Crappy Boy and Crappy Baby were doing an art project. With paint.
Crappy Boy was not happy with Crappy Baby’s technique:
So Crappy Baby replied with:
I wonder what Descartes* was like as a toddler.
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*Descartes is of the “I think, therefore I am” claim to fame. It’s cool if you didn’t know that because now you do. Most people think it was Socrates, Plato or Aristotle but that is just because they had more Facebook fans than Descartes did.
Yes, I know it is against the rules of the universe to expect kids to share art supplies. Don’t worry, I split it up for them after I stopped laughing.
“I can, because I do” is the official slogan of toddlerhood.
And YES, shirts with this slogan on it are coming!
That’s awesome! lol
This is the best line ever!
Indeed! Stealing!
My nearly 3 year old’s favourite slogans are ‘I can if I want to’ and ‘Let I try it’
“Let I try it” is my little rastafarian’s favorite line.
I think I’m going to embroider that onto a pillow. Thanks for the inspiration, Crappy Boy!
Awesome! I love it! My two aren’t into sharing either.
Our swim team slogan my senior year of high school was “You Will, Because You Can.” Same difference!
love it!!!
I am to make my son with this slogan on it! I love it!
this is my favourite reply. I am to make my daughter laugh with this.
Lol! I love this slogan! And these 2 replies are the best! Lol
ohhh… your posts just make me giggle. Even on the worst of days. Crappy Baby has to be the funniest kids ever
Haha. That is awesome. My two-year old answers with ” ’cause me want to,” which is kind of the same sentiment not as well articulated.
The paint thing is so funny! But why would you even expect them to share? I always make two paint plates for my two, 6 and 8. I cannot stand for the paint to be mixed, or playdough. It’s against my OCD oath =) If that is the offical moto of toddlerhood, then I nominate ” Because I said “No” ” as the motherhood moto or battle cry. Every parent will say it , or if they won’t admit it, then have thought.
I think I’ll make that MY new personal motto!
Toddlerhood, hell . . . I’m adopting that as MY slogan!
I was just thinking the SAME thing.
When are you getting that printed on a toddler T?? (Was going to say onesie, but what self-respecting toddler wears a onesie?)
Yep I think that is completely T worthy. Heck I want adult size!!!
Crappy boy could paint them with dye and add them to his store! Crappy Baby could get a commission.
That is also the slogan of some 30-year-old men. Not that I would know any of those types of men. *eyeroll*
I see with his color blending he has mastered the color brown – my 3.5 year old has got that one down too
LOL
My toddler’s current thing is to say “but, no” after anything she tries and can’t do.
As in:
Me: Eat your oatmeal.
Her: I try, daddy. But, no.
or
Me: Can you sing that song about beans and magic fruit?
Her: I want to daddy. But, no.
Also, I think the addendum to your little Descartes is, “and I do, because you no want me to.”
Oh, this I love. My Joseph will just tell me “me no like this Mama”.
my son says “me no ready” when it’s time to do everything, sigh
genius
Being a parent. Better than a UNI degree.
My 4 y.o. and her preschool teacher are on their way to setting a pithy slogan record this week. Today her teacher told me my daughter was officially a kissing bandit. Apparently she got sent to the office for kissing just a little too much. And my daughter, for her part, won’t back down because “the boys love it when I blow kisses.” Sigh.
And as an added bonus: My kids have taken to illustrating my life. http://www.momintwocultures.com/2012/09/are-you-sure-were-related.html
http://www.momintwocultures.com/2012/09/proof-once-again-that-these-may-not-be.html
“I can, because I do.” You’ve just summed up why toddlers are so incredibly awesome. No artifice, nothing to figure out – what you see is what you get!
And it doesn’t make things any easier to get separate but equal craft supplies or toys – I learned this the hard way.
Is that like “Do or do not, there is no try?” He’s like a mini Yoda. Love it!
I have a 2 yr old who decided this week: “I’m big because I like mustard!”
Love the logic of little ones.
Your little one is dead right!
I distinctly remember when I was 10 on holiday I france watching 2 younger children at the next table (Prob about 5 or 6yrs old) tucking into a salad with strong mustard on it, the sort most Brits couldn’t eat without their eyes watering. I was in awe and shock, and picked at the few leaves of salad I could get without the poison on…
(Strangely since my first pregnancy when I had mustard cravings, I’m still a massive mustard fan)
PS, I love the look on crappy boys face in response to his little bro’s logic
Oh I love this. I approve the motion of making this into a toddler tee
“I can because I do” is that why my two year old has decided she doesn’t need to go to bed at night, or eat meals, and constantly yells instead of speaking? Lol at least we have a reason now…
Priceless! LOL!
