June 1 – Daniel was pretending that dollar coins were cookies. He was naming each of their flavors and some were interesting: vanilla, chocolate, M&M, Snickers, nut, green bean, and feet smell.

June 4 – Speaking of the oven thermostat: “Is it really smart like me?” Me: “Oh no. It’s not nearly as smart as you.” Daniel: “But it’s smart? Like TiVo?”

June 4 – Tonight Daniel was really cutting a rug and I started singing the Bee Gees I Should Be Dancing. “No, Mama. Sing something I can dance to.”

June 5 – After a spoonful of lima beans: “I swallowed one and chewed the rest.”

June 5 – Me: “Why don’t you want to watch TV anymore?” Daniel: “It’s just all boring because you don’t do anything.”

June 5 – “Can I make egg salad after every nap and every night night?”

June 6 – “Does everyone like their birthday? Even bad people? Are they nice on their birthday?”

June 6 – “Tickle me into pieces.”

June 7 – Pushing the big cart at Costco

June 7 – Writing on the chalk board doors at Whole Foods

>> Watch in high quality at YouTube

June 8 – Daniel to me: “When you were a little boy did you like to take a bath when you didn’t feel good?”

June 9 – Daniel visited a our friends’ new baby

June 11 – Found this in the kitchen.

June 12  – Got the curls really going today

June 12 – Daniel was playing on the deck and out of the blue held out his hand and told me to hold it. I didn’t know what he was up to. When I took his hand he said a prayer. It was the sweetest thing.

June 18 – At a plant nursery

June 22 – “You’re a stranger, Poppy, but I love you.”

June 22 – Four-year-old revenge: “You know, there is this store that sells popsicles that taste bad. They have flavors like wood, paper, stickers, things like that. I’m going to get you one. It tastes like nose drops.”

June 23 – Daniel making a ringing noise with one of his toys: “Don’t answer that. It’s your grandmother. She’s going to try to sell you something you don’t need. Another TV.”

June 24 – Daniel tells story after story about this elusive “grandfather” of his. They are extremely tall tales and some are quite funny. “One time my grandfather wanted to know what was behind the TV, but when he pulled it out, it fell in the floor and breaked (sic). Then when he watched TV, it was only half.”

June 25 – Daniel talking to a pretend doctor on a toy phone: “That’s the only thing I can do?!? Oh man!”

June 26 – Shopping at Whole Foods

June 27 – Daniel told the waitress “I’m starving”.

June 29 – Daniel has his whole week planned out.

May 1 – “I’m all wore out from all that sleeping.”

May 2 – “I said ‘Hi’ to one of my neighbors.”

May 2 – “Mama, what is above the clouds? I know Jesus is above the clouds, but what is above Jesus?”

May 2 – “Is God beside my bed? If I cry in my bed, does He fix it?”

May 4 – Daniel, playing PacMan, having just been eaten by a ghost: “Does he like how I taste?”

May 7 – Examining the flowers outside the doctors office

May 8 – Trying another park

May 8 – I just found six dollar coins in the freezer. That’s what I’d call hard cold cash.

May 11 – Daniel: “I’m really full of water.” Me: “You drank of lot of water. You must have been thirsty.” Daniel: “I wasn’t. It just happened.”

May 11 – “Can you cuddle with me forever, all day and for the rest of my life?”

May 15 – Daniel tried his best to befriend a groundhog. I guess groundhogs don’t understand the meaning behind blowing kisses.

May 15 – Balancing boy

May 16 – Daniel’s firemen figures just performed a musical.

May 18 – Me: “Do you get cabin fever?” Daniel: “Not often. A little bit, but not very often. Poppy gets cabin fever every one nap.” Me: “What does he do about it?” Daniel: “He goes somewhere for a few minutes. Then after one nap he goes somewhere for a few minutes again.”

May 22 – Daniel added an interesting line to his prayer at nap time: “Everyone needs to be saved or the police are going to come.”

May 24 – Daniel to me: “Did you like to play in the mud when you were a little boy cause you thought it was fun?”

May 25 – I had to change plans around a bit this morning on my little sweety, which he didn’t like and upset him a bit. I apologied to him and he said, “But Mama, you have nothing to be sorry for.”

May 28 – “Mama, I’m a sweet pickle.”

May 29 – Mr Curly playing outside in the cooler weather

May 30 – Daniel playing restaurant: “What do you want?” Me: “Fried chicken.” Son: “What kind?” Me: “White meat.” Son: “We’re out of white meat. All we have is dark meat.” Now isn’t that like most servers to ask your choice when there isn’t one?

May 31 – “Was that a swell idea?”

April 1 – Daniel speaking of a toy store: “Can we go to Phillip’s today? It’s more fun than going to Kroger.”

April 1 at the park having just gone down a slide –

April 2 – Listening to Daniel sing “Doobie doobie doo” while playing at the park.

April 3 – Daniel so sweetly applied eye shadow all over one side of my face. I hated to wash it off but didn’t think Kroger was ready for the Gene Simmons look.

April 3 – Seeing Daniel talking to some much older girls at the park: “Did you talk to some girls?” Daniel: “Yeah. I said Hi to them.”

April 8 – Daniel was playing with a bendy snake and said that when it was all bent it was in German and when he straightened it back out it was in English.

April 11 – Is Daniel going to be punny? We were peeling and slicing former Easter eggs and he says, “This cracks me up.”

April 11 – Daniel asked what Jesus sounded like and I told him that the Bible didn’t say, just what he said. He said, “I think it doesn’t say because he sounds like Poppy, but isn’t Poppy.”

April 17 – At the farmer’s market

April 18 – “I need food every one nap. The toot toots let out the energy and I need to eat food to put more energy in.”

April 19 – “Mama, you’re the best.”

April 24 – Daniel: “Why do you not wear your glasses when you sleep?” Me: “Because my eyes are closed when I sleep, so I don’t need them.” Daniel: “I keep my eyes open when I sleep. I have to see my bunny. I have to know if I have the right leg.”

April 25 – “Now the nice lady is going to sing, Amy Grant.” Sings in falseto. “That wasn’t her. It was her grandfather.”

April 26 – In the car seat reading about trees

April 26 – A bit muggy, but sunny and warm

April 27 – self portrait with Leapster Explorer camera

April 27 – The comedian strikes again. “Do you need some time?” Lifts his shirt and a sand timer falls out.

April 30 – Cutie relaxing with his Leap Frog Explorer

April 30 – Climbing the rope web