We're Back, thanks to Disneyland

Mom stands in the middle of the living room, literally scratching her head.

Finn: What are you doin'??

Mom: Oh, I'm just thinking...

Finn: About what?

Mom: About what I should do right now... if I should start cleaning the house, or bake cookies, or...

Finn: Go to DISNEYLAND?!?

Mom cracks up.

Mom: What made you think of that?

Finn: Oh, I don't know, it just came in my thoughts.

And he goes back to eating.

I'm worried...

Finn: oh, ho ho oh... (his play-crying sound)

Mom: What's wrong?

Finn: I'm worried.

Mom: What are you worried about?

Finn: I'm worried that when I die and become an angel, I might get hurt by an airplane that has a sharp needle on the front!

Dad says in the background: "That's gotta be the Museum of Flight..."

Death, Part Two

Finn: Is dying bad?

Mom: What do you think? Is dying bad?

Finn: Yes.

Mom: Why?

Finn: Because our muscles go away and our bones go away!

Mom: Is that bad?

Finn: Yes!

Mom: You don't want to be a floating spirit?

Finn: I don't want to be a floating spirit!

Pause

Finn: Do we become angels after we die?

Mom: What do you think?

Finn: Yes.

Mom: What's an angel?

Finn: It's people that float. In the sky.

Mom: Would that be fun?

Finn: Yes!

Mom: I don't want you to die until you're very very very very old.

Finn: Yeah - sometime when I'm a grown up.

Mom: Yeah.

Death and the Six Year Old

Last night, going to sleep...

Finn: Is Old bad?

Mom: No, old isn't bad.

Finn: But Old is Dying!

Mom: Well, not always. Is dying bad?

Finn: Yes!

Mom: Why is it bad?

Finn: Because our muscles go away and our bones go away.

Pause

Finn: When we die do we go to heaven?

Mom: Yes, we do.

Finn: Do we come angels?

Mom: Yes.

Finn: Are angels floating people?

Mom: Yes, they are!

Finn: Are your grandma and grandpa angels now?

Mom: Yes, they are.

Slippery Fish - Music Video, Take One

Finn sang for me this morning, and allowed me to tape his second rendition. It was good, not quite as upbeat as the first, but still good. He watched it with me -




Then he said:

"But that's not it! We got to make it a cartoon. A cartoon under the water of all those bad fishes - and a lady under the water, and they eat her all up! And then they get sick!"

And so now I am thinking of trying to figure out how to do animation.

Finn's Conversations with God

Finn began this conversation asking me once again if God is a he or a she. I asked him - What do you think? His response:

Finn: I think he's a he! Hey - Is God a kid or a man?

Mom: What do you think?

Finn: I think he's a kid! I talked to God. And he said "I love you!" And he's a kid. He lives on the moon. He has no mom and dad and he likes to play with his trains. He's an orphan. He says, "Bullseye!"

When I Die

Finn: Hey, Mom, when people die, do they come angels?

Mom: Yes. When people die, they become angels.

Finn: When I die, will my muscles go away?

Mom: Yes.

Finn: Will my bones go away?

Mom: Yes.

Finn leaves. Comes back 2 minutes later.

Finn: Mom! Hey! When I die and come an angel, will I be a muscle angel or a bone angel?

Mom: What do you want to be?

Finn: A muscle angel!

Mom: Okay.

Finn: But how will my bones and my muscles get there?

Mom: I don't know, Finn. That's kind of a mystery.

Finn: Yeah.

I'm Gonna Be Original Guy!

Finn asks a long series of questions about bodies - are muscles soft or hard, is blood soft or hard, are bones soft or hard, etc?

Mom answers, then says:

Mom: Finn, you know so much about bodies, maybe you'll be a doctor when you grow up!

Finn: NO!

Mom: What are you going to be when you grow up, then?

Finn: I'm not gonna be a doctor, or a firefighter, or a policeman, or a construction worker, or nothin!

Mom: What are you going to be?

Finn: I'm gonna be Original!!!

Note re. his inspiration: Finn has a new toy, Mr. Potato Head - with a box that lists Potato Head characters similar to the list above. "Original Guy" is the original Mr. Potato Head. 

That guy is who Finn wants to be.

My son. Original Guy.

Where Does God Live?

Finn: Hey, where does God live?

Mom: Everywhere -

Finn: Everywhere?

Mom: Yes - in every leaf and in you!

Finn: In me?

Mom: Yes - in your heart.

Finn: (big grin, shining eyes) and in my head?

Mom: Yes.

Finn: and in my eye?

Mom: Yes.

Finn: and in my mouth? (stretching mouth out wide)

Mom: Yes.

Finn: and in my knee?

Mom: Yes!

Finn: Wait! I have to go pee-pee!!

Finn's First (reported) Dream

(Mom walks into Finn's room this morning - he's in bed, and when he sees me he started jumping up and down).

Finn: Mom! Mom! I had a Dream!!

Mom: You did?? What was it?

Finn: You know my lizard, and my spider, they were BIG, like my alligator I had - I put them in water and they got really really BIG! like the alligator did! but they didn't break like the alligator, they stayed BIG! and then they got SMALL AGAIN!!!

Mom: Oh, Finn!!

Finn: Yeah!!

(note from Mom: I have been asking Finn for over a year if he had any dreams. The answer has always been no - until today.

note #2 from Mom: The lizard and the spider are soft rubbery toys - the alligator was one of those you put in water and it expands to six times its size. It grew, then got like dried styrofoam, then broke.)

What is Gumby?

Finn: "hey - Pokey's a horse, and what is Gumby?"

Mom: "I don't know, what is he?"

Finn: "I think he's a giraffe! A giraffe with two legs, and he's green!"

How Babies Are Made

Finn:  (talking to himself in the hallway).... and the seeeeed, and the eeeeggg, got together, and they came through the vagina, and that's how you were made.

God - He

Finn: Is God a he? Hey - is God really a he?

Mom (who is typing quickly): No.

Finn: (blank look)

Mom: God is a he and a she. God is bigger than he and she.

Finn: Oh. Huh.

First Post - Finn Judd's First Screenplay

My niece Mohini suggested I make a blog for Finn - based on a post I had put up on mine. And you know, I'm not the best mom in the world for recording this amazing thing called growth, so I thought this would help.

And so, I shall repost the inspiration for this blog -

Finn wanted to know if there was a Devil Duck cartoon movie. I said, “I don’t think so – why don’t we make one someday with the video camera? We’ll have to make up a story for it.” And he dictated the following story.


Finn Judd’s first Screenplay, as told to his Mom.

Title: Devil Duck Land

Once upon a time, a purple Devil Duck came, and she said, 'I love Devil Duck land!'

Then, a big mean Green Duck came and they were fightin'. Then, they said, 'I don't want to fight at each other!'

A big Mean Orange Duck came and he tried to kill Green Duck and Purple Duck. Then Orange Duck said, 'I Don't want to try and kill you!'

Then the big mean Red Duck came and he cried, 'I'm trying to kill you out of control!' Then he said, 'I Don't want to kill you out of control!'

Then a big big big spotted Devil Duck came and he tried to put Red Duck, Orange Duck, Purple Duck and Green Duck in jail. Then, the spotted Duck said, 'I Don't want to put you in jail!'

Then, the great big big Fire Duck came right over to Devil Duck land and he said, 'I want to put you in my mouth!' Then he said, 'I Don't want to put you in my mouth!'

Then a big big Pink Duck came running over to Devil Duck land and she said, 'I want to poke you on my horns!' Then she said, ‘I don’t want to poke you on my horns!’

Then a big big mean Clear Duck came running over to Devil Duck land and he said, ‘I want to put them in my squeaky!’

Then a great big mean Hapu (camouflage) Duck came running over to Devil Duck land and he said, ‘I want to put you in my beak!’ Then he said, ‘I Don’t want to put you in my beak.’

Then, a big big big Pirate Duck came running over the Devil Duck land. He said, ’I want to put you in my pirate’s treasure!’ Then, he said, ‘I Don’t want to put you inside my pirate’s treasure!’

(Cut to Mom writing: “Why are they changing their minds, do you think?” Finn: “‘cause that’s the movie I want to make up for them!”)

Then a Great Big Big Big Ginormous Green Devil Duck came running over to Devil Duck land and he said, ‘I want to poke you on my horns!’ and then he said, ‘I Don’t want to poke you on my horns!’

Then no Devil Ducks came running over to Devil Duck land.

The End.