At nap time, I read Andy his book, put the chair in the laid back position and hear “Ahhhhh, have a good sleep, myself!”
Advice
Evie came into my room this morning saying “Ow, ow, ow.” Then she said “I have some advice for you. Don’t hold a lego in the hand you knock with!”
More Logic
I let Andy help me dry when I do dishes but plastic stuff only, of course. He asked me if he could help me dry today and since there wasn’t much plastic, I told him I didn’t really have anything for him to dry. His response was “How come you say you don’t have anything for me to dry when these are all wet?”
Kid jokes
Evie: “Nana, what is a silly weapon?”
Nana: “I don’t know, what?”
Evie: “A shenanigun!”
Reading
We’ve been wondering for awhile now if Andy can read. A couple days ago while walking into Home Depot, he clearly read STOP written on the ground. It wasn’t a red stop sign so it wasn’t a case of recognizing a symbol. Today I had a shirt on that says I’m Lost. He ran his fingers across the letters in lost and while he pronounced it with a long O, he said lost clear as a bell. That’s reading. He also can count up to 100, even backwards for a ways, knows the alphabet and all the sounds, upper case and lower case, is doing some basic math. All that besides the things like colors and shapes and what have you. Even things like trapezoids and stuff I don’t even know. In other words, he’s pretty far ahead of where he should be. I can’t say as I agree with watching TV every minute of the day, but, boy, has he learned A LOT!!!
Sports
Andy helps Mama put away folded clothes. She gave him a stack and asked him to put it in his old crib. He put it over the side, shot his hands in the air and shouted “He scores!”
Geology
Andy went poop in the toilet for the first time. Having never seen it before, he looked into the toilet and said “Hey, it turned into potty rocks!”
Math at 3 and a half
This morning Andy said he was done with breakfast but Mama said he hadn’t eaten enough and he needed to take 3 more bites. He did but Mama told him the bites were too small so he needed to eat 2 more. His immediate response was “That will be 5 bites!”. She agreed and they proceeded to continue adding extra bites doing the math until he ate the whole thing.
Stuffy noses
Andy has a stuffy nose. In order to explain that, he says “Look what my nose have done!”
Ballet
Andy asked me if I wanted to see his ballet tricks. Only he pronounces it bal-la-lay. Heh!