The inner toddler in me says that all of the time! I’m such a brat hehe!
i need that on a shirt, or on a cute kid-drawn greeting card
Rene Descartes walks into a restaurant. The waiter sees him to his table, and asks, “Sir, would you like to see our wine list?” To which Descartes replies, “I think not,” and disappears.
^like!
That can be the title of your next book!
I love this! Toddler logic. I know it’s not the same but it reminds me of what my daughters says. She is 3 doesn’t know how to use contractions yet, so instead of saying don’t I, she says do I.
As in: I like yellow flowers, do I.
Sounds likes my son’s kind of logic…
Me: Why are you sad?
Him: Because I am sad.
Can’t argue with that!
this is awesome. my girl can’t really talk yet, but she LIVES it. plus, i may try this line at work….
I love Crappy Baby’s eyes. It’s like, “hello? I just did mix that paint. So there.”
Haha! I love it. My 3yo goes around saying, “We can do whatever we can do.” Truth.
Haha! Thanks for the mini-lesson on the classics. One of my favorite toddler lines (from someone who is now 30) is “if I do, I do. If I not, I not.”
OK that’s going to be my slogan too. Thanks.
Maybe Crappy Baby can make his own Etsy store and sell t-shirts…
LIKE!!!!! Yes, please!
Too funny!!! I’m going to start using that!! MY budding artist, autographed, in his best penmanship, my silverware drawer….in Black Sharpie….then brings me to the kitchen to take a look. As, I’m standing there with a slack mouth in shock and awe…he says…”See?? I TOLD you I’m a good artist!” Hahaha. Thank goodness for Mr.Clean magic eraser…it has saved a life more than once!!!
Awesome! I’m totally going to use that on my kids- especially my teenagers who challenge the logic and reasoning behind my ‘unfair’ decision making. Now when they ask ‘But why?,’ instead of the old ‘Because I said so,’ I’m going to throw, ‘I can because I do’ at them.
We JUST dealt this EXACT SAME SCENARIO tonight. Seriously. You didn’t draw the part with the screaming and general chaos that erupted after the mixing of the paint, though. That was such the fun part.
I already said it. Shirt Slogans. YOU NEED THEM. YOU need a zazzle account.
DO IT! 
Perhaps that can be crappy baby’s venture.
Yes, merchandise is in the works!
YAY! Can’t wait!
I thought “Mine!” was their slogan. Perhaps it’s just their battle cry.
With my 3 year old everything is “Because I want to!” right down to; “why are you crying?” “Because I want to!” lol
His eyes narrowing was the best detail!
LOVE how Crappy Baby narrows his eyes as he waxes philosophical at his brother! Perfectly captures how a toddler looks when they know they are saying something profound
“I can, because I do.” The more you say it, the funnier it is.
When I was a preschool teacher one day during lunch a 2.5 year old boy started dipping his pasta in his cup of milk. I asked him to stop and he said “Its ok. I’m a boy”….Hard to argue with that logic.
Every time I ask my three year old when something happened he always answers, “When I am a boy!” as if it is self-evident.
Beyond awesome; I know I’m a tad past toddler, but I think this will be my motto as well … because.
Can be applied to so, SO many things…
You can’t flush your cars down the toilet!
I can because I do.
You can’t bring that huge toad in the house!
I can because I do. (!!!!!)
You can’t rip all the pages out of Mommy’s new magazine B4 she’s had a chance to read it.
I can because I do.
You can’t play drumsticks on the HD television set!
ICBID (Sorry, got lazy. love acronyms.)
Brilliant
Your child is brilliant!!!! Shared on twitter.
My kids use professional grade watercolors (I bought them before I had kids and thought I was going to learn how to paint, and then realized it is really hard). They are always mixing the colors all up, and then they want me to squirt them “fresh colors” every time, even though they didn’t use up all the paint from last time. >:(
Trademark it and sell it to Nike for their next marketing slogan!
Well, that needs to go on a t-shirt.
The Yoda of Toddlers
That is one of my favorite pictures I have ever seen of yours. Carppy baby saying that, his look and crappy boys look. LOVE IT! And very profound, I will try to use it!
Devan
Reminds me Beezus & Ramona. I vaguely remember something about them painting and how Beezus was painting a Pegasus and Ramona was destroying the paint brush by squishing it against the paper instead of using a stoke. And how that irritated Beezus to no end.
Yes! Oh how I love those books.
