Top Five Overheard This Week: Sparkle and Pumpkin

Sparkle:

1. "But this is HORRIBLE for me!" (We had told him he had to stay outside and play until we were done cleaning up the kitchen.  Torture!)

2. "I can NEVER win at Go Fish!" (You would not believe how much fun they have playing this game.  Beloved and I keep chuckling over the intensity and drama of it all.)

3. "But my bed is LUMPY and COLD!" (He wanted to come sleep in our bed at 3 AM.)

4. "You're not LISTENING TO MY WORDS!" (This was shortly followed by a running tackle and forced surrender of whatever it was Pumpkin had taken.)

5. "I think Skittles are HEALTHY for me!" (Um, no, Baby.  And besides, those are Mama's Skittles.)

Pumpkin:

1. "Happy Sanksgibbing!  I love you!" (To his teacher when he left school on Wednesday)

2. "Wanna come to my PARTY?!" (To everyone he meets.  No idea what this is about.)

3. "Wanna come to my FOOTBALL GAME?!  I'm a HIGH-SCHOOLER!" (Also to everyone he meets.  We told him that, yes, in fact, we are going to allow him to go to high school, and that he can play football if he wants to.  High school football players are his idols!)

4. "Where's the freakin' 'N' ?"  (Muttered to himself while playing with alphabet fridge magnets.  No idea where he could have picked that up.  Ahem.)

5. "You're my precious Mama." (Heart-breakingly sweet, delivered with a hug at bedtime.  He and I have a little ritual where I tell him, "You're my precious son.  You're my youngest child.  You're my favorite three year old.  You're my strong, brave boy.  You're my snuggly baby."  And we continue on for a while.  Usually this is when he's settling down in bed.  I include important things from the day, like "You're my boy who's learning to put ALL his poop in the toilet," for example.  It doesn't always go exactly like that, but I almost always start with "You're my precious son.")

Comments

[Heidi-happy mom]

I love hearing these, they are all the things I bet we will forget but are so precious.

the things they think up and pick up!

you have such cute boys.

[wendy]

So, so cute! :-)

[Denise]

Too, too funny! I love this one... "You're not LISTENING TO MY WORDS!"

How many times do we tell them to 'use their words'? I love it!

[Leigh]

those are funny and I think I can relate to the not listening to my words one!

Cody has just discovered Old Maids, Go Fish and Uno. Of the three, I think he likes Old Maids the best. I'm just having trouble getting him to understand he needs to let go of the cards.