Today as I was getting lunch ready, X-man told me he wanted an orange with his macaroni & cheese. I have no problem with that!
Then he told me he wanted to eat the orange first so the macaroni won't bounce in his tummy.
Wha?
And after he said "bounce," Buttercup kept saying, "Bounce! Bounce!" and tried to hop (she can't get off the ground yet) all over the kitchen.
My kids keep me young!
Howdy-no neighbor! Just me...with more funny things my kids say...imagine that!
Here's the setup: Last night we put up the Christmas tree and had dinner in the living room. I got X-man a Sprite and he was very excited because he only gets soda about once a week, so this was fun. Anyway, we were done with the tree and X-man was standing by the fireplace. All I could see from the couch was from his chest up.
He looked at me a little concerned and said, "Uuuhhh, dere are two tings going on here." I looked at him, giggled a bit and asked him what he said...I wasn't sure I understood. "Mommy, dere are two tings..."
Daddy gets the bright idea to ask him what was happening. What a smarty! =)
X-man said, "This drink spilled [his sprite was all over the fireplace] and I tee-teed in my pants." The fact that he said this so matter-of-factly just cracked me up! I'm going to have to remember to be so calm when stuff all around me is falling apart!
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This afternoon when X-man got up from his nap, he asked me if he could play a computer game. I told him yes and he gave me a big hug and said, "That makes my heart feel better!" I'm pretty sure he meant playing on the computer and not the hug. In fact, at school before Thanksgiving the kids all made turkeys and the teacher wrote what they were thankful on it. X-man was thankful for playing on the computer.
I am constantly laughing at the things this boy says sometimes!
Just a few days ago, we picked up the kids from their week-long visit with Granddaddy. As we pulled up to the house, X-man noticed the, oh, 20 mushrooms in the front yard (TC and I had also been gone on a week-long vacation of our own!). So, he asked if he could go see them. Daddy said, "Yes, but don't touch them." X-man said, "Oh, I never touch mushrooms!" (with a great dramatic voice!) And would you imagine he proceeded to go right to them and touch them? (of course you would believe it!)
Buttercup and X-man were sitting on the couch and Buttercup dropped her toy. X-man picked it up and I said to Buttercup, "What do you say?" She looked straight at X-man and said, "tan too!" X-man said, "You're welcome! Mommy, I said 'You're welcome!'" He's quite proud of himself using his polite words...and he's working on "teaching" them to his little sister! Awwwww!
I was getting lunch ready and I was making peanut butter and honey sandwiches (or just peanut butter on bread is how X-man likes them). X-man told me he wanted "boy peanut butter." I knew exactly what he meant. We are a his and hers peanut butter household (thanks for that phrase, ^starshine!). I like creamy and TC likes crunchy. The fact that X-man logic-ed out that it meant the kind daddy likes is "boy kind" cracks me up. What cracks me up even more is that I'm always talking about how I prefer "girl" chocolate chip cookies over the "boy" kind.
I'll let you kick that around for a bit. Got it? Yep, I like my chocolate chip cookies without nuts. Ha ha ha!
These are X-man's three little monsters. Yes, my friends, I think we have our first imaginary friends!
They've only been here for two days but X-man has taken them to bed with him and they even went with us to sushi for lunch today. And X-man did a great job of telling them how to act in a restaurant. Such a good boy!
Yesterday we were eating lunch and X-man said there was a monster in the kitchen! This isn't too surprising as he talks about the monsters...the friendly one from Word World and the scary one from Bugs Bunny. And last weekend we watched Monsters, Inc. several times on our trip out of town and back.
So, there was a monster in the kitchen and X-man clarified that it was a scary monster. Well, he wanted to scare it away so he roared at it. And Buttercup roared. I just laughed! Another monster appeared in the living room and we scared that one away, too.
Then one showed up in the kitchen again and X-man said, "Look! The scary monster brought a little monster and he's friendly!" Yea for friendly monsters!
So, that little monster sat on the table (X-man told him to be polite at the table) and the little monster sat on the couch while I read X-man his pre-nap book. Then the monster went to bed with X and even got covered up under the blankets. Several minutes later I went to check on X and he told me there were 3 little monsters on the bookshelf and he asked me to get them and put them in bed with him. I scooped them up and plopped them right next to X. I asked X if they had names and he said, "I don't know they names. We'll find out later."
The first thing he said to daddy when he got home yesterday was, "Here are my three little monsters, daddy!"
They finally got names this morning at breakfast.
Incidentally, my sister and I had imaginary friends. Shockapocka and Pooley. If I remember correctly, Pooley was my friend and Shockapocka was my sister's. Shockapocka was always getting in trouble. No further commentary on that... =)
Overheard in the living room while I was cooking dinner: "X-man, we do not vacuum our sister!"
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I love how Buttercup says her brother's name: Nah-nooh
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I was talking to my parents about a long ago memory of the first time I met TC's parents and that I wanted to make a good impression. My mom said I obviously did...and then I made two little good impressions. I said, "Yes, I made two really cute impressions!" So X-man looked at me and said, "Did you make me?" I told him yes, daddy and I made him.
Then he looked at me and said, "Then you had to let me dry."
Ha!
The backstory to this could get cumbersome, so I'll make it simple. We were discussing how we were people/persons with X-man (one person, two or more people was a little over his head) and daddy said, "You are a person."
X-man looked at daddy with a very concerned look on his face and said, "I am not a person!"
Daddy said, "Well, what are you?"
X-man said, "I'm a gentleman boy!"
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Tonight X-man wanted to take a bath with Buttercup. He likes playing with her in the bathtub and it's fun with all four of us in the bathroom!
They were playing just fine and Buttercup started to sing...more like hollering, but it was a happy holler. X-man clouded up, pouted his lip, looked at me and with tears running down his cheeks said, "Buttercup's hollering at me!" And he started wailing so Buttercup thought it was just in response to her song so she started singing louder! And you know how resonant the bathroom is!! (You do, don't you? Yes, I've practiced my flute in there several times...it just sounds so pretty!) X-man just kept crying and didn't stop until I took Buttercup out of the tub!
Anyway, I'm not sure what set X-man off about Buttercup's singing, but I'd have been laughing at him if it wasn't so pitiful!
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We bought Wii Music today. It's a cute little game and X-man was more interested in watching than actually playing. And the one time we tried to let him play (I think we picked the xylophone) he couldn't get the wii remote and nunchuck moving with enough force for it to register. Anyway, one of the songs on there is "Daydream Believer" so we played that song. TC started singing and out comes, "Cheer up Sweet BaJean!" I almost fell over laughing! He said he didn't think those were the real words but they fit...and he wasn't interested in looking up the real ones (Cheer up sleey Jean).
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And lest one thinks that *I* never mess up the words to a song, I'll go ahead and tell some on me. I don't remember the setting, but I was singing along to Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" and at one point I said, "To me you're like a rolling dictionary did ya know, yeah.*" I thought TC was going to hurt himself laughing! He didn't know what the real words were, but he was 100% certain that Seal wasn't singing about a rolling dictionary and what was that, anyway? I told him I had this interesting picture of a rolodex in a graveyard. I know...weird. And of course I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Aerosmith song "Loving it in Lovington" or George Strait's "I'm a River by Mornin'!"
So, any interesting song lyrics you've messed up lately?
*"To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny"
(at least to me)
X-man says the funniest things and I love the way he puts his phrases together. TC calls him Yoda sometimes!
At church, one of the ladies in the nursery told us that there's a little girl in the same room as X-man whose name is Ella. For some reason, she decided that her name was going to be Ki-Ki for the day. She went around telling everyone her name was Ki-Ki and finally X-man went up to her and very emphatically said, "Ella!" Like, you crazy girl, your name is Ella!
One time while I was nursing Buttercup, X-man wanted me to read him a book. For some reason, I asked him to count to ten before I'd read it. I was probably having let-down and wanted to make sure Buttercup stayed latched on so I didn't spray her! Well, now every time I'm nursing Buttercup and X-man wants to read, he'll bring me a book and say, "Woh, two, pee, por, pie, sis, seben, eigh, nie, ten-d!"
X-man is getting really good with two-word phrases to tell us what he wants. Oh, we still have "conversation frustration" but he's so talkative and is picking up so many words (our little tape recorder...). On Friday, he was saying "peh-beh pee" which, translated, is Pretzels Please. I told him he'd need to wait until Buttercup was through eating. I can do several things at once and sometimes walk around with Buttercup while she's nursing, but I couldn't do that and pour pretzels into a bowl.
So, Buttercup got through eating and I said, "X-man, would you like some pretzels for your tummy?"
He looked at me a little puzzled and said, "No. Peh-beh bowh." Like, duh mommy, pretzels for my bowl not my tummy!!
Oh, and Buttercup has started to vocalize. I don't really remember noticing that X-man did that, but she'll be lying on the floor and just make cute little noises.
And X-man loves to point out the fact that she's talking. His newest thing is to get in her face (that part's not new...she's going to figure out how to work those fists of hers and punch his lights out one of these days for getting so close!) and say, "yeh-ma'am." He knows that you say "yes, ma'am" to mommy and to Buttercup!
Too cute!
