19/10

I want to learn this song ("I'll Cry Instead" by the Beatles): I'll Fly Instead!

(Explaining the high-frequency signal filter device on Janusz's laptop's power cord): On the cord in the little tank thing, there's a gate only the good electricity can open and the bad electricity can't and when the gate is left open, an invisible filter net quickly goes out that only good electricity can go through. The bad electricity can't. Maybe it's like that. [Indeed, Janusz says it is!]

5/21/10

If you scream too loud at my school, the sprinklers will go on.

HIGH-MAINTENANCE TRUCK, COMING THROUGH!

I'm a robot and I have a little pouch right here at my waist where I can put my kangaroo.

I'm making a high-maintenance bridge. I have emergency nose wipes, emergency whistles, gloves, and spyglasses. And an emergency telephone. (Why?) Because if people walking across drop stuff. There are no sides on the bridge.

A spider is spinning his web around a bad spaceship. He's a good black widow.

5/22/10

Something was biting my foot. It was half mosquito, half lion.

(His new favorite (Beatles) song of the moment is "I Should Have Known Better" because he likes the harmonica.)

Watch my karate. [Kicks.] (Kristen: "How did you learn karate?") When I made the world, the world taught me karate kicks.

5/25/10

This is the first time I peeled the whole ginger by myself. I'm learning kitchen stuff. I'm going to tell everyone at my school. I'm really a peeler of ginger with this (peeler). It will be so easy for me. I'm going to be able to help you so much times. I'm working hard on this because I'm learning. Some parts, I'm learning so quickly. (Singing): Get all the bumps out! I got all the skin out!

5/26/10
 

(After I had put him to bed): Mama, can you please come back up here? ([Upstairs, whilst snuggling] OK, what's up, Honey?) It's my last chance to be with you on this day.

Copyright infringement.

3/28/10

Mama, I think I'm going to be a musician when I grow up. And an artist. I know that.

4/8/10

(swoop!) I caught you in my parents-catching net! I give you a big hug, then I let you go.

I'm a power peace ninja. Ninjas do exercise, they don't hurt anybody. Peace power ninjas are bigger than ice cream trucks.

4/10/10

When I wake up in the morning, I can't really control my voice. I can't talk very well. But when I walk through my door, there's a force field I walk through and then I can talk.

4/13/10

Let me see your necklace. It has powers. That's a power necklace. When I touch it, I get lots of power. I got a lot of power from that necklace.

4/20/10

I'm king of the skylights!

(Carrying a stick) This is my staff of plenty!

You're an ice chamber blender freezer.

Look at the cuckoo banister spaceship!

4/23/10

When I grow up, I'm going to make the same book (Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein). I'm going to draw the same pictures and write the same words! (Pause)...Whose name will be on it?

(While hiking) I'm a robot. Robots can't see, they have to feel their way.

4/24/10

I'm a scruggle-foot mulligatawny!