Quotable Quotes – April 2011


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.”



Quotable Quotes – March 2011


March 6 – the future chef, tasting some oregano, “hmm, that’s like thyme.”

March 7 – in the car listening to one of his Wiggles CDs when an instrumental song came on. “Not anybody singing. Where is anybody? Maybe they eat lunch.”

March 13 – There are 11 clocks in the house and Daniel is supervising the springing forward of all of them. He can tell you all about all the clocks, if they are battery operated or plug in the wall and if they are digital or analog.

March 14 – Daniel eats green beans by first removing the little beans inside and eating them (he calls them “magic beans” a la Jack and the Beanstalk) then eating the green beans and saying “I’m eating their houses”.

March 15 – “The Wiggles not singing this song. They’re eating fruit salad.”

March 15 – Me: “Where did you get your curly hair?” Daniel: “Curly hair store” Me: “Where is the curly hair store?” Daniel: “In Walgreens”

March 18 – playing with a rubber bug asked me where it’s “eye browns” were.

March 24 – It is most likely some sort of commentary on me that much of my son’s pretend play involves getting coffee at drive-thru windows.

March 27 – playing with a box of envelopes says he’s going to “buy” one and puts it on my postage scale. Then he says “Fifteen years old.”

March 31 – The first thing out of Daniel’s mouth this morning when he woke was “Caillou, Caillou, Caillou, That’s me!”



Quotable Quotes – February 2011


February 2 – Daniel asks me why raw vegetables are hard and if they have bones. Sometimes explaining science in two-year-old terms is a challenge. It was easier to explain Groundhog’s Day.

February 6 – Daniel opens a Bible and says “Once upon a time there were three bears. The Bible tells me so. The end.”

February 14 – “It not Valentines Day. It Mama day.”

Daniel can request some interesting things on You Tube. What’s funny, is when I can actually find some of them. February 20 he wanted to see a goose eat a watermelon. Actually found it!

February 22 – “Let me play with my flashlight. Let me flash you. I’m flashing.”



Quotable Quotes – January 2011


Daniel is so busy these days that I don’t get as many pictures and videos as I used to. I do try to jot down some of the cute things he says. To make up for the lack of other things on the blog, I will start trying to post monthly recaps of his quips and stories. I will start at the beginning of this year and get caught up.

Daniel loves to learn. He asks questions about everything. And one way we help him learn about things he’s asking questions about is to show him You Tube videos of the topics he’s currently interested in. In January the hot topic was cooking. He would sit and watch cooking videos for up to an hour at a time.

January 7 – I just told Daniel he was cute and he replied “Yes, I am. I am smart boy.”

January 8 – Daniel was running up and down the hall and Papa was teasing him saying “He’s crazy. He’s crazy.” Daniel stops and says, “I’m not crazy. I’m just pretending.”

January 10 – Daniel looking out the window at the snow: “Don’t see anybody. Just snow.”

Daniel helps me prepare food and he’s actually quite good at it. January 18 he said, “Mama is great chef.” I told him he was a great chef. He replied, “Mama is great chef, too.”

Daniel has a very active imagination and sometimes he comes up with some wild stuff. January 20 he sits in his little rocking chair and is holding a book titled Christian Doctrine upside down. He says “Read this story book. Once upon a time.” Mutter, mutter, mutter. “The end.” He closes the book and says, “this about six mamas.”

January 22 – After presenting his Papa with several of Mama’s shoes and announcing “Here is Papa shoe” and being informed that this was in fact Mama’s shoe, he says “Where are Papa’s shoes?”

January 23 – Daniel woke from his nap worrying that the soup we worked on in the crock pot earlier needed more salt.

January 27 – Daniel wanted me to peel a sticker off the dining room table. While I’m carefully trying to do that he says, “That’s a tough nut.”



Visiting the Ducks


When Daniel and I were getting out of the car to visit the ducks today, they all ran up to meet us. At first Daniel was concerned about it. I told the ducks I was sorry I had not brought them any food. For the whole rest of the visit, any duck that showed Daniel any attention, he would crouch in front of it and in the most syrupy sweet voice say, “I am so sorry I didn’t bring you any food.”

I only had my phone with me, so these aren’t the best pictures, but thought I would share them anyway.

Daniel also walked around a dirt filled well.



The First 2011 Zoo Trip


Daniel went to the zoo today with Poppy and Mama. Daniel rode in style in his red wagon.

Daniel enjoyed watching all the little waterfalls that are at the zoo as much as any of the animals. He also liked the fish.

Daniel saw a goat up close and personal.



Morning at the playground


This is one of Daniel’s favorite playgrounds. This morning he played here for a long time. When we first arrived, we were the only ones there, so had the whole place to ourselves.

These mazes are really neat and Daniel has a lot of fun in them. He likes these swinging stairs.



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He’s having so much fun in the mazes he can’t help but sing Old MacDonald very loud.



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Sometimes it’s fun to play on a bench that goes around a tree, although it wasn’t really part of the play equipment.



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He has his own way of playing with a tire swing.



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He’s still not sure about swings.



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Mother’s Day Card


Daniel has really gotten into watercolors lately. He watercolored this beautiful card for me for Mother’s Day.



Cicada


“Mama, what’s this funny bug?” I go to look, and it’s our first 2011 cicada.

Daniel watched as the cicada made it’s way toward the nearest tree. He gently touched it a few times.

He followed as it made it’s way up the tree.



Third Birthday Party


Papa decorated the kitchen.

Papa also got Daniel some great balloons.

Daniel discovered his birthday balloons Saturday morning. The 3 is as big as he is.



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Here’s a birthday grin in anticipation of opening presents.

Daniel is examining his new camera. Near are his new computer and new sandwich kit.

Daniel becomes a complete ham with his new microphone that records and plays back.



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Daniel blows out his candle after a few tries. He adds a toot on his new train whistle at the end of the birthday song.



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Daniel loves his squash cake.

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