April 2 – Instead of sleeping, Daniel is using a pretend leaf blower. “Woooooo wooooo wooooo. Got to get those leaf-es out.”

April 5 – I know Daniel has seen these Kipper episodes a lot when in the first three seconds he says, “Oh, the one about the kitty!”

April 8 – Daniel expressed it so well, I can’t improve upon it. After an overcast morning, the clouds suddenly parted. Daniel pointed up to the sky, “I can see the sun! The sun came out.” Then he put his hands on his cheeks and said, “I wuv the sun. It’s a beautiful day.”

April 10 – After I very stupidly back into Papa’s Jeep in our own drive way Daniel says, “No, Mama. You s’posed to go ’round.”

April 13 – Daniel: “It’s my birthday.” Me: “It will be in two weeks. What will happen on your birthday?” Daniel: “My presents will come. Santa Claus will come and put them down.”

April 14 – When an instrumental song is playing Daniel says, “Nobody’s singing.” This morning he was doing his own instrumental song with all sorts of humming and beat boxing and said, “That is Pop Goes the Weasel. Nobody’s singing it.”

April 14 – On seeing a cart someone left in a parking spot Daniel says, “What’s that cart doing? It’s not supposed to go there.”

April 15 – Daniel has been asking why questions for a long time without using the word why. The first time I know him to actually use the word, the question was “Why I have to go bed?”

April 17 – Daniel told me I had black and white hair. I assured him he was the source of the white ones.

April 18 – Several times Daniel has taken my face in his hands and looked me right in the eyes and said “I don’t want to go to the dentist.”

April 19 – “Whatcha humming, mama? Turn it up a little bit.”

April 20 – I was singing Time In A Bottle and Daniel wanted to know what time in a bottle was. I guess my explanation wasn’t cutting to the chase because he interrupted me and said, “Like kitchen thyme.”

April 20 – Daniel is so observant. At the Wal-mart Neighborhood Market he said, “They not have music.” I hadn’t noticed it before, but they don’t.

April 21 – found all the parts of a disassembled flashlight in a laundry basket under towels.

April 21 – on looking at a guinea pig, “He has pretty eyes.” Looking at a ferret, “He has beautiful hair.” For those of you familiar with Elmo – he pointed to the goldfish tank and said “those are Dorothys” and pointed at a black moor “and that’s a black Dorothy”.

April 22 – Poor Daniel poked at a beetle and it grasped the tip of his pointer finger with it’s pinchers. Daniel started shaking his finger and frantically saying, “Get that off! Get that off!”

April 25 – Daniel’s salon is open and ready for business. First he “blended” my hair with a foreign electrical outlet adapter. Then he finished it off with a bag clip.

April 25 – The last time we saw Aunt Christina, my son got some pine cones out of her yard. This morning he said, “Want to go see Aunt Christina. My pine cones are all wore out.”

April 25 – Took Daniel to the basement kitchen to get something out of the freezer. On seeing the kitchen sink he said, “That’s a sink. That’s where the kitties wash their hands.”

April 26 – knew the nap wasn’t happening when I started hearing the ukulele on the monitor.

April 27 – After having lots of storms this spring, Daniel has become very familiar with radar maps. “I don’t want to see Bugs Bunny! Just the weather!” Then later I asked, “Would you rather watch Kipper or Caillou?” Daniel: “Just watch the weather.”

April 28 – Daniel: “It’s my birthday now.” Me: “Yes, so what does that mean.” Daniel: “Not my bedtime.”

April 29 – In a part of town with lots of sandwich shops, Daniel asks me “What is that store?” about each one, and then curious about how there could be so many stores with sandwiches. I explain that sandwiches can be made out of all kinds of things, to which he replies, “Where is the green bean sandwich store?”

April 30 – Speaking of his birthday presents that were out when he woke up this morning Daniel says, “Santa Claus came while I was asleep.”