May 2 – had a great lunch at LongHorn Steakhouse. At one point he turned to me with a big grin and said, “I’m humming Winnie the Pooh.”

May 3 – blowing on his new wooden whistle with his hand over the hole, therefore not producing results. He declared, “The batteries are dead.”

May 5 – thoroughly amused the attendant at the Whole Foods self checkout as he carefully located the UPS on each item and scanned it, and then successfully swiped my credit card on his first attempt.

May 7 – Happy mother’s day as only a three-year-old can tell you: “Mama, why your face cracked?”

May 7 – Me: “Do you remember what clouds are made of?” Son: “Water” Me: “What happens when they get really full of water?” Son: “They turn on the faucet and it rains.”

May 9 – Finding an empty cicada shell prompted some funny comments: “Where is that naked cicada? Where is a not naked cicada? Let that spider wear this.”

May 11 – Daniel was standing on a table next to me, so a little taller than me. He kissed me on the forehead, patted me on the head and said, “You are a beautiful Mama.”

May 12 – Cicada from a three-year-old’s perspective: “He has nice red eyes.” Touching a cicada: “I’m making that cicada walk.”

May 13 – Ate at Daniel’s favorite meat-n-three and the little man ordered all by himself. I gave him the tab and a $20 and went to the register and paid by himself too!

May 17 – Daniel has been sick. Despite it he’s been so sweet and poetic: “I love Lowes. I love mailboxes and trees and I love you.”

May 18 – Daniel taking a stab at predicting the plot on his first viewing of Pinocchio: “Jiminy Cricket gonna have ears in a minute.”

May 20 – The roofers are playing mariachi music. Daniel says, “They want to listen to Wiggles.”

May 23 – In Daniel’s bedtime prayer, he thanked God for drawers, Mimi, Poppy, Papa, the kitties and doors.

May 26 – Daniel, emphatically: “My name is NOT Babe.”