After dinner at Chick-Fil-A: "My balloon is going to get out of my car and say 'How dark it is!'"
While trying to get said balloon on his own at the counter: "I was hanging on a big shelf and no one would hear me."
After I asked him why he couldn't do something one day: "It was too big a job for one little boy."
On a warmish day after a cold spell: "This is the hottest day in five years!"
When explaining himself: "I are freezing so I needed just one candy."
A frequent plaintive request involving his younger brother: "Can we read on the couch? And you make E. not grab the book?"
While looking over my shoulder at a recipe in a women's magazine: "We need to make these cookies with candy in them. I think you will like them a lot."
After finding a pad of paper on which I often write shopping lists, while bustling around the room: "Where is the library? Where are the houses? We need to buy all these numbers."
Later, while still carrying that same pad of paper: "On my shopping list I have food: oranges and eggs and food. I need to go to the dollar store."
As you can see, one of the results of this increase in language has been a little light shining on some of my own habits, which is entertaining, if a tad frightening. For example, J has taken to telling E "You're driving me NUTS" whenever E tries to swipe a toy. Hmmm, I wonder where he heard that? J also expresses himself VERY dramatically. When something isn't operating correctly, he moans "This is NEVER EVER going to work." When he is told to apologize for misbehaving, he says emphatically "I am going to NEVER do that again!" And he begins almost any story by telling you the bad part first, as in his description of a trip to a dinosaur museum. Even now, a month later, when telling the tale, he begins "And I didn't want to leave! But we had to go and I didn't WANT to! And we saw a T-rex with big teeth and a long tail and funny ears and there was a skeleton and it was big and there was a picture of a stegosaurus and a head of a dinosaur I did not know very well....etc." AND, perhaps most telling of all, J never met a story he didn't want to tell, again and again, ad infinitum. Does any of this remind you of anyone???
1 comment:
So Funny! :) He is getting to be very funny. My personal Fave - "What?!?! Lions?!?!?"
~ Lane
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