What Magnus Said...

Quotes from Dubai:

Hears what he wants to hear:

Kendrick: <cheerful voice> Magnus, if you don't listen to mommy, you will get a punishment, do you know what a punishment is? ...

Magnus: <begins to mouth the word chocolate and ignores his Daddy's explanation of punishment>

Gina: <tries to feed Magnus spinach>

Magnus: <dodges spinach>

Kendrick: <still cheerful voice> Uh oh, time for a punishment!

Magnus: <excited> YEAH!!!!

Violence on TV:

Grandma: <to Maya> If you keep kicking, you're going to backwards some more, and you might hit your head, and then you are gonna cry...

Magnus: and a lot of BLOOD!!!

(he learned this from a Pingu episode)

Showing off new vocabulary:

Magnus: <to the security guard> No Uncle, Daddy's GPS says…. "Arriving at destination on the right"

Cantonese:

Gina: How does gong-gong say fart?

Magnus: Aw Pay!!!

It's lonely without eggs:

Magnus: No Grandma, Daddy ate aaall the eggs, and then Magnus and Mommy were all alone!

Gina: <correcting> and then Mommy and Magnus had none.

Likes to assess his output:

Magnus: Wow, that a lot of pee, and there are bubbles too!

Quotes from Toronto:

 

After snubbing a relative at the mall:

Magnus: No, Po po, he don't want to say hi to auntie, he want to go home!

Popo: Next time, Magnus, you have to say HI.  It's important!

Magnus: It not important!!

Washing hands for the first time in Toronto:

Magnus: Wow! It... super... cold!!!

(tap water never gets cold in Dubai)