Monday, March 22, 2010

kids really do say the darnest things...

School is really kicking me in the behind this semester but I'm sure I will triumph. Too bad I've missed on writing about all the funny comments from lil man...but this one...couldn't let this one go.
Yesterday evening, our trip to Targee turned out to be more than we had bargained for. I had a couple very specific things that I needed to purchase, BUT as it almost always turns out, my hands were full by the time I got to the counter. Get this, I specifically did not get a cart or a basket for this very reason but as we were getting out of the store both lil man's hands and I were sore from lugging all the items we had picked. So my lil helper and I paid, got them in bags and as we were walking from the store, he comments "My arms are so tired, I feel like they are going to fall off!"
"Me too honey, " I replied "but just hang in there the car is not far."

As we walk out the door trying to hurry to the car, lil man asks in a matter-of-fact voice "If my arms fall off, I'm I going to grow some new ones?"
First I did what I always do, laugh out loudly (inwardly of course), looked at him and just smiled because I could see he was serious. I know they have been learning about reptiles and he has a fascination with lizards and what nots..you get my drift.

"No honey, only lizards and other such reptiles grow parts when they loose them."
"Oh yeah, I knew that," came the reply.

I've caught myself laughing so hard the couple times I have thought about this. Kids...my lil man.

Monday, March 8, 2010

big words, lil man

I think every working mom knows that if you get your kid out the door in one piece and one time, it's going to be a good day. So today I was up early, made some cheese eggs, we had some leftover breakfast sausage which I warmed up. My picky eater decided that the eggs did not have enough cheese so he got some toast. My lil man nowadays seems filled with doses of wisdom. I asked him if he wanted jam or butter on his toast. He responded by stating that it is not 'jam', it's 'jelly'. "Jam is extinct, mommy, don't know, we are in the future". LOL. Apparently I'm so old I don't realize that we don't use that word anymore according to a first grader?!
Ok so got the jelly and butter, put the not so cheesy cheese eggs on his toast, he took one bite which he happily ate but as he examined the bread for his next bite, he saw what he says is a nut in the bread. That was the end of the toast and eggs. It's whole wheat bread!! I used the same bread to make a cheese sandwich which he happily ate yesterday but noo...not today. I know my lil man, I could sit there and scream for two hours and he would take the full two hours to finish one bite of that bread.
So onto the sausage. He took one look at it, "hmmm, this looks awfully familiar mommy, did you save the sausage from yesterday?" Seriously! Anyway he ate some of the sausage, some juice and he was full.
He had a presentation on dinosaurs which he worked on over the weekend. Huge poster, would not have been my choice but his dad decided to go all out. Ok, got the poster, we are walking to the car and lil man blurts, "Man, first grade is on another level!" I'm like what did you say "First grade is on another level now mommy, they make us do presentations for 3rd and 5th grade!" LOL. I had even forgotten about the dinosaur project, that must be where he picked up the 'extinct for jam'. I guess if we learn words we gotta use them somehow.
I laughed all of the 6 minute drive to school. We made it to school on time, it's going to be a good day!