“You know that mom.”

“You need to watch where you are going.”

“Don’t break my track or I will be mad.”

“Can you hear my tongue moving inside my mouth?” (Stands by me moving his tongue all around while I’m in a meeting)

(Oven beeps) “Mom, the hot crossed buns are done!” Runs away singing, “Hot crossed buns, hot crossed buns. One a penny, two a penny, hot crossed buns!” Oh boy. 

“Can you calm down mom?”

“Thanks mom. You are sweet.”  (awwwww)

“We must (lots of phrases follow this start…)”

John was pretending today to be a delivery worker. And I overheard him say, “now, you have to wipe that off because it has germs on it.” It’s cute, funny, and serious all at the same time. A reminder to me that he’s always watching.

“Hiccups come out of the stomach pipe, right? When you have the hiccups you go to bed, right? Bed makes everything better.” 

“Just working on my jumping skills!”

“Nothing runs like a Deer!”

“I’m making a church. Then the churchman and the church people will be so happy and won’t be sick anymore.”

“Mom, you are a silly goose.”

“I’m pretty disappointed.”

“Even, we can make this!” (“Even” tends to go before lots of his explanations).

“Whew, that was a close one!”

“Mom, I ate blackberries last time but you forgot to wash them but I didn’t call for you because I don’t like calling for you. So I ate them. So I guess I am just saying sorry.”

(hahaha what? Also I did wash those blackberries….)

“Mom, I’m trying to tell you things. Can you stop talking?”

Can you stop talking? haha. Karma. This kid is just me.

“Mom, I can’t just stay in my room forever!”

“We must do (xyz)”

“We MUST look left and right before we cross the street.” (which is not ALL funny and is super safe. But just kinda how he said it that was cute). 

“O-Kay!” (Very emphatic). 

I say: “What are you going to build John?” He says: “A carwash.” I say: But you always build those.” He says: “A car wash will just work better!” Okay then. 

“Last year, one day, this weekend, I dropped it.”

“Short short long! Short short long!” (As he ran around the house doing a rhythm song he learned during a music episode… this makes my heart happy! 

“You don’t need to talk about that.”

“That’s the plan!”

“We saw that mom, one time ago, last year on a Monday.”(Referring to a fly on the window that we actually saw yesterday)

I didn’t shut the sliding glass door all the way and he says, “Mom, I was disappointed.”

“This is a famous train!” (I think he meant ‘favorite’)

“He’s gonna fall and break his muscles!” 

“You gotta ‘nect it! (connect it).”

“I totally like to.”

“Remi’s face is on my eyeballs. Do you feel it?”