Dylanisms

Here are some of the latest and greatest from my funny boy.  He says so much that makes me laugh or amazes me that I just wish I could have a running tape recorder so I wouldn't forget anything (well, maybe I'd choose to forget all the naughty moments).  Here are a few I managed to write down so I wouldn't forget.  They're in journal format written for him to read later. 

- One day just before Thanksgiving you turned to Anthony and asked, “Hey Anthony, what are you going to thanks give me?” Apparently you think the holiday must be about giving (or getting) presents if it has the word give in it.
- I helped out with your preschool’s Halloween party. One of the games needed Halloween music so I put together a little Halloween music CD that you listened to every day for at least a month. One song on it was called “Hubble Bubble” and was about a witches brew. It says, “Hubble bubble toil and trouble all the witches say…” You kept asking me why the song was talking about “toilet trouble”.
- When we were in St. George, you told us the cave was creatchy. When we asked you what that meant you told us it meant there were creatures that lived there.
- One day you asked me if the sun was a planet. I told you no, that the sun was a star made out of lots and lots of hot gas. You thought for a minute and said, “Who just fills up the gas? The astronauts or something?”
- You had mitten day at preschool and we were talking about it in the car. I asked you if you read the story “The Three Little Kittens” and you said you had. You wanted me to repeat it so I did the best I could from memory. After the story was over, you said, “Hey Mommy, if I was a kitten I would just eat cat food, not pie.” Funny boy!
- One day you asked me what King Kong was. I started to tell you he was a great big gorilla and you promptly interrupted me and said, “No, you know the game with the table and the ball that bounces?” I said, “Oh, that’s called ping pong.” In a voice exclaiming how silly you were you said, “Oh yeah PING PONG.”
- We were sitting at Sam’s Club eating pizza when a lady with her daughter walked by with their cart. You turned to me and asked if we knew them. I told you we didn’t and you said, “Maybe I can make a friend today.”
- Abuelo brought us a sleigh with candy in it on Christmas Eve. You really liked the sleigh and were afraid Santa was going to eat all the candy that night. When we tucked you into bed that night, you showed us how you had hidden the sleigh under Preston’s crib and told us you were sure Santa wouldn’t find the candy there.
- You said to Papi one day, “Papi, you’ve been so good to me this Christmas so I’m going to share my M&M’s with you.” That spontaneous statement caused Marcos to get teary eyed. A few minutes later you asked me, “How come Papi was crying when I told him he’d been good to me? He should be happy about that.” I tried to explain that adults sometimes cry when they’re happy. Later you told me the same thing and I just laughed. You said, “Why aren’t you crying about that?” Kind of confusing with all our mixed up emotions.
- The week before Christmas you were talking about what you wanted the next year for Christmas. I said, “Let’s just worry about this Christmas first, okay bud?” The day after Christmas, Papi and I were talking about whose house we would go to at what time next year and you said, “Mommy, let’s just worry about this Christmas, okay?” Smarty pants!
- You were holding onto a strand of Christmas lights and said, “Look I’m swinging on a vine.”
- We had the playpen in the cover that has straps on it. You put the straps on and said, “Look at this heavy wagon they strapped to me.”
- I told Papi not to get us stuck in the snow when we were parking next to a snow-covered curb. You said, “Yeah, don’t get us stuck like last year at the Tree House Museum.” I couldn’t believe you remembered getting stuck on the ice the year before so I said, “How did you remember that.” You replied, “Because I’m smart, Mommy.”
- When Jonah got baptized, we talked about who was going to baptize him and you asked why Kyle wasn’t going to do it. I told you that Kyle doesn’t go to church. You said, “Why doesn’t he go to church? Does he not have dress clothes or something?” I told you he did have dress clothes, but that some people choose not to go to church. You said, “Why, does he have a headache or something?” You could not grasp the concept of someone not going to church.
- I have a hanging shoe rack and there was one hole that didn’t have shoes in it. You said, “Hey Mom, you just need one more pair. I’m going to buy you some new shoes. I think I’ll buy you wedding shoes.” I asked you why you wanted to buy me wedding shoes and said, “Should I have another wedding?” You said, “Yeah, that would be fun.” You started talking about the wedding cake and how delicious it would be and then said, “Mom when you got married was I with Heavenly Father or in your belly?” I told you that you were with Heavenly Father and you said, “Yeah, you have to get married before you have a kid, huh?”   
- I told you I needed to eat my Shredded Wheat before we could go upstairs to take a bath. You said, “Yeah, Shredded Wheat because it has wheat and Cocoa Puffs are made from coconuts.”
- You told me Kambrie couldn’t be your wife because she was going to marry Karson. I asked you if you were sad about it and you said, “No, I think I could just marry Kayla or something.” Another day we were talking about the same thing and again you said that Kambrie was going to marry Karson, but this time you said you were going to marry Hanna from your preschool because she’s really nice and she just really likes you. Funny boy. All these girls have you worried about marriage at 4 years old!