I’ve been
collecting “comments” and “conversations” for the last month and a half. As I
reread them, I smile or even laugh right out loud!
We’re especially loving the ways our Little Man experiments with words these days. (And I remember a
Little Lady making us laugh when she was about this age.)
On the second day
of school we asked our Little Man:
“Did you make any
new friends at school today?”
“No, but I made a
new teacher.”
“The air container
[his expression for air conditioner] at my school looks just like ours – but it has
a pipe that comes in from outside and another one inside that comes down the
wall into a bucket, and water comes out of it…”
When the Little
Mechanic gets frustrated because his latest MegaBloks creation isn’t fitting
together correctly (sometimes due to miscalculations on his part as designer), he exclaims:
“This isn’t
telling me the truth!”
At lunch one day
in late March, JM and I were discussing the adjectival use of past participles
in Spanish (and specifically estoy aburrido vs soy aburrido).
In the course of
the conversation we also mentioned “estoy confiado” and a few other similar examples.
DJ was trying to
glean what he could from that conversation (and obviously didn’t quite follow everything that was said) – as evidenced by his comment that evening when
he quietly confided to me:
“Daddy said
something silly today; he said: Estoy jugado but it’s really Estoy jugando.
No wonder he comes
home from school exhausted!
While trying to
get him settled a few nights later, he said to me: “Sometimes I can’t think…
But my mind is always talking.”
Yep! We can see
that!
The night before he had asked me to explain the digestive system:
“When food
goes down the goozle pipe, is the stomach shaped like ‘U’? Because otherwise
the food wouldn’t all fit…”
And just yesterday, I
overheard the following conversation:
E: “Name five
things that you do in the evening.”
DJ: “That’s too
hard!”
E: “No, it’s not!
You walk and you talk…”
DJ (excitedly
interrupting): “And I pick my nose! And I use the potty! And I pull up my clothes
after using the potty!”
I’d love to hear what all gets said
while making brick-powder-based paint...
Never a dull
moment around here!
