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.