At age 3 1/2, L says things daily that make me pause, smile, or laugh out loud. Here are three cute ones from today.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a casual girl. Jeans and fleecy shirts are my staples this time of year. But for church today, I dressed up a little. For me, that meant an actual skirt. I had on a red sweater, a courderoy skirt, and black leggings.
L’s first comment (after asking me what type of clothing my skirt was, since he so rarely sees me in one) was: “Mommy, why are your legs a different color today?” He seemed very interested as I explained the concept of tights. (See? I told you I’m casual.)
After he had processed the fact that I was dressed so differently this morning, L pronounced over breakfast, “Mom, you are very dressful today.”
At first, I thought he was telling me I was stressful today, and I was wondering what, exactly, I had done to stress him out before 8:00 a.m. But it turns out he was just commenting on how very fancy I was.
Dressful. I like that one.
Finally, we were wrapping up our evening by enjoying some yummy cookies that had been given to us. I asked L whether he wanted a Peanut Butter Blossom or a Buckeye.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, he made his choice.
“A butt-guy.”
He couldn’t figure out why the rest of us were laughing so hard.
After I could finally breathe again, I gave him a Buckeye and then helped him pronounce it correctly. Who knows what the preschool teachers would think when he announced that we ate a lot of butt-guys over the holidays? Better to correct that one ASAP.
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Wonderful! I do enjoy this age with Quin as well. It’s quite humbling when you sit in traffic, have someone cut you off, comment on it, and a little voice from the backseat says, “Mommy, you have to take turns.”
oo my goodness I almost peed my pants!! a “butt guy”.. buckeye totally sounds like that!
Oh my, that is too funny!
Too funny! Will had the same reaction to tights. Tells you how often I dress up, too! He was quite alarmed at first and then kept trying to pinch my legs and grab at them. I will never eat a butt-guy again without thinking of him!
I’m very happily pregnant, and comment frequently on how fat I am getting. My 3yo logically figured being fat is something that makes women happy, and when we were in Walmart…..yeah. Watching what I say now.
Love the “butt-guy”. Yes, we’re very casual too. As a seminary student, my husband had a few opportunities to preach so when he would dress in a suit it was his “preaching suit”. Then at our old church, once a month a seminary student would get a chance to preach. And our kids would pick that day’s person b/c he was wearing a preaching suit. Now when we’re out (like Kroger) and they see someone in a suit they say he’s wearing a preaching suit, only embarrassing when the person overhears!