Dylanisms

Dylan says such funny things that we have started referring to his sayings as Dylanisms. Here are some of our favorites from the past few months. They're written "to" Dylan because they came from his journal that I keep for him. They're really cute though!

• You have such a keen sense of smell. You always ask, “Mom, what smells like that?” One night on the way home from Alicia’s house, we passed a skunk on the road and you asked me what the smell was. I told you it was a skunk. You said, “Why it smells like that?” I told you it was because a car hit it. I didn’t even think about it, but you were so sad. You started to cry and said, “Mom, I miss my skunk friend. When he’s coming to our house.” You just love your little animal friends.


• We caught a grasshopper and you put it in a little bug box you have. It had been several days and the grasshopper died. I didn’t mention it, but you saw the box one day and asked about him. I said, “Honey, the grasshopper died.” You said in a sad voice, “Oh, is he in the hostibal?”


• I had bent down to give you a kiss goodnight and you were combing my hair with your fingers. They kind of got stuck and you said, “Mommy, is that a ‘tot’ in your hair?” I said, “It’s called a knot.” You said, “Oh, a lot in your hair?” I just laughed. Then you said, “Why it’s called a lobster?” And as I walked out the door, you asked me to comb it one more time. Then you said, “Okay, Mom. I think I got the monsters out.” That’s what we tell you after we brush your teeth. The whole conversation was just so funny!


• You colored all over my activity days’ papers one day and I said, “Dylan, you colored all over my papers?” You said, “Mommy, but it’s so beautiful” in a sweet little voice. Nice try.


• You are so protective of Preston. We put him to bed a little later than you and you didn’t understand why he didn’t have to go to sleep. I explained that he still had to eat before bed. You really love it when he eats rice cereal. Now when I tell you he’s going to eat before he comes into his crib to sleep, you ask if he’s going to have cereal. If I say “no” or “maybe” you beg me to feed him cereal. When I say “okay” you say, “Oh thank you, Mom. Just feed him very carefully so he won’t choke.”


• You were so excited on September 24, 2007. You figured out how to put your own shirt on. You have been able to help and take clothes off, but this was the first day you actually put your own shirt on by yourself. You put it on backwards once and I was trying to help you figure out how to turn it around. You kept putting the same arm in the wrong hole. You finally got it and said, “Mom, I swixed it.” Kind of a combination of “fixed” and “switched”. You thought about it and tried to change the word, but it seemed right to you so you finally settled on “swixed.”


• You were playing with a Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle one day and yelled, “Mom, ‘engine’ turtles can fly.” You are convinced that they are engine turtles and not ninja turtles.


• You were eating a carton of yogurt and said, “Mom, I want some more gorilla gravy.” Everything seems to taste better to you if it is animal food.


• One day I was kicking the soccer ball with you and you said, “Mom, say pollege.” I asked you what that meant. You said, “Pollege!” Finally I asked you what pollege is. The only thing I could think of was college and I didn’t think you would be talking about college. You said, “It’s like soup.” Oh, you were talking about porridge like in Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. I told you it is called porridge and you insisted it was pollege.


• We drove by Hill Air Force Base museum and you said, “Mom, look space rockets.” They really do look like space rockets so I said, “Oh, yeah.” You said, “How they’re not ‘lasting’ off?” meaning blasting off. You are just so funny. There are several of these sayings almost every day. I wish I had a tape recorder so I would remember them all!


• We went to visit the neighbor cat and you were telling me all about her. You said, “This cat doesn’t like dogs.” You thought for a minute and then said, “She has wonderful teeth.”


• I let you help take the CD out of the car one day. You pushed the button and were so amazed that it just popped out. I took it from you quickly so you wouldn’t scratch it. You still weren’t sure what to do or say so you looked back at the CD player and said, “Thank you for the CD.”


• We were leaving McDonald’s drive thru and you said, “Mom, it won’t go up.” I didn’t know what you were talking about so I asked you. You said, “The clopper that clops the drinks.”


• You were helping to wipe Preston’s mouth and you said, “Mom, we need to get a ‘wec wag’ for Preston.”


• You and Papi were upstairs playing and Papi was getting pretty tired. You just had way too much energy. He decided he would play the “sleep game” to calm you down a little so you basically pretended you were going to sleep. I wandered upstairs to see why it was so quiet and you were both there under the covers pretending to sleep. You said, “Hey mom, what are you doing here? We’re trying to sleep. Don’t ‘bee-sturb’ us.” It was pretty funny!


• Preston was pretty fussy in the car later that day and you put your arms out as if you ask a question and said, “Mom, I don’t know what to do with this boy.”


• Mommy was taking Preston to his doctor appointment and he was pretty fussy. We were on the freeway and I was trying to keep his binkie in his mouth. I finally said out loud, “Preston, if you drop your binkie again, you’re on your own. I can’t keep getting it for you.” I was basically talking to myself, but you leaned over to him and said, “That’s okay, bud. I can get it for you.”


• I told you that I needed to floss your teeth. You said, “I want to sloss them.”


• One night, you were using two q-tips like a train and chugging them. I think they were like the metal part that connects the wheels to you. You wanted to put them down, but not put them away. I think you wanted to save them to play with later. You put them in Preston’s little pink Tupperware thing that holds his binkies and stuff. You said, “I need to put away my ‘train puffs’ so Anthony won’t get into them.”


• Mommy was feeding Preston one morning and you came over by me to talk to him. He looked up at you and you were talking to him and playing with him so cute. He lifted his hand up towards you so you grabbed his hand and said, “Nice to meet you Preston.” It was so cute!


• Papi asked Mommy one morning if she wanted another baby. He said, “Don’t you want a little girl? Or just another baby?” I didn’t answer very quickly, but you sure were quick to. You said, “Yeah, let’s have another baby. Let’s go to the hostibal and get another baby.” You sure love being a big brother.


• When we were planning a day to go look at new cars you asked if we were going to look at cars. When I told you yes, you said, “Oh yeah, we’re going to look at cars huh? We’re going to look at a meaty van huh?” You had heard us debating whether or not to buy a car or a van and you think it’s called a meaty van.


• Our car has had so many problems lately. It’s been a really stressful few weeks in a row. One day, you said, “Oh no, is our car broken?” and practically started crying. Apparently you do catch on to the stress we feel.


• One day, Mommy and Papi were trying to make a plan for the day. We were talking back and forth to work out the details of the day. You went over to Papi and said, “No, this is not exactly what’s going to happen here.” It was so grown up sounding. We had to laugh, even though we had to tell you not to talk like that because you were being a little bossy and rude.


• You were telling me you wanted to go to Tarzanland. I thought I misunderstood you, but that’s what you were saying. I asked you where Tarzanland was and you said “in You Nork”. Funny boy! Who knows where you get this stuff.


• Mommy’s been trying to teach you to say “may I.” You just don’t quite understand. You start to say, “Can I go swimming?” and you stop yourself mid-sentence and say, “Can I, may go swimming?” Close enough!


• You were in the bathtub in July scooping up some water with a measuring cup. You said, “Mom, I’m making some copy.” I asked you what “copy” was and you said, “It’s for my special recipe.” My guess is you were making coffee, although I have no idea where you heard about coffee. You proceeded to make “copy” with two cups of sugar, one cup of flour…


• One day you asked me, “Mom, will you learn me this puzzle.”


• Another day something similar happened. I was cutting an onion and you asked why I was crying. I told you about the onion making my eyes water. I guess you didn’t make the connection though because when the strong smell of the onion reached you, you didn’t know what to do. You started yelling and asked what had happened to your eyes. I had to take you away from the kitchen and explain that the onion was making you cry too.


• One day you were eating ice cream. You looked over at me nervously and kind of started to cry. It took me a minute to realize you had brain freeze and weren’t sure what was happening to your head.


• Your prayers are just so sincere and innocent. You really do just talk to God when you’re praying. You talk about what you are thinking and feeling right then. It’s unusual and yet so touching in a way that you would want to thank Heavenly Father for whatever you are thinking about and grateful for at that moment. Some examples of things you have said in your prayers include, “thank you for helping Mason be nice”, “thank you that we can not bite”, “thank you that Bell could sleep in my bed and that she’s wagging her tail”, “thank you for Tony”, “thank you for our prophet”, “thank you for Bishop Kjar”, “thank you that we could play outside”… the list goes on and on. You are just so cute!


• We were tending Bell for Alicia and Nate in July. You loved the whole thing. You fed her, walked her, filled her water, and just wanted to play with her non-stop. She rolled over once and you were petting her belly. You looked over at me and said, “Mom, I’m touching her milk tanks.”


• One day your tonsils were really bothering you. You’re just so tough so when it seems like something’s bothering you, I know it’s really bad. You looked at me with this look of fear and pain, opened your mouth and kind of stuck your tongue out and then said, “Um, mom, I think there’s a ‘ploblem’ in my mouth.”


• Your tonsils have really been bothering you. One day you weren’t feeling very well and you said, “Mom, can you burp me?” You wanted me to hold you and pat your back and that was your way of communicating that with me.


• Abuela went to get some gas medicine for Preston at Mylo’s birthday party. We ran out and he was pretty fussy. You were ready to go (especially since you only had your tonsils out 4 days before so you weren’t feeling the best). I told you we had to wait until Abuela came back with the medicine. When Abuela came in you said, “Thank you so much for bringing the special medicine for my baby, Abuela.” It was so sweet.