Kid Comments

Two weekends ago I took the kids to the grocery store. (Actually, I did it this past weekend, too.) First we stopped at Best Buy, where Crazy Jane and I tried to play the demonstration version of Rock Band, but we couldn't figure it out. As we were leaving, she said a classmate of hers has a guitar like that at his house, so he must have Rock Band. I said, "Well, I know there's a different game called Guitar Hero. Maybe he has that one." She asked, "Why is this one called Rock Band?" I said, "It has more than just a guitar, right? It has drums, too." She said, "But it just has guitar and drums. If they wanted to be like a rock band they'd have more instruments, like a triangle."
Then we went to the grocery store where they both tried to talk me into buying every sugar-based snack item in the store. (Thus arose a new family rule: you can't ask for anything in a grocery store.) When I turned down one item, Crazy Jane said, "Then why does [maternal grandma] buy these all the time?" and Articulate Joe said, "Because she has a ton of money."