Giggles and Grins

Don’t you love it when you are busy doing something, like cleaning after lunch, and a child is talking to you and you are only half-way listening—enough to say uh-huh, that’s nice, etc. Kaden was doing that a few minutes ago and somewhere in my belated hearing I heard him say (I was slicing him a piece of bread) “Mommy, I really like that kind of knife—if you rub it softly on your hand, it tickles”. . . “Uh-huh, that’s nice” Wait a minute. “Did you just say. . .” I need to listen to my kids a little better.

He and Ammon have been having quite the conversations lately. Kaden pointing out the world the way he sees it, and Ammon agreeing and learning from him then putting in his own 2 cents. “Hey, I just saw a picture of you and Daddy and you kissed when you got married”—Has he never noticed that since?

These two hooligans have been saying things lately that are just very funny, and I keep thinking I need to write them down and then forget. So I am sure I have much funnier ones to share but for now these will have to do.

Ammon: "Daddy is working with his toodles" (tools)

"Mommy, can we please ride the alligator?" (elevator)

There are a lot from Kaden lately that are cracking me up. So bear with me. Maybe I should take some kind of action instead of laughing.

Kaden:

#1: Trav was having a heart to heart talk with him earlier this week, asking his favorite color, favorite number, then asked his favorite thing to do. The answer was "My favorite thing to do is. . . eat".

#2: The next day I had a couple pf friends over playing and was being nosy trying to get new ideas for dinner so we don't eat the same 3 meals our whole lives. Anderson's favorite dinner was mashed potatoes and gravy, Ava's was stuffing, Noah's was sweet and sour chicken, and then I asked Kaden. He said "ohhh, there is too many--I think I love every dinner".

#3: Yesterday I was in the talking to the kids and said, "guess what we need to do tonight?" Noah said "b-a-t-h?" and I said "yep!". Then Kaden piped in in a slightly panicked voice. "AND we need to eat more food today still!"

#4: Lately when we are doing the "highs and lows" by the Christmas tree, Kaden's low is that we didn't go to eat at any restaurants that day. Oh yeah, I just thought of a couple more. . .

#5: We were in the grocery store and he saw something that looked good to him, and I said off-handedly, "well it's sure not very healthy--it has a lot of sugar in it. And he said. "I really like things that are bad for me sometimes!--and I really like sugar".

#6: Oh, and when he was in Pre-K in Florida--Every day I would ask him how school was and what he did, and all he could remember is what was for snack (it was always very bad, by the way--why do they do that?) and that based his whole opinion of his day.

He also makes sure that if someone else doesn't finish their dinner (as long as it's the right dinner), that it doesn't go to waste "okay, I guess I'll just finish Ammon's."

Hmmm. Is there a trend to all of these funny things he is saying? And should I worry about him? Anyone who knows Kaden is not surprised by this. He was born wanting to nurse ALL the time--seriously. It didn't just seem like it. My friend Marian would take him from me and try to hold him off. Our first goal was to go 2 1/2 hours, but in the end we settled for an hour and a half between feedings, and that was with having to make him really mad first. When he started solids, I 6 months but gave in before that because he wanted it so badly, and he was a pro from the start. He did try to tell me the other day that he likes the healthy food just as much or more than the others, though. I think he just wanted my approval at the moment. . .

Speaking of worrying about Kaden, he also tells me he really like the bad guys and fighting in movies. I tried to get them to watch "The Miracle on 34th street" yesterday with me, and he complained the whole time and asked if their were any bad guys in this movie. I said the psychiatrist sure wasn't very nice, and apparently the guy was not bad enough for him. I think the only part that he like was when Kris Kringle hit the psychiatrist on the head with his cane. Noah wasn't really like this, so it does worry me a little sometimes. But it could all be normal little boy things, right?