Prestonisms

Here are a few of Preston's good ones from the past six months or so. He used to say or do something funny just here and there, but has become quite a jabber box, saying the most hilarious things all day long. Sometimes I wish I could just push record and remember it all, but it's impossible. There's no way to keep up with all the little things he says. But the few I managed to remember and write down are below.

• At the zoo, Preston asked me "What do the rhinos eat? What do the giraffes eat?..." The answer to most of the questions was hay, grass or trees. I said, "Most of them eat hay or leaves. But the tigers eat meat, don't they? Do you know what snakes eat?" He thought for a long time and said, "Um, um...pineapple."
• Marcos listens to talk radio a lot and many of the talk show hosts say, "The Reverend Jesse Jackson" in a very unique, deep voice. Marcos gets a kick out of having Dylan and Preston imitate the phrase. So out of nowhere, Preston says, "Jessie, the cowgirl, Jackson" referring to Jessie on Toy Story.
• I was wrapping his finger with new gauze one night and put some Neosporin on it. He said, "Is that cream, Mom? Are you putting cream on my finger?" I replied, "Yes, bud, I'm putting cream on your finger." "You're putting cream on my finger? Is it Krispy Kreme?"
• Out of the blue, Preston says, "Should we go to the dentist and get a bag of toothpaste-es?"
• Anthony was saying, "Preston's on the case." It's a phrase off of Max and Ruby that he and Dylan use as some silly game. Preston responds, "Anthony's on the loose."
• Dylan found a leftover firecracker in the road and picked it up. I told him to leave it there. "That's dangerous. Leave it there. It's a firecracker. It's called a grenade." We dropped Dylan off and as we drove away, Preston says, "That's a firecracker. It's a green egg." He paused and then proceeded to say, "It's a blue egg. It's a yellow egg. It's an orange egg."
• Preston was terrified at the firecrackers this year. I had to sit with him in the car, in the house and once hold him on my lap covering his ears. Poor thing! I asked him afterward if he liked the firecrackers and he said, "Yeah." Then he paused while he thought and said, "No, I don't like the firecrackers." I said, "Are they too noisy?" He replied, "No, they're too popping."
• I stopped to get some Scentsy flavors from my sister, Melissa. She let Preston smell one that we liked to see what he would do. He said, "Yum...that smells like good." She picked one that was too flowery and not our favorite to see what he would say to that. He sniffed the wax and said, "Ah... ah... ah chew."
• He was jumping on the couch one day and Marcos was trying to sleep so I told him to go play on the LoveSac instead. Dylan said, "Come here, Preston. You can roughhouse with me. He didn't know what roughhouse meant so he started barking like a dog, "ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff."
• He got a candy bracelet from his teacher at Primary. He was licking it instead of biting off the individual pieces. Then he would ask everyone he saw, "Hey, you want to try? You want to share my bracelet wis (with) me?"
• Preston was wigging out one day and talking about a snake being in his mouth. I looked several times and couldn't figure out what was going on. I finally looked again and saw a hair in his mouth. I guess it was a fairly good description after all.
• We were doing a science project from Dylan's "Big Bag of Science." We were using pipettes to mix colors. Preston was putting water from the pippette into a test tube. Before long, he started saying, "Look, I'm an elephant. Look at my trunk. I'm squirting my water."
• We were making food from Africa during our Africa unit. The picture on the cover of the cookbook we checked out from the library had a picture of several children on it, one who was a little black boy. He said, "Look, it's Anthony. He's with his friends. He's cooking. He's wearing a chef's hat."
• I gave Preston some veggie straws to eat. He loves them and refers to them as "edgy straws."
• Preston had a white towel wrapped around him and a baseball hat with a bumblebee on it. He jumped down the stairs and said, "Buzz bee to the rescue."
• After quiet time, he had the same white towel wrapped around him and said, "Look I'm a chicken. I'm a chicken" flapping his wings.
• I turned on some Primary music for the kids during lunch one day. After the song, Preston said, "Mommy, can we go to church now? Pa-lease?"
• Dylan was giving Preston a piggyback ride and started spinning him around and around. Preston started yelling, "I don't like it. I don't like it." After some teasing from Dylan (of course) Dylan finally put Preston down. Preston was really dizzy and didn't know what to do when Dylan set set him down. He yelled out, "Hey, Dylan, don't spin the house!"
• We were talking about moving for awhile and Dylan was pretty concerned wondering what we would be able to take with us to a new house. He would say, "Can my stuffed animals come with us? Can my bed come with us?" One day he said, "Can the door come?" I said, "No all the doors will stay." For weeks after, Preston would randomly say, "Can the doors come?" and bust up laughing. I would have to think a minute to figure out what he was talking about since it was completely out of context when he said it.
• Preston said in his prayer, "Please bless 'nee-vo-tion-nal' (devotional)..."
• He calls Joseph Smith, Joseph "Sniff."
• We were walking up the stairs and Preston said, "I'm cold." I said, "Well, let's go get in the tub then." He said, "You're hot" and I replied, "I am?" Then he randomly replied, "Marissa smells cheeto-ee."
• We were at Sam's Club and Preston was eating a churro. He looks over at me and says, "Thanks, Mom. You're the best!"
• Out of nowhere in the car on the way to music class he starts singing, "We wish you a berry Christmas. Happy you year." I had no idea he even knew that song.
• Preston is obsessed with Toy Story. He will randomly say, "I want to buy slinky dog" or "I want to buy Mr. Potatohead." One day he said, "I want to buy the evil Dr. 'poke chalk'."