"hey momma, if i could just install rockets on my tennis shoes we'd have a good back up plan if a tornado came.
we could just join hands and shoot up above! BUT - for months ahead i'd need to test 'em in rain and shine and just hover all around 'cause what would happen if we got 3,000 feet up and i stalled???
and, you don't want to install mini-parachutes because they'd snatch your feet up above your head real fast and you might break somethin'. if i ever got somethin' like that i'd try it over the trampoline first and i'd have daddy stand on the trampoline so hopefully he could at least break my fall a little bit and if you and daddy and wil had 'em too we could get lots of people up there and it wouldn't just be family-beneficial!"
-ar
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"hey momma, you know what would be cool? if phillip was up in the big thick tree and he dared me to jump up and tag him and i'm like 'really,' (cocks eyebrow for effect here)and i just jumped 8ft up and smacked him on the back! also, if i had that much strength, well when all the girls pick up on me all i have to do is whip around real fast two times and they'd all be laying down flat on the ground."
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"hey momma, i'm thinkin' it would be really cool if a spaceship had 6 tanks instead of 3. maybe that way maybe we could make it out of the milky way and at the same time drag another spaceship along on a chain so when the first one runs out of fuel, since they're weightless, you could unhook the chain and swing it around to the back and hook the chain back on and start the other one up!"
-ar
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"well, that's kind of insulting to a 9 year old, isn't it?" (he's analyzing the lyrics of a popular country song,'at 17 it's hard to see past friday night...') because I can see WAY past friday night. i can see all the way to sunday night! i know saturday comes after friday and i know i want to put the POOL up on saturday, so actually, i guess it's an insult to 17 year olds and a compliment to 9 year olds, 'cause 7 & a 9 year olds CAN see past friday night!"
-ar
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