I suppose it is questionable as to whether what Ethan wrote is technically l33t, but l33t by its nature defies any technical specification. I find his work sufficiently obscure to qualify. It also provides perspective on those who use l33t speak intentionally. Are they really just regressing back to their unrefined origins?
What does this say?
Don't try platitudes with Ethan.
Daddy: "There are millions of hungry children in China who would love to have that cereal you say is soggy."
Ethan (in the cutest voice imaginable): "Throw it in the sink then and it will go to China."
We were reading a story where a boy must pass through a briar patch to retrieve a blind man's cane. The story pauses to ask, "What would Jesus do?" Ethan's answer was, "Fix the blind man's eyes."
It took less than 24 hours for Eliana to discover that the cabinet storing all our videos and CDs was without its child-proof latch. She found the video “The Mysterious Islands” and walked it over to the TV. I think she liked the picture on the case. She opened the Xbox tray, took out the Kinect game disc, set it aside (instead of in its case – naughty), removed the video from its case, loaded it into the Xbox, and closed the tray.
In everyone’s eyes except hers, Eliana is far too young to be manipulating discs or an Xbox, but she apparently had spent months secretly learning the necessary skills by watching her parents and brother. No one had any idea what she was doing until the Xbox controller app on the PC I was using indicated that the Xbox had been turned on. I went downstairs expecting to find Ethan trying to figure out to start a Kinect game by himself. Instead, Ethan was outside, and only our little girl was in the basement.
Not wanting to disappoint her, I spared sharing the detail that the video she chose was Blu-Ray, which Xbox 360 doesn’t support. I stuck with the “discs are too fragile for little girls” theme, which she took well.
Eliana was on the of the kiddie play set at the park with another girl about her age. At one point they were on the central platform together, when her friend started going one way to crawl through a tube. Eliana went the other way toward the slide. At the top of the slide, Eliana turned to the girl and asked her to slide down with her.
At least, that’s what I think she was asking. I don’t know for sure, since I don’t speak baby talk gibberish, and Eliana didn’t use any of her English words. Fortunately, the other girl, also being a little one, spoke baby talk gibberish fluently. She came over and slid down right after Eliana.