Me too! I really should re-read them as an adult.
I’m reading them to my son now. We finished all the Henry Huggins first, so he thought she was a pest. But now – seeing how much she actually has in common with him – he likes her a lot. You should totally read them again. Come to think of it, so should some teachers who have no understanding of responding to spirit, except to kill it…
my absolute favorite part is your artistic rendering of crappy baby’s narrowing of the eyes. i see that expression from our toddler all. the. time.
This is PERFECT.
Fantastic.
My 4 year old is a big fan of the words “sure” and “actually”.
“Hayden, do you want a cookie?”
“No. Well, ACTUALLY, I do.” (“Actually needs” to be said in italics and rather dramatically.)
or…
“Well SURE I do”. (“Sure” must be said a few pitches higher than normal tone and a bit louder than the rest of the words.)
kids♥
I only know that “I think, therefore I am” is Descartes because of Monty Python’s “Philosopher’s Drinking Song”. Not quite sure what that says about me…
BTW, I could totally see the Crappy Kids being related to my husband with their profound awesomeness and quotability. Did you happen to birth a Crappy Hippie at the age of, er, five?
Rene descartes
was a drunken f…
Yep that is where I get most of my philosophy knowledge, definitely a useful crib sheet
I love the actual look in crappy baby’s eyes…death stare!!
Poor Descartes. He’s funny too! He just can’t figure out how to get more Facebook fans! DAMN THOSE OTHER PHILOSOPHERS and their funny someecards! (I’m totally not projecting here, like, at all.)
My favorite Philosophy joke:
To be is to do ~Aristotle
To do is to be ~Descartes
Do be do be do ~Sinatra
Yup, just snorted with this comment.
Hee hee hee, always worth reading the comments as well as super posts as get that accumulation of funniness which makes my eybrows and lips tremble. Cheeks hurt too. I like the way Crappy Boy’s eyebrows have drooped as if to say: ‘no answer to that is there’..
Sorry, eyebrows on the brain (where they should be) – meant his mouth had drooped
LOVE this!!!!
That is really cute!
Descartes reincarnated
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Tres cool.
Can’t wait for the tshirts!
x sannah
My 3 year old daughter has taken to adding the word “actually” in front of everything. Such as:
Actually, I amn’t tired. (when harangued to get jammies on)
Actually, dat is my drink (while backwashing in my waterbottle)
Actually, yoos guys are hurting my ears. (when asked to wait while adults are talking)
While not overly profound, it is a creative way to turn the tables on those that have the nerve to ask her to do nearly anything. But as a parent of a nearly 20 year old also, I have to say that the teen years are this exact thing. They’re just bigger.
I love it. Sooo true.
I need a shirt in 2T please;) Oh, and one for the mama in M. Might as well start using it to my own advantage…
2 year old says “I cry because I have tears” — scientist husband says “your logic isn’t making sense”
Maybe he’s been listening to a little too much Panic at the Disco?
“You could, cause you can, so you do”!
love it!
crappy baby’s “angry eyes” at the end. you kill me.
Just so you know, “I can because I do” is my new mantra. Thank you!
We have had a similar argument here when my three year old son takes a toy from his sister. I tell him he can’t do that and he says, “Yes, I can. I do it all the time.”
My three year old’s standard response when I ask why he did whatever he just did (running a truck over his brother’s head, pooping on the bath mat, locking all of our bedroom and bathroom doors and then shutting them) is to say, “Because I did.”
Great quote, I want it!
Seriously – please make a toddler shirt. I’ll buy it.
This is even funnier for me because we own a holiday home in Descartes, France, named after and home of the great philosopher. We have attended the museum in Descartes (which is all in French) and understood nothing of why he was famous. But now, reading this blog, I understand. In toddler speak. Thank you!!
ROFL!!! I want that shirt!!
Gosh – I see this happening already with my two boys. Eldest always telling my youngest “You can’t do that!” only to be ignored and overridden by the Higher Authority, i.e. me!
This is funny! I remember how I was like that when I had an activity with my older sister back in the old days! Ha ha! Sometimes a kid’s going to be a brat because he can, but I guess most kids undergo that stage. I eventually outgrew that when I began grade school. (:
this is best!!!
Oh, how I LOVE this!
Completely brilliant. I will buy that shirt!
This is so funny! It reminds me of when my 3 year old daughter kept doing this weird thing where she would clear her throat constantly. She would make a grunting sound. I started to imitate her whenever she would do it, and she got mad at me and said “Stop doing what I do!” I asked, “Why?” She then said “Because I do what I do!